‘Fortnite’ confirms Hoshimachi Suisei virtual concert

    'Fortnite Festival'.

    Fortnite has confirmed its next in-game virtual concert will be delivered by Japanese singer, songwriter and virtual YouTuber Hoshimachi Suisei.

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    Hoshimachi Suisei started posting videos in 2018 before joining virtual YouTuber agency Hololive and releasing music through their INoNaKa Music label. Earlier this year, she launched her own Studio Stellar. Suisei has more than 2.88million subscribers on YouTube while more than 1.2million people listen to her music every month on Spotify.

    Now Hoshimachi Suisei is heading to Fortnite for a virtual concert. The ‘Stellar in Fortnite’ gig will take place May 2 at midday BST while a world inspired by Suisei’s music will also be made available for players to explore.

    Last month a number of Hoshimachi Suisei cosmetics, including skins and the ‘Bibbidiba’ emote, were added to the Fortnite shop as part of their icon series.

    Earlier this month, Laufey was announced as the headline act for Fortnite Festival season 14. As well as skins, cosmetics and jam tracks, a live concert experience inspired by Laufey’s recent ‘A Matter Of Time’ arena tour was also added to the game.

    “It’s a collaboration you might not expect from me,” Laufey told NME. “When I started out, I was known as this jazz girl and people assumed I was timid and soft.  Running around with a gun [in Fortnite] is absolutely the best way to show that there are so many more layers to me.”

    “Fortnite is just so fantastical,” she added. “It’s something that you’d never see in real life but if you closed your eyes while listening to my music, it’s the world you might dream up. It’s uber romantic and very expressionist, in a way. I want to encourage my fans to be the biggest version of themselves. Inside a video game, you’re free to be the most [authentic] version of yourself and not feel like you’re being judged.”

    Epic Games recently added a karaoke mode to Fortnite Festival, which has already spawned a number of viral videos. Yesterday, the company confirmed it would be refunding players who had bought any of the D4vd collaboration cosmetics after the singer was charged with the murder of a 14-year-old girl.

    In other news, Call Of Duty movie director Peter Berg has gone viral for brutal comments he made about gamers in a 2013 interview.

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