Epic Games is debuting a new Ferrari car in Fortnite.
Epic Games is debuting a new Ferrari car in Fortnite.
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Epic Games crafts a highly realistic and drivable Ferrari for Fortnite

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games is launching a highly realistic model of a Ferrari sports car for players to use in Fortnite tomorrow. The imagery of the Ferrari 296 GTB car provided by Epic and Ferrari suggest it’s going to look better than anything else in the game.

That might be a little jarring for players who see a cartoon-like environment throughout the game and then see this realistic car zip past them in the middle of a battle royale match. But clearly this serves some of Epic Games’ own goals for Fortnite, which Epic hopes will one day be the prime gateway for the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.