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Fortnite’s long outage is a lucky break for just-launched rival Radical Heights

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Fortnite just weathered an emergency maintenance outage that last more than half a day. Epic Games apologized and said that issues related to logging into accounts and playing matches have now been resolved.

The outage shows it isn’t easy to maintain one of the most popular games in the world, and that it can be a big opportunity for rivals in the ultra-competitive battle royale genre when one of the big games goes down.

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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.