An undead horror shambles along in Fortnite.
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In Fortnite, you’ll be chopping wood while the zombies are tearing you apart

Epic Games has finally given us a hands-on demo of Fortnite, its zombie fort-defense shooter game that has been in the works for four years.

The title is the latest flagship for Unreal Engine 4 technology, which is Epic’s game development platform that is used by huge numbers of developers. The third-person shooter game is entering closed beta testing this winter on Windows and Mac. Fortnite is very hard to categorize, and that is probably a good thing for Epic. It is a bunch of games in one. It is a gathering and building game. It’s a role-playing game, and it’s a third-person shooter game with cooperative play.

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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.