ESPN is launching a game inside Fortnite
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6RTXF)
Image: Disney Disney is releasing an experience tied to Fortnite - but it's not the big persistent universe" featuring all things Disney that was teased earlier this year. This new experience launching today is instead all about ESPN, and it's called ESPN Football Island.
In the experience, you'll be able to participate in activities, challenges, mini-games, and a big Payload-style game called Touchdown Rush" where you guard a football from your opponents as it moves toward an end zone. ESPN Football Island will also have persistent progression and its own unlockable cosmetics that will be exclusive to the experience.
ESPN Football Island was built using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), a powerful set of development tools Epic launched last...