The official Fortnite Twitter account appeared to unveil the battle go lineup for its upcoming retro-gaming-themed season on Monday morning. However, regardless that the season trailer teased a number of new collab skins from different video games–like Crash Bandicoot and Mega Man–it appears the Chapter 7 Season 4 battle go can have Sonic the Hedgehog as its solely collab pores and skin when the brand new season kicks off on Thursday.
It’s attainable, and possibly even seemingly, that Epic Video games is holding one thing. The present battle go, for Chapter 7 Season 3, included a Simpsons-fied model of John Wick that remained secret till the again half of the season.
Even when that finally ends up being the case, it’s extremely uncommon for Epic to advertise a brand new season of Fortnite primarily utilizing collaboration skins that will not be on the battle go. The one earlier time Epic did one thing like this was for 2025’s Star Wars mini-season, however that season’s go nonetheless included three Star Wars character skins.
Apart from Sonic himself, the Chapter 7 Season 4 key artwork consists of teases for Dr. Robotnik and Shadow the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot, Mega Man, Sora from Kingdom Hearts, Joker from Persona, a deer from a Roblox sport, Pac-Man, and Spyro the Dragon. Since Spyro and Pac-Man are seemingly sidekicks, it is nonetheless attainable one or each could possibly be included within the go. It’s best to anticipate loads of different new collabs to pop up as properly, particularly with Fortnitemares happening through the season.
All that whining apart, the Chapter 7 Season 4 battle go nonetheless has some actual gems on it. Apart from Sonic, the highlights are Wrixel and Mali. Mali is a combating sport character who has a pixelated fashion that makes her appear like she was ripped straight out of Virtua Fighter. And Wrixel is a block particular person, a la Minecraft or Roblox, who could be custom-made within the kinds for a number of Fortnite characters, like Jonesy.
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, dubbed Override, begins on Thursday, August 20.
