Karol G is the icon for Fortnite Festival Season 5.
Karol G is the icon for Fortnite Festival Season 5.
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Grammy winner Karol G will be music icon for Fortnite Festival Season 5

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games announced that Fortnite Festival Season 5 (the music world of the shooter game Fortnite) will feature Grammy winner Karol G.

Fresh off her historic stadium world tour, the global pop culture powerhouse Karol G will be the new Icon for the season. With her electrifying spirit of empowerment and superstar talent as a singer-songwriter, Karol G has broken down barriers of genre and culture to achieve crossover success and international acclaim.

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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.