If you have updated Fortnite Yesterday you probably noticed that half of the island is now covered in snow, angry gingerbread men are scattered around, and a giant ice monolith rises from a hill. Leakers claim so [checks reality] Will Mariah Carey emerge from within?
Fortnite has boasted some very strange tie-ups in the past, and has recently reached an insane peak with so many IPs and franchises involved at once that in October, people dressed as Edward Scissorhands and Jason Voorhees came along with help of the weapons raised against Doctor Doom Iron Man. Come November, you could face off against Snoop Dogg and Eminem while wearing a brand new pair of Nikes on your amorphous blob creature. It's a corporate soup of cameos and crossovers that can seem pretty gross from the outside. And now Mariah Carey, of all people, could get involved?
I recently converted to it Fortnitelured in by my 10 year old who had made the lazy (but understandable) mistake of thinking it was just a cacophony of cartoon noise. It turns out that despite the corporate ties and embarrassing celebrity endorsements, it's a pretty darn solid online shooter. I really enjoy playing, preferably in a duo with the boy, but I also spend a lot of time playing alone. I've found that thanks to some excellent parkour-like moves (which were even improved in the final season with wall climbing, fancy landings, and samurai sword-induced double jumps), excellent shooting, and a wide variety of approaches, the game got into my groove.
That doesn't mean the corporate nonsense is annoying fewerbut once you look through the mirror you can at least understand why people put up with it. And…sometimes it's fun?
Given that November's shorter so-called “Remix” season (which brought back the map and dismal weapons of season two) featured Snoop, Ice Spice, Eminem and Juice Wrld, the idea of Mariah Carey emerging could hide in a huge block of ice (as she apparently does so often) doesn't seem very far-fetched. Hell, at the end of Remix there was a (mind-blowing) slightly interactive event where an Ice Spice the size of a skyscraper performed a gig in New York City while the gigantic Eminems competed against each other and a Juice Wrld the size of the sun. The system sang as players jumped around the rings of Saturn. After that, it's hard to rule anything out.
Anyway, this is what the leakers say will happen in just a few days:
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