And now, with this latest addition, a team-based shooter called Fortnite Ballistic, Epic has its sights ... it shows the devs’ ambition to bring a new kind of player to the game.

Fortnite's new Ballistic mode is thriving with over 259.7k concurrent players, making it more popular than the game's popular battle royale mode. The newest Fortnite update also added text chat ...

and goes head to head with an entirely new genre similar to Call of Duty, with Fortnite twists. That mode is Fortnite Ballistic, available today to try out, where you play 5v5 matches in first person.

In its announcement for the mode, Epic describes Ballistic as being "early access," rather than a fully featured new mode. That tracks with the fact that Ballistic will have just a single map at ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's unveiling of his new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile and statements about its strength have left questions about how the weapon will change the ...

Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge. There are definitely issues with Ballistic. The game kicked me back to the lobby three times while I was trying to queue my first ...