Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic's money-printing battle royale, still exists, and after nearly a decade it's going free to play

Well, here's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Fortnite: Save the World, the game that gave us Epic's absurdly popular battle royale, has been quietly persisting for the better part of a decade, just chilling in the shadow of its offspring. And now it's going free to play. I know: was it not F2P already? Apparently not! Fortnite: Save the World had a long journey into existence. It was announced in 2011, but didn't actually appear until 2017, after several delays and significant changes, and even then it only launched in early access.