Seeing Fortnite Festival add local co-op next week is hitting me right in the nostalgia. Remember getting your first Guitar Hero bundle? Mine was Christmas 2006, when I was just 9 years old. My brother or sister snapped a picture of me with their new digital camera for MySpace – just this little kid grinning ear to ear, holding the box up in my dirty white t-shirt. Spent countless hours with my cousins after that, all of us competing to see who could nail Expert mode first. One of my older cousins never believed my tiny fingers could move so fast.
Fortnite Festival adds local multiplayer on January 14 🎸
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) January 10, 2025
New trailer gets the band back together: https://t.co/VoCnGZ6QE9 pic.twitter.com/78D23VQEWR
Now, Fortnite’s recreating those memories for a new generation. Starting January 14, PlayStation and Xbox players can get the band together with up to four people jamming on the same screen. With the “Riffmaster” from PDP recently coming out, they’ve even got official guitar controllers now. Though, honestly, it’s a bummer that we’re still stuck using regular controllers for drums and vocals. Using the “pro drums” cymbals add-on with Rock Band 3 added an entirely new layer to the experience back in the day.
Still, Season 7 looks pretty wild with Hatsune Miku joining the Festival. Two new Miku skins are dropping (including this killer Neko-style one), plus a bunch of her songs to play. Between Miku’s tracks and whatever else they add next season, looks like we’ll have plenty of reasons to keep the band together.
Hatsune Miku Fortnite Festival Teaser! pic.twitter.com/SHkEoNlOye
— iFireMonkey (@iFireMonkey) January 8, 2025
For now, local co-op is just hitting consoles – sorry PC and mobile players. But have no fear, Harmonix is behind this thing, the same folks who gave us Rock Band and the original Guitar Hero, so they know what they’re doing. Just wish they’d ramp up the peripheral support already!
Now excuse me while I go try to get my crew back together.
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