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Fortnite’s next live music concert is Eminem, marking the rapper’s first video game cameo in almost 20 yearsIf you don’t count his star turn in god-awful mobile game Shady Wars, that is
If you don’t count his star turn in god-awful mobile game Shady Wars, that is
Image credit:Epic Games
Image credit:Epic Games
Battle royale shooter-turned-virtual music festivalFortniteis amping up its next musical collaboration - and this time, it’s bringing rapper Eminem back to the world of the video games for the first time in years.
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Fortnite is currently gearing up for its The Big Bang event, which will kick off in the game’s Battle Royale mode on Saturday December 2nd at 2pm ET/7pm GMT.
Alongside Eminem’s appearance, The Big Bang event “marks a new beginning for Fortnite” as its truncated Season OG draws to the end of itshistory trip back through Fortnite seasons and maps of oldas it prepares for the upcoming Chapter 5.
🛰 calling all grandmas 12.2pic.twitter.com/5WhalpnOEW— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem)November 21, 2023
🛰 calling all grandmas 12.2pic.twitter.com/5WhalpnOEW
Attending the concert will get you an Eminem-themed loading screen, along with a Magma style for the Marshall Never More outfit, if that tickles your fancy.
Eminem’sappearance in Fortnitemarks the first time in almost two decades that the hit rapper has made a cameo in a video game, if you discount his starring turn in terrible self-promotional 2015 mobile rhythm game Shady Wars. (Better forgotten, alongside equally awful iPhone brawler Relapse: Resistance from 2009.)
While Eminem’s songs have appeared in everything from DJ Hero (on which he also worked as a consultant, apparently) to Fortnite’s car radio, the rapper himself doesn’t seem to have been turned into polygons since his cameo as a dodgy cop in 2005’s50 Cent: Bulletproof. Before that, he showed up as a custom character model inQuake III: Arenaon the Dr. Dre-themed map Chronic. What a legacy.
