Fortnite teases epic Futurama collaboration

Fortnite has revealed a partnership with Futurama, and followers are keen to seek out out extra about what’s in retailer.

It’s widespread for corporations to work collectively and cross-promote their merchandise or manufacturers.

Fortnite is a recreation that has all the time performed this, bringing in lots of well-known characters from completely different franchises to the favored battle royale recreation.

It has additionally allowed for unlikely crossovers between characters that will usually be rivals, similar to Sony’s Kratos and Xbox’s Master Chief.

There have been leaks suggesting that Family Guy’s Peter Griffin and his nemesis the hen can be added to the inventive battle royale. It’s unclear if this can be a joke by Epic or if it should really occur, however some followers of the grownup cartoon have been trying ahead to this collab for a while.

However, evidently this received’t be a part of the following replace, however as an alternative, characters from one other well-known grownup cartoon present may be coming to Fortnite quickly.

The official Fortnite Twitter account introduced a collaboration with Futurama with a really transient tweet. The tweet had a hyperlink to a video that may premiere on YouTube on July 26 at 6 AM ET, and it solely stated “All Hail Hypnotoad.”

It additionally confirmed a brief video of the Planet Express ship from Futurama crashing into an enormous animated billboard with a clip of Hypnotoad itself. Update v25.12 was supposed to come back out on Tuesday, July 25, like most Fortnite updates, nevertheless it was surprisingly postponed. Because of this postponement, the Duos Cash Cup, which was scheduled for Wednesday, needed to be moved to Tuesday to keep away from gamers having to take care of downtime throughout the competitors. The motive why Epic Games determined to delay the replace remains to be unknown, nevertheless it might need one thing to do with some last preparations for this collab.

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Fans will quickly uncover extra about what’s coming. The video will go reside within the early hours of July 26 to unveil what the Futurama collab will entail. Since there may be an announcement tweet, it’s seemingly that will probably be an enormous occasion, particularly because the Fortnite Summer Escape occasion has ended after two weeks of festivities. Players can count on some Futurama-themed skins, perhaps a change to the large display in Mega City, and probably some futuristic area weapons.