This week, Fortnite made the bounce to Xbox PC Store, which is the primary time the sport has been accessible on a launcher exterior of the Epic Sport Store. Sadly for each Epic and Microsoft, the transition seems to be going very badly.
As demonstrated on social media by The Verge’s Tom Warren, Fortnite’s Xbox PC Store launcher virtually instantly goes to an error message and a crash. Warren later famous that he utilized an replace to the sport, and attributed the problem to “the standard Xbox PC launch woes.”
A participant on X named Nick added that the Fortnite’s preliminary obtain on his Xbox PC Store launcher had no audio and dropped frames. “Uninstalled and reinstalled after patch and now it does not work,” added Nick. One other participant steered that Epic’s determination to push again an replace could have performed a task in inflicting the error on Xbox PC Store.
The sport launched properly, but it surely appears like when epic pushed the most recent replace they did some form of override to the entire set up making the sport solely 10MB solely putting in the executables however not the binaries. At this level it cant not be put in correctly till we get a repair
— enzorojopasion (@EnzoRojoPasion) November 18, 2025
For now, the problem stays unresolved. Within the meantime, Fortnite Crew was added to Xbox Sport Go Final as we speak. It offers Sport Go Final subscribers the identical advantages as a standalone Crew subscription, together with entry to the present battle go, music go, OG go, Lego Go, and a month-to-month stipend of 1,000 V-Bucks and a Crew pores and skin for each month the subscription stays lively.
Epic lately teased the introduction of Homer Simpson clones in Fortnite by staging an invasion of Homers in Santa Monica, California. The corporate has additionally shared plans to permit Unreal Editor for Fortnite builders to make Fortnite Artistic modes, or “islands,” to promote in-game objects utilizing the sport’s real-money forex, V-Bucks. This has led to fears that Fortnite Artistic goes pay-to-win.