Fortnite OG arrives on December 6.
Fortnite OG arrives on December 6.
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Fortnite OG takes players back to the beginning on December 6

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Fortnite OG is launching tomorrow, and Epic Games promises this original version of the battle royale game is here to stay.

Fortnite OG is a remake of the original, meaning the game will take players all the way back to day one of Season 1 of Fortnite Battle Royale. It will be always on, every day, for players to relive the origins of Fortnite, which has become a huge juggernaut with hundreds of millions of players to date.

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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.