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Fortnite Servers Go Dark for v37.31 Update: New Daft Punk Experience, Modes and Fixes — What Went Down on Oct 2 2025

Epic Games’ Downtime Announcement Epic Games scheduled maintenance for the v37.31 update on Oct 2 2025. According to the company’s public‑status page, the maintenance was set for 08:00–09:30 UTC (04:00–05:30 ET), and matchmaking was disabled 30 minutes earlier status.epicgames.com. The status board listed Fortnite’s core services — game services, login and matchmaking — as under maintenance during this window status.epicgames.com, indicating that players would be unable to log in or join matches. Epic urged players to keep an eye on the @FortniteStatus feed for updates. Third‑party trackers reported similar times. Sportskeeda wrote that downtime would start at 4 AM ET and last about 90 minutes sportskeeda.com, while other

2 October 2025

Fortnite Pulls ‘Peacemaker’ Dance Emote Over Nazi Symbol Concerns – Fans Outraged

Background: Fortnite’s Peacemaker Crossover Fortnite frequently adds pop‑culture crossovers in its Item Shop. In mid-September 2025 it launched a DC Comics collaboration featuring Peacemaker (the James Gunn TV series starring John Cena). The bundle included a Peacemaker character skin, Eagly back-bling, a shield-themed pickaxe and wrap, plus two emotes thegamepost.com. One of those emotes – Peaceful Hips – recreated the silly hip-swaying dance from the show’s Season 2 opening credits fortnite.fandom.com fortnite.fandom.com. As the Fortnite wiki explains, Peaceful Hips “is based on the opening credits sequence for the second season of Peacemaker” fortnite.fandom.com, and it was available for purchase (400 V‑bucks)

28 September 2025

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Fortnite’s Daft Punk Experience Goes Live – With a Surprise Weeknd Cameo

What Is the Daft Punk Experience? Fortnite’s new event is a fully interactive music playground, not just a passive concert. Epic Games has branded it their “biggest musical experience” yet pitchfork.com. It spans 31 classic Daft Punk songs (from their early French-house era through hits like “Get Lucky”) in five custom virtual rooms. Each room has a theme – e.g. a Dream Chamber DJ hub where players remix tracks (including Daft Punk’s catalog and Weeknd collabs) pockettactics.com, a Daft Club dance floor playing the Alive tour visuals pitchfork.com, a Robot Rock Arena with breakout stages, and even a Lego build

27 September 2025

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