Fortnite is about to get much more gaming crossovers

Fortnite goes to be getting quite a bit extra crossovers that includes characters from video video games. As a part of the Epic Games Store’s year in review for 2025, Epic shared particulars about its official program for builders that can give individuals who buy their recreation on the Epic Games Store a associated beauty they will use inside Fortnite.

Eventually, the objective is to scale this system to “over 100 partnerships per year,” Epic Games Store GM Steve Allison stated on X last month. In an interview with The Verge, Allison says that there might be “about 40” this 12 months and “60-plus” up to now set for 2027. The program begins with Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem, which launches on February twenty seventh, and different publishers with crossovers within the works embody miHoYo, Pearl Abyss, S-Game, MintRocket, and Kakao Games.

“It’ll help a bunch of our partners, and it’ll be cool for our players,” Allison says about this system. But it advantages Epic, too; gamers is perhaps extra keen to purchase a recreation on the Epic Games Store as a substitute of Steam due to a Fortnite tie-in, and extra individuals making extra purchases on the Epic Games Store may make the platform extra interesting for builders and publishers normally.

In its 12 months in evaluation, Epic additionally highlighted how participant spending in third-party PC video games grew 57 % 12 months over 12 months to an “all-time record” of $400 million. The platform noticed an all-time file of 78 million month-to-month energetic customers on PC, too. And customers claimed 662 million titles by way of Epic’s free video games program, which Allison says will proceed by way of 2026. “It’s basically our marketing budget,” he says.

This 12 months, Epic is planning to make some updates to the Epic Games Store launcher on PC, together with rebuilding the underlying structure as a part of a string of enhancements it plans to ship this summer time. The launcher has been criticized for being slow, and the enhancements ought to result in sooner load instances and higher stability, in line with Epic. “We know the criticism,” Allison says. “We don’t disagree with it.” He says that Epic needs the app to really feel “instant” and “snappy.”

Epic can be nonetheless invested in its efforts with its cell shops. The cell Epic Games Store has seen greater than 50 million installs, Allison says, which is a far cry from the 100 million it was concentrating on by the tip of 2024. “We expected more,” in line with Allison, however the friction from scare screens is the “real deal.” (He’s stated as a lot earlier than.) Still, Epic is planning to launch the shop in Japan in March and Brazil in June due to regulatory adjustments in these nations.