Fortnite's celebrating its one year anniversary with a huge birthday party
Did somebody say cake?
Fortnite is celebrating its first birthday this week with an in-game event and bountiful prizes. Epic Games has a lot to celebrate this year. The insanely popular battle royale game has raked in $1 billion in in-game purchases since Fortnite’s debut.
The Battle Bus in Battle Royale mode is getting a festive makeover for the event, along with several new Birthday Challenges which, upon completion, will reward you with a number of special anniversary goodies. Here’s the breakdown provided by Epic:
- Deal 1,000 damage to opponents to unlock the Fortnite Birthday! Emoticon
- Dance at different birthday cakes to unlock the Happy Birthday! Spray
- Play 14 matches to unlock 5,000 XP.
- Complete all 3 challenges to earn the Birthday Cake Back Bling
Once that’s finished, you can move on over to Save the World, where completing the new Birthday quest line will earn you the Birthday Brigade Ramirez Hero. You’ll also find sploder husks carting birthday cakes and Birthday Llamas filled with Heroes and weapons from events held in the past year.
It’s all going down on July 24. You can play Fortnite right now on iOS and Nintendo Switch.