{"id":30997,"date":"2026-05-28T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/is-fortnite-down-on-may-28-when-will-the-game-be-back-online\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:59:45","slug":"is-fortnite-down-on-may-28-when-will-the-game-be-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/is-fortnite-down-on-may-28-when-will-the-game-be-back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fortnite down on May 28? When will the game be back online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>May 28, 2026, 3:30 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/picture-gallery\/tech\/gaming\/2026\/04\/01\/a-look-at-fortnite-chapter-7-season-2-showdown\/89415469007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - A look at Fortnite Chapter 7, Season 2 Showdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/27\/PNJM\/90286074007-fortnite-shattered.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0&amp;width=660&amp;height=372&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" elementtiming=\"ar-lead-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/27\/PNJM\/90286074007-fortnite-shattered.jpg?crop=1919,https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/1079,https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/x0,https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/y0&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><svg class=\"gnt_em_gl_i_svg\"><use xlink:href=\"#gnt_svg_camera\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"gnt_sh\">\n<li class=\"gnt_sh_li\">the popular Battle Royale game officially went offline at 4 a.m. on Friday, May 28 for a scheduled update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/tech\/gaming\/2026\/03\/19\/fortnite-new-chapter-7-season-2-showdown-launches-today\/89190131007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Fortnite<\/a> down?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Yes, the popular Battle Royale game officially went offline at 4 a.m. on Friday, May 28 for a scheduled update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fortnite\/status\/2058171245095797074?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Fortnite Status posted on X:<\/a> &#8220;Downtime for v40.41 begins tonight at 4 AM ET (8 AM UTC) to prepare for the end-of-season live event on Friday, June 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Fortnite&#8217;s Chapter 7, Season 2 Showdown began on March 19 and will run until June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">However, before the season-ending event next week, there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fortnite\/status\/2058896205397279112?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Fortnite Community Day<\/a> on Saturday, May 30.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp\">USA TODAY Shopping: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":body nav (prime)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/shopping\/\">Shop sales in tech, home, fashion, beauty &amp; more curated by our editors.<\/a><\/aside>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:372px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/27\/PNJM\/90286074007-fortnite-shattered.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/27\/PNJM\/90286074007-fortnite-shattered.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The end of season Fortnite event will be on June 5 at 7 p.m.\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">When will Fortnite be back online?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Fortnite should be ready to play again in a few hours. Updates usually last less than than two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">You can check the status of <a href=\"https:\/\/status.epicgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Fortnite on the Epic Games site here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, 2026, 3:30 a.m. ET the popular Battle Royale game officially went offline at 4 a.m. on Friday, May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/27\/PNJM\/90286074007-fortnite-shattered.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0&width=1919&height=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}