When Does Fortnite's Batman Event Start?

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It's nearly Batman Day! You might have missed that, because you're probably busy with celebrating National Pepperoni Pizza Day, National String Cheese Day, National Tradesmen Day and National Punch Day, all of which are apparently on September 20. Batman Day is September 21, and it's the celebration of the Dark Knight' first debut in DC comics. This one is special: he's been punching his way into our hearts for 80 years. Epic Games is apparently seriously into this, because in addition to giving away fully 6 free Batman games on the Epic Games store, it's celebrating all things Batman in Fortnite, because that's sort of what Fortnite does.

Earlier today, Epic Games announced that it would be revealing the FortniteXBatman collaboration at 8:00 AM Eastern on September 21 with a video on Youtube. It's not live right now, but you can watch it right here when it starts up:

We know a little bit of what we'll be getting, thanks to the intrepid datamining community. Most prominent will be a new Rift Zone that looks like it will slot in on top of Tilted Towers/Neo Tilted/Tilted Town, and it's going to be none other than Gotham City. In addition we're getting a grapple gun, an explosive Batarang, and a set of free challenges with cosmetics as a reward. Not all cosmetics will be free, of course, and it looks like we're going to get a store pack chock full of new items, though it seems most are encrypted. Interestingly enough, I feel like a Batman skin is something of a question: the Caped Crusader famously disdains guns, and any Fortnite skin is going to spend a whole lot of time firing guns. We've seen similar decisions with other franchises that seemed to keep certain skins out of the game for fear of damaging the brand, so we'll see.

One cosmetic that we're definitely getting will be a big Bat-Cape to glide in on your opponents with, and that feels like the star of the show to me. Batman might seem like an odd fit for Fortnite until you consider this one singular cosmetic, letting you swoop in on unsuspecting enemies like an apex predator before getting blown to pieces like apex prey. But the swooping! The swooping is what matters.

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