Fortnite is planning skins for LeBron James and The Rock, documents show
An internal Epic document from June 2020 shows plans to announce the first-ever sports event in Party Royale" An internal presentation at Epic Games showed ambitious promotional plans for the game, including a basketball mini-game and a planned Party Royale" featuring Zion Williamson and LeBron James. Made public as part of the ongoing Epic v. Apple trial, the document comes from a quarterly business review performed in June 2020.
In addition to detailing the game's revenue and promotional outlook, the presentation lays out a new kind of experimental" venture to be built inside of Fortnite, including plans to implement a basketball mini-game as part of a broader NBA partnership.
One slide describes the project as a Fortnite version of arcade basketball," which would allow players to take to the courts as an alternative to the traditional...