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Fortnite's giant hand event was a return to the game's uniqueness of old
This weekend, Fortnite simultaneously did something it had never done before, and something it hadn't done in ages. On …
On the game's storied battle royale Island, players looked on as a giant hand made out of rapidly-cooling lava burst out of the ground, clasping an enormous treasure box that then lay, danging, high up in the air. Rhythmic rumblings had been tracked by fans to a spot outside Ruined Reels - a sort-of Greek amphitheature turned open-air cinema - and a slowly widening crack in the ground nearby. The best of these - the slow build-up to Tony Stark's base appearing during the Marvel season, the gradual construction of the mech ahead of the brilliant monster kaiju live event, the rumbling of paths of the many Cubes - make Fortnite's map feel alive in a way no other game manages.
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