{"id":158503,"date":"2019-08-27T23:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1801790\/"},"modified":"2019-08-27T23:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T15:45:40","slug":"with-borderlands-crossover-fortnite-just-advertises-other-games-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/27\/with-borderlands-crossover-fortnite-just-advertises-other-games-now\/","title":{"rendered":"With \u2018Borderlands\u2019 Crossover, \u2018Fortnite\u2019 Just Advertises Other Games Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fortnite-borderlands-650x366.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p><em>Fortnite<\/em> is so big that we\u2019re frankly bored of reperating how big it is. Epic constantly cranks away at the battle royale to make sure it makes all the money in the world, but what if they\u2019ve already achieved that goal? What\u2019s next? Well the latest event may give us the answer. With its <em>Borderlands<\/em> crossover <em>Fortnite<\/em>\u00a0uses its lofty perch to just straight-up promote other video games now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dB8OkmyMrTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Fortnite X Mayhem<\/em> is a new limited challenge included in Season X. In this <em>Borderlands<\/em> mashup players travel to a Rift Zone based on Pandora, the primary planet of Gearbox\u2019s loot shooter. In Pandora you can spawn if a shield if you avoid getting hit. And you can get gear based on sassy robot Claptrap and the Psycho mascot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fortnite x Borderlands<\/em> makes a certain amount of sense. Both shooters share a colorful irreverent tone, even if <em>Borderlands<\/em> pushes things towards M-rated <em>Deadpool<\/em> territory. But it\u2019s the business potential that\u2019s most interesting to us. Previous <em>Fortnite<\/em> crossovers advertised big movies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/avengers-endgame-comes-to-fortnite-1784465\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Avengers: Endgame<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/fortnites-john-wick-mode-is-the-deadliest-crossover-yet-1787460\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>John Wick 3<\/em><\/a>\u00a0right before they released. Advertising a big game though to an audience that already cares about game is something else entirely. Plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/borderlands-3-gives-you-ungodly-amount-of-guns-this-september-1781341\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Borderlands 3<\/em><\/a>\u00a0runs on Epic\u2019s Unreal Engine and is an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. Reminds us of the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/pubg-finally-hits-ps4-with-exclusive-sony-skins-1760693\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>PUBG <\/em>included <em>Uncharted <\/em>skins<\/a> for its PS4 release.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fortnite X Mayhem<\/em> begins September 10. Borderlands 3 releases on September 13. But no matter what game you play, we just hope we don\u2019t need to see any more of Randy Pitchford\u2019s magic tricks. For more on <em>Fortnite<\/em> learn about the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/fortnite-world-champion-teen-made-more-money-than-all-of-us-1797918\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fortnite<\/em> world champion<\/a>\u00a0get angry about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/get-used-to-fortnites-powerful-mech-suits-1800375\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">overpowered robot suits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Borderlands-3-PlayStation-4\/dp\/B07Q39DBJY\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1705462 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SEE_IT_HERE_GEEK-1.jpg?resize=178%2C51&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"51\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fortnite-borderlands-650x366.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fortnite is so big that we&rsquo;re frankly bored of reperating how big it is. Epic constantly cranks away at the battle royale to make sure it makes all the money in the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/with-borderlands-crossover-fortnite-just-advertises-other-games-now-1801790\/\">With &lsquo;Borderlands&rsquo; Crossover, &lsquo;Fortnite&rsquo; Just Advertises Other Games Now<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/27\/with-borderlands-crossover-fortnite-just-advertises-other-games-now\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4316,2421,2711,2054,4318,2,2047,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-Fev","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}