Fortnite will finally allow creators to make their own officially-licensed Star Wars minigames, beginning this week.
The ability to create Star Wars-themed games within Fortnite has long been promised, following Disney’s $1.5 billion investment within the game back in 2024. Now, at last, Fortnite has confirmed that the tools necessary to make Star Wars content will go live on Thursday, March 19, alongside the highly-anticipated next season of the game’s main battle royale mode.
To be clear, this doesn’t mean you’ll be able to hop in on Thursday and start playing loads of ready-built Star Wars content. Or, if that is indeed the case, there’s been no suggestion of this as yet. Instead, Thursday will simply mark the release of Star Wars assets to developers — so don’t expect to be swinging your lightsaber around just yet. (There’s also no suggestion that Fortnite’s previous AI-powered Darth Vader will be back for creators to play around with — for now.)
All of that said, today’s announcement is still exciting for fans who have been limited to using Star Wars weapons within Fortnite’s regular but limited-time Star Wars crossover events. Presumably, the idea is that enough Star Wars minigames will be made over the next couple of months that the game has a healthy library by the time the franchise’s annual May 4 celebrations arrive — and it’s not just more reskins of the usual Red vs Blue or Bed Wars concepts. Prop Hunt on Hoth? Star the BrainWars?
Last week, Epic Games announced its biggest ever shakeup to how Fortnite’s lucrative in-game currency is doled out, and how much it will cost to buy. In short, you’ll now get fewer V-Bucks for your money, fewer V-Bucks in each battle pass, and fewer V-Bucks as part of the game’s Fortnite Crew monthly subscription. The changes have prompted a noisy and still-ongoing backlash within the game’s community, which Epic Games likely hopes the upcoming new battle royale season launch will help quell.
That new season looks set to reintroduce The Foundation, Fortnite’s key in-game character voiced by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, and bring together various other story threads as its long-dormant narrative continues to kick up a gear. Expect further teasers for all of that this week.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
