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Fortnite Is a Black Hole

Epic ended Fortnite Season 10 by having the entire world consumed by a black hole. All that remains is darkness (for now).

 & Matthew Humphries Former Senior Editor

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Today, Fortnite players are having to find something else to do unless they enjoy staring at a livestream of a black hole.

As Kotaku reports, Epic Games brought Season 10 to an end with a big bang, quite literally, after the entire map was sucked into a black hole. Players congregated around Dusty Depot's rocket, which launched and cracked the sky. Rockets filled the air and converged on a single location at Loot Lake forming a bubble over it. Then a meteor hit the bubble, burst it, and everything gets sucked into a black hole that forms.

Right now, Fortnite can't be played. Anyone logging in will be presented with the aftermath of the event, which is just the black hole. It's unclear how long Epic intends to leave the game in this state, but it surely won't be for too much longer.

What Fortnite players should expect is something quite different to what has come before. Nobody destroys a world unless you intend to rebuild it in a new way, right? Apparently the numbers 11, 146, 15, and 62 are appearing above the black hole occasionally, which has been decoded from the Visitor's audio logs as meaning "I was not alone. Others were outside the loop. This was not calculated. The nothing is now inevitable."

We could be waiting until 6am ET on Tuesday to find out what happens next.

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I started working at PCMag in November 2016, covering all areas of technology and video game news. Before that I spent nearly 15 years working at Geek.com as a writer and editor. I also spent the first six years after leaving university as a professional game designer working with Disney, Games Workshop, 20th Century Fox, and Vivendi.

I hold two degrees: a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Games Development. My first book, Make Your Own Pixel Art, is available from all good book shops.

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