Some movie and TV stories, described to someone who hasn’t seen them, invariably sound cooler than they are. (Just try to sum up the plot of Disney Plus’ The Acolyte without sounding like you’re trying to sell it.) Others are just never going to sound like good ideas, no matter how well they’re executed. Scott […]

Fortnite Festival, the game’s Rock Band-like music mode where you play along with real songs, is getting local multiplayer for up to four people on PlayStation and Xbox on January 14th.

Currently, you can only play Fortnite Festival multiplayer online, but with this change, you’ll be able to get your former Rock Band back together and jam out on the same TV screen — well, with a major asterisk. Fortnite Festival currently only supports certain Rock Band guitar controllers, so if you’re on vocals or drums, you’ll be relegated to playing on a controller.

Epic Games didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment about when drum kit or microphone support might be added to Fortnite Festival.

The new local multiplayer mode is being added as part of season 7 of Fortnite Festival. The featured artist for the season is rumored to be virtual pop star Hatsune Miku — and Epic Games is has already dropped a hint that she might be joining Fortnite soon.

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Recursive Destruction allows you to restore terrain and objects to their original form in Marvel Rivals. Recursive Destruction is a new feature that is unique to the Midtown map, and you must trigger it to complete a mission from the Midnight Features seasonal event. As it’s a new and unique feature, it can be quite […]

As multiple wildfires rage around the Los Angeles area, the Final Fantasy 14 team has decided to delay the game’s automatic housing demolition on North American servers so that players affected by the disaster, and therefore unable to log into the game, won’t lose their digital homes. The auto-demolition counter was suspended for the Aether, […]