Epic is kicking off 2026 with their first major Fortnite collab event of the year, as South Park has been smushed into the enduring battle royale. There’s some fun new twists here, from the 5-player Quints playlist, to the Cartmanland POI and a free Born in the Chaos battle pass.

Having dredged up the powerful Stick of Truth, Butters has forced Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny to play Fortnite with him. The stick is so powerful, it’s managed to bend the game code to allow all five of them to team up in the Quints playlist.

Here’s what else you’ll find in this event, running from today through 5th February:

• Gameplay Items: Players can restore health, heal allies, or damage enemies with Cheesy Poofs; reboot automatically after being eliminated with the one-time-use Kenny’s Respawn Token; and for the first time ever, control where the Storm goes by retrieving the one-time-use Stick of Truth from the sky.
• Cartmanland: Drop into a new POI: Cartman’s massive personal theme park! Cartmanland features rideable thrills such as CHAOS BLAST, Voyage to the Center of the Planet, and Pi Pi’s Splash Town.
• The Born in Chaos Pass: With no V-Bucks required, the Born in Chaos Pass features 13 South Park-themed items players can unlock – including a Cheesy Poofs Emote, Back Blings, Pickaxes, and more – by completing new South Park Quests.

Epic has always been pretty hot on the IP collabs, but it certainly feels as though they’re picking up the pace on some of these. In the last few months of 2025 along, they brought the K-Pop Demon Hunters into the game from the hit Netflix movie, and the there was the whole Simpsons crossover.

South Park is hardly a stranger to the realms of video games, from one of the most popular and enduring episodes of the show having featured World of Warcraft at the peaks of its early popularity, to the menagerie of tie-in games from the tail end of the PS1 and N64 era, through to the popular RPG duology Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole – it’s obviously Stick of Truth that Fortnite is leaning on to get the boys into the game.

Source: press release

Epic is kicking off 2026 with their first major Fortnite collab event of the year, as South Park has been smushed into the enduring battle royale. There’s some fun new twists here, from the 5-player Quints playlist, to the Cartmanland POI and a free Born in the Chaos battle pass.

Having dredged up the powerful Stick of Truth, Butters has forced Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny to play Fortnite with him. The stick is so powerful, it’s managed to bend the game code to allow all five of them to team up in the Quints playlist.

Here’s what else you’ll find in this event, running from today through 5th February:

• Gameplay Items: Players can restore health, heal allies, or damage enemies with Cheesy Poofs; reboot automatically after being eliminated with the one-time-use Kenny’s Respawn Token; and for the first time ever, control where the Storm goes by retrieving the one-time-use Stick of Truth from the sky.
• Cartmanland: Drop into a new POI: Cartman’s massive personal theme park! Cartmanland features rideable thrills such as CHAOS BLAST, Voyage to the Center of the Planet, and Pi Pi’s Splash Town.
• The Born in Chaos Pass: With no V-Bucks required, the Born in Chaos Pass features 13 South Park-themed items players can unlock – including a Cheesy Poofs Emote, Back Blings, Pickaxes, and more – by completing new South Park Quests.

Epic has always been pretty hot on the IP collabs, but it certainly feels as though they’re picking up the pace on some of these. In the last few months of 2025 along, they brought the K-Pop Demon Hunters into the game from the hit Netflix movie, and the there was the whole Simpsons crossover.

South Park is hardly a stranger to the realms of video games, from one of the most popular and enduring episodes of the show having featured World of Warcraft at the peaks of its early popularity, to the menagerie of tie-in games from the tail end of the PS1 and N64 era, through to the popular RPG duology Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole – it’s obviously Stick of Truth that Fortnite is leaning on to get the boys into the game.

Source: press release

A prominent Fortnite leaker has revealed details of a collaboration with South Park, including a comeback mechanic involving Kenny.

Fortnite has collaborated with practically every popular IP at this point, with The Simpsons, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, and Stranger Things all getting the spotlight in some form over the past few months.

In terms of American animated shows, The Simpsons, Rick And Morty, King Of The Hill, and Family Guy have all featured in the battle royale in some capacity, but the one key omission for years has been South Park.

A South Park crossover in Fortnite has been rumoured since October this year, but a reliable leaker, HypeX, has now revealed the first details of what it will involve.

South Park x Fortnite is described as a ‘big collab’ by the leaker, which will feature at least one boss on the map, a Stick Of Truth mythic item, some kind of consumable, along with a rift anomaly titled ‘Everyone Kills Kenny’.

Rift anomalies are a new feature in the recently launched Fortnite Chapter 7, which modify the rules by granting powerful buffs or items to everyone in a match. According to fellow Fortnite leaker ShiinaBR on X, this Kenny anomaly will allow players to respawn after death – in reference to how he always comes back in the show.

While ‘multiple skins’ are promised in the South Park crossover, they will apparently be the much-derided mech skins. Like the recent Bart Simpson skin, or Mecha Morty from years prior, Fortnite has a habit of putting smaller characters, which don’t match the average proportions, into mech suits so there’s no strategic advantage.

It’s become the common way to get around the hit box issue, and while understandable, they always look a bit rubbish. If Stan, Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny all get mech suits though, hopefully there’ll be some normal skins of the adults in the show – such as Randy Marsh or Mr Garrison.

It’s unclear when the South Park collaboration will be released, but leaker SamLeakss has said it’ll arrive at some point this month as part of Chapter 7. A Lego Ninjago crossover is set to debut on December 11, alongside a Playboi Carti skin. A collaboration with Harry Potter is also slated to happen as part of Winterfest, according to leaks.

While South Park hasn’t yet appeared in Fortnite, the show has seen several video game adaptations over the years. The last one was South Park: Snow Day, but the most celebrated are 2014’s The Stick Of Truth and its sequel, The Fractured But Whole.

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ARC Raiders is a phenomenon, that much we all knew. But it's rare for modern games to step out of their digital boundaries and enter the actual, thus becoming cornerstones of our contemporary culture. But ARC Raiders has done it, naturally in collaboration with one of the most iconic cultural products of our time.

In a surprising twist, ARC Raiders has collaborated with South Park, making a small but meaningful appearance in the show's fourth episode Turkey Trot. In the episode, one character, called Tolkien Black, is playing ARC Raiders on his Xbox while Cartman is begging him to join the annual Turkey Trot race that is sponsored by, surprise, surprise, Saudi Arabia. The whole episode pokes fun at various aspects of contemporary culture and is oddly relevant to gaming on a deep level.

ARC Raiders primarily features as background noise, but there are a few actual gameplay snippets that appear, which were provided to South Park's creators by Embark Studios itself. Ashley St. Germain, Embark's marketing lead, said on LinkedIn that it took only a couple of days to set the collab up after South Park reached out to the studio this Monday.

"On Monday South Park inquired if a character could play ARC Raiders in an upcoming episode, on Tuesday we provided footage, and on Wednesday we were in S28’s “Turkey Trot” episode, she wrote.

This is a major achievement for ARC Raiders, given how much cultural impact South Park has. The show is always in touch with the latest phenomena in global and American life, and it warms my heart to see a great game and studio be recognized as culturally relevant enough to feature in one of the episodes. It could've been Battlefield 6 or even Call of Duty, but as they always do, the creators of South Park recognized who's the most deserving of a highlight.

It's a small "token" of appreciation to Embark Studios, and one it fully deserves.

The episode did not stop there. Saudi Arabia gets made fun of a ton, being represented as a country that gives money to anyone who asks for it, in exchange for some sweet promotion.

EA Games, one of the biggest gaming publishers, was recently acquired by the Saudis, and they have also ventured into the world of esports, and even cooperated with Ubisoft on a new Assassin's Creed update. Saudi Arabia is gunning for cultural influence and impact on the global stage, and it's no wonder it was specifically targeted by South Park.

Thankfully, ARC Raiders isn't the byproduct of nefarious collaborations with authoritarian regimes. Even so, the shadow of Saudi Money looms heavily on video games, and it's likely only going to keep getting darker.

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