With the launch of Chapter 2, Epic Games has decided to multiply its partnerships with artists, particularly from the music industry. In Fortnite, it was Travis Scott's virtual concert that recently made an impression. The publisher doesn't intend to stop there. Through Patch 12.61, dataminers have found a file related to an emote specific to Drake.
At the time of writing, it's difficult to know the extent of this collaboration. Will the rapper's skin be released in-game too? For the moment only the emote is planned.
In any case, this collaboration is historic, as Fortnite had never allied itself with an artist who was so famous. Thanks to his song Hotline Bling — a song that is also known in the gaming world because it gave birth to one — Drake was one of the first rappers in the world to reach the billion views on YouTube.
Original content by Romain "Zorg" Becquelin.
Be it lack of communication between players and the studio or a more general bad state of the game, Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins explained during one of his streams on Mixer how Epic Games "disconnected" from its fans.
