Fortnite was released in July of 2017 by Epic Games with it taking the gaming world by storm with its unique building mechanics, a less violent and more animated look, and simpler game mechanics compared to the other big battle royale of the time, PUBG. It has since had over 650 million downloads and has made more than $26 billion as of 2025.
Fortnite was released in July of 2017 by Epic Games with it taking the gaming world by storm with its unique building mechanics, a less violent and more animated look, and simpler game mechanics compared to the other big battle royale of the time, PUBG. It has since had over 650 million downloads and has made more than $26 billion as of 2025.
Fortnite has gone through many phases over the last nine years from Star Wars, Robots, Anime, Pirates, Marvel and many more but it’s the latter two that are returning in the new update. The update is OG season eight with the return of 3 POI’s including Lazy Lagoon, the pirate cannons for map traversal, flint-knock pistol, poison dart traps and even treasure maps.
With all of that out of the way only the biggest part of the remains, that being the most requested limited time mode Fortnite has ever had which hasn’t graced the game since 2019, Marvel Endgame. In this mode the players are split between two teams, the Avengers versus the Chitauri and Thanos. The Chitauri have 150 lives to collect all five infinity stones to power up Thanos, once they are all collected the Avengers no longer get respawns and have only their current lives to defeat Thanos once and for all.
My favorite part of the original version of this season was the Avengers mode because when it came out it not only did it coincide with the original Marvel Endgame movie but was also one of the few modern Marvel games at the time that wasn’t Spider-Man. Because of that it let you experience and control more of the characters from the Marvel cast than ever before. I also fondly remember everyone rushing towards the infinity gauntlet at the beginning of the match to fight over who would be Thanos and how great it felt when you got it instead of the 49 other people around.
I would say that now is a great time to get back into the game if you haven’t played in a while with all the new content, especially if you miss the olden days of the game or are hankering for more Marvel themed PVP.
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