Today an upcoming event in Fortnite Festival featuring popular singer and songwriter Lady Gaga has been announced.
The announcement comes from the artist's own official X (formerly Twitter) account, where she posted the artwork you can see above with the date February 22, 2024.
Funnily, she posted that while quoting her own "What’s fortnight" tweet from 2019, which has basically become a viral meme.
At the moment, the extent of the event has not been revealed, but the official X account of the game has been fanning the flames implying that we may see new songs and perhaps even skins. It remains to be seen whether we'll see an actual performance.
Update 2/21/2024: Epic Games has fully detailed the event via official press release, which will kickstart Fortnite Festival's Season 2, titled "Unlock Your Talent."
The following songs will be included
- Lady Gaga - Applause
- Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary
- Lady Gaga - Born This Way
- Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory
- Lady Gaga ft. Colby O'Donis - Just Dance
- Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me
- Lady Gaga - Stupid Love
- Lady Gaga - Poker Face
You can check out a trailer below.
The season pass' free track will include the Woodworker Drums, three new Jam Tracks, the Pop Off Aura, and two new Emotes.
The paid premium track will include the track “Poker Face,” the Enigmatic Gaga Outfit, Chromatica-themed instruments, and more.
Those willing to shop in the store will be able to purchase the Chromatica Armor Outfit, the Chromatica Bass, the Chromatica Mic, the “Stupid Love” Jam Track, and the Rain Check Emote. You can check everything out in the gallery below.
This is not the first time that content related to Lady Gaga appears in Fortnite Festival, as her song "Bad Romance" was part of the launch lineup for the game.
If you're unfamiliar with Fortnite Festival, it's a full-fledged rhythm game developed by Harmonix, which basically pioneered the genre by creating incredibly successful games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
It launched within Epic Games' massively popular battle royale game-turned-metaverse Fortnite back in December with over 600,000 peak concurrent users. While since then the numbers have cooled quite a bit, it's not unlikely that Lady Gaga's inclusion with a larger scope will reignite the game's flame.
It launched together with Psyonix's Rocket Racing and LEGO Fortnite (which proved to be the most successful of the three games with 2.4 million peak concurrent players), marking an acceleration in Epic Games' plans to turn the battle royale game into a full-fledged metaverse offering a variety of experiences and genres.
Just recently, we heard of a massive deal with Disney, which will lead to the creation of a large persistent universe connected to Fortnite utilizing Epic's technology and know-how. The house of Mickey Mouse went as far as investing $1.5 billion to acquire an undisclosed stake in Epic Games for the purpose.
