Fortnite’s Upcoming Season Contains Crossovers – Aug 17, 2026

Fortnite’s latest season, Override, begins on August 20, and yesterday’s trailer confirmed the brand new map and battle move will likely be centered on a variety of online game crossovers. Essentially the most notable inclusion is Sonic the Hedgehog; he’ll be playable as a pores and skin (stretched to suit Fortnite’s normal proportions), and parts of Inexperienced Hill Zone will seem on the map. The brand new footage exhibits Jonesy operating quick sufficient to go upside-down on one of many collection’ staple gravity-defying loops.

Nevertheless, Sonic is simply the tip of the iceberg in Chapter 7, Season 4 of Fortnite. Along with different characters from his universe, together with Tails, Dr. Eggman, and Shadow, the trailer additionally contains glimpses of Mega Man, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Joker from Persona 5, and large Tetris blocks that fall from the sky. Key artwork launched by the official Fortnite account additionally exhibits glimpses of Pac-Man and Sora from Kingdom Hearts (who we not too long ago noticed a variety of within the new D23 footage). In the meantime, it seems to be like different characters who’ve appeared as skins in previous seasons, like Grasp Chief, Geralt, Ryu, and Lara Croft, are additionally returning (to the battle store).

Gameplay-wise, the trailer additionally exhibits a backpack-based power-up system, the place sporting gadgets related to characters like Sonic or Tails offers you the powers of velocity or flight, respectively. We additionally see weapons like Mega Man’s arm cannon and the 8-bit shotgun, the latter of which appears to trace the participant’s rating. The trailer concludes with a glimpse of Geno, a serious villain in Fortnite’s lore who will presumably be showing as a boss for gamers to battle.

You may take a look at the total trailer beneath:

Fortnite’s Chapter 7, Season 4 Override begins on August 20, and you may play it on principally each platform you’ll be able to consider: PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, Swap 2, PS4, Xbox One, Swap, PC, iOS, and Android.