Fortnite Chapter 4 starts today, with Geralt, Hulk and Doomslayer

Fortnite will be reborn on Sunday 4th December, when the game returns with its fresh Chapter 4 map.

The next era of Fortnite will welcome characters such as The Witcher’s Geralt, Doomslayer and The Hulk, plus new gameplay mechanics such as the addition of motorbikes to Epic’s hugely-popular battle royale.

Last night, Fortnite ditched its third map with shocking speed, as the game’s ever-changing Island was quickly consumed by the invading Chrome in a brief cutscene. Then followed an extended 30-minute event mode where players were tasked with reforging the Island anew, using a mix of familiar and fresh locales that look set to appear in Chapter 4.

The end of the event featured another cutscene – the one embedded here just above – where the heroic Paradigm (voiced by Brie Larson) succeeds in her mission to fuse the new Island together from the fragments players have corralled, as the game’s Zero Point macguffin lassoos chunks of landscape together.