{"id":2097115,"date":"2026-08-17T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2097115"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:17:55","slug":"it-looks-like-fortnite-is-getting-a-roblox-collaboration-months-after-epic-boss-tim-sweeney-referred-to-the-rival-game-as-a-force-that-could-grow-and-eat-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2097115","title":{"rendered":"It looks like Fortnite is getting a Roblox collaboration, months after Epic boss Tim Sweeney referred to the rival game as a force that could &#8220;grow and eat gaming&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">It looks like Fortnite is getting a Roblox collaboration, months after Epic boss Tim Sweeney referred to the rival game as a force that could &#8220;grow and eat gaming&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Deer me.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Roblox-in-fortnite.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A swathe of video games characters, such as Crash Bandicoot, Mega Man, the Deer from 99 Nights in the Forest, Lara Croft, and more, in front of a big sign saying &apos;Fortnite&apos;\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Roblox-in-fortnite.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer\/Epic<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/dom-peppiatt\">Dom Peppiatt<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Deputy Editorial Director<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"updated_at\">\n<p>Updated on   <time datetime=\"2026-08-17T09:17:55+00:00\" data-auto-time-zone=\"true\" data-year=\"numeric\" data-month=\"short\" data-day=\"numeric\" data-hour=\"numeric\" data-minute=\"numeric\">Aug. 17, 2026, 9:17 a.m.<\/time>\n              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fortnite-chapter-7-season-4-roblox-gaming-legends?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          8 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"a8888b6d-5bc0-480f-a9ef-1f57b9dc36eb\" data-name=\"Fortnite\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Fortnite\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Fortnite\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Fortnite\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Fortnite\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Fortnite\" title=\"Follow Fortnite\"><br \/>\n  Follow Fortnite<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> is getting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/roblox\">Roblox<\/a> crossover. In the latest upcoming season of the game &#8211; named Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override &#8211; the world&#8217;s biggest battle royale introduces a wealth of gaming properties to its world. Developer Epic&#8217;s first trailer for the new season (below) shows off a slew of gaming characters from all eras: you&#8217;ve got Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog and his pal Tails, Joker from Persona 5, Mega Man, Kitana and Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, and more.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, key art for the season &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fortnite\/status\/2089034556079046669\">which you can see on X\/Twitter<\/a> &#8211; includes many more characters from games across the decades: Pac-Man, Street Fighter&#8217;s Blanka, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sora from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/kingdom-hearts\">Kingdom Hearts<\/a>, Lara Croft, and Geralt from The Witcher. Epic is clearly going all-in with the gaming nostalgia for this one.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>How many gaming references can you see in the trailer?<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T0Be3IXwD3Y\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But one addition stands out more than any other. It&#8217;s pretty much assumed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/i-hate-the-ready-player-one-ification-of-all-our-favourite-media-but-cant-resist-the-simpsons-in-fortnite\">Epic gets licenses to the biggest brands in the world<\/a>, but in both the trailer and the key art, you can spot the deer from Roblox&#8217;s viral hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/99-nights-in-the-forest-codes\">99 Nights in the Forest<\/a>. Why is this notable? Because  it was only a few months ago that the Epic boss who oversaw Fortnite&#8217;s meteoric rise, Tim Sweeney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/epic-games-tim-sweeney-state-of-unreal-comments-games-industry\">called out Roblox as a force that threatens to swallow all of the games industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One view of the future is that Roblox grows and eats gaming,&#8221; Sweeney said. &#8220;A lot of people are saying this online. What you have there is a centralised platform that has a single &#8216;gatekeeper&#8217; that commoditises everything and takes more than 70 percent of revenue generated by 450 million users. So that&#8217;s a real challenge to game developers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, despite Sweeney&#8217;s comments, it seems there&#8217;s not enough bad blood between Epic and Roblox to preclude representation in this big, gaming-focused season of Fortnite. Perhaps this collaboration is an attempt at leveraging Roblox&#8217;s huge (and invested) playerbase as a way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fortnite-still-biggest-game-in-the-world-but-playtime-dropped-in-2025\">to reverse Fortnite&#8217;s tumbling total playtime<\/a>, or an experiment to see how many more people Epic can attract to the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fortnite-producer-comments-on-mass-layoffs-march-2026\">to offset the losses it&#8217;s experiencing from its most recent round of layoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>99 Nights in the Forest is a game that exists within Roblox&#8217;s platform. It&#8217;s a sort-of horror experience in which players must explore a secluded forest where it&#8217;s reported children have gone missing. You build a camp and try to find the missing kids, enduring 99 nights in the hostile environment and avoiding a creepy deer that stalks you. The game was released with Roblox on 4th March, 2025, and has since become one of the platform&#8217;s most-played games (and given Roblox attracted 123 million players last quarter, that&#8217;s really something).<\/p>\n<p>Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override will begin on 20th August.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> is getting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/roblox\">Roblox<\/a> crossover. In the latest upcoming season of the game &#8211; named Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override &#8211; the world&#8217;s biggest battle royale introduces a wealth of gaming properties to its world. Developer Epic&#8217;s first trailer for the new season (below) shows off a slew of gaming characters from all eras: you&#8217;ve got Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog and his pal Tails, Joker from Persona 5, Mega Man, Kitana and Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, and more.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, key art for the season &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fortnite\/status\/2089034556079046669\">which you can see on X\/Twitter<\/a> &#8211; includes many more characters from games across the decades: Pac-Man, Street Fighter&#8217;s Blanka, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sora from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/kingdom-hearts\">Kingdom Hearts<\/a>, Lara Croft, and Geralt from The Witcher. Epic is clearly going all-in with the gaming nostalgia for this one.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>How many gaming references can you see in the trailer?<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T0Be3IXwD3Y\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But one addition stands out more than any other. It&#8217;s pretty much assumed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/i-hate-the-ready-player-one-ification-of-all-our-favourite-media-but-cant-resist-the-simpsons-in-fortnite\">Epic gets licenses to the biggest brands in the world<\/a>, but in both the trailer and the key art, you can spot the deer from Roblox&#8217;s viral hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/99-nights-in-the-forest-codes\">99 Nights in the Forest<\/a>. Why is this notable? Because  it was only a few months ago that the Epic boss who oversaw Fortnite&#8217;s meteoric rise, Tim Sweeney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/epic-games-tim-sweeney-state-of-unreal-comments-games-industry\">called out Roblox as a force that threatens to swallow all of the games industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One view of the future is that Roblox grows and eats gaming,&#8221; Sweeney said. &#8220;A lot of people are saying this online. What you have there is a centralised platform that has a single &#8216;gatekeeper&#8217; that commoditises everything and takes more than 70 percent of revenue generated by 450 million users. So that&#8217;s a real challenge to game developers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, despite Sweeney&#8217;s comments, it seems there&#8217;s not enough bad blood between Epic and Roblox to preclude representation in this big, gaming-focused season of Fortnite. Perhaps this collaboration is an attempt at leveraging Roblox&#8217;s huge (and invested) playerbase as a way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fortnite-still-biggest-game-in-the-world-but-playtime-dropped-in-2025\">to reverse Fortnite&#8217;s tumbling total playtime<\/a>, or an experiment to see how many more people Epic can attract to the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fortnite-producer-comments-on-mass-layoffs-march-2026\">to offset the losses it&#8217;s experiencing from its most recent round of layoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>99 Nights in the Forest is a game that exists within Roblox&#8217;s platform. It&#8217;s a sort-of horror experience in which players must explore a secluded forest where it&#8217;s reported children have gone missing. You build a camp and try to find the missing kids, enduring 99 nights in the hostile environment and avoiding a creepy deer that stalks you. The game was released with Roblox on 4th March, 2025, and has since become one of the platform&#8217;s most-played games (and given Roblox attracted 123 million players last quarter, that&#8217;s really something).<\/p>\n<p>Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override will begin on 20th August.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News It looks like Fortnite is getting a Roblox collaboration, months after Epic boss Tim Sweeney referred to the rival game as a force that could &#8220;grow and eat gaming&#8221; Deer me. 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