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After a week of blowback, Epic Games has addressed a recent change that allowed Fortnite Creative builders to offer in-game purchases on their islands. Almost immediately after the feature went live, ...

Fortnite developer Epic Games has detailed how it will soon allow third-party sellers to offer "paid random items" within the game's creator-made modes — something that opens the door to loot boxes, ...

Epic Games’ potential addition of ‘paid random items’, or loot boxes, to me and you, has caused uproar amongst Fortnite players who, by their own definition, have probably spent their whole life ...