This story was updated to report continued outages and Fortnite's 9 a.m. update. Many gamers experienced problems with Battle Royale video game Fortnite early Tuesday morning, which continued for ...

For now, the Fortnite down phase remains a waiting game. While downtime can be frustrating, it is an essential part of maintaining and evolving a live-service game of this scale.

Fortnite players are experiencing widespread outages as servers went offline for scheduled maintenance ahead of the highly anticipated The Simpsons mini-season launch. The downtime, which began at ...