Fortnite is back, and Epic is apologizing with in-game gifts

Fortnite is coming off of a rough day of constant outages across all platforms. Players on mobile, consoles, and PC were unable to get into matches of the battle royale shooter throughout last night and into this morning. Developer Epic Games was able to get it back up and running, but it acknowledged that fans had to endure many hours of frustration. As part of an effort to apologize, the company is planning to offer up some free items in the near future.

“We messed up here,” reads an Epic blog post. “For Battle Royale players, this weekend we’ll be offering a Back Bling gift that you can pick up in the store for free. For our Save the World folks, this weekend we will be offering a Troll Stash Llama in the store for free.”