{"id":132381,"date":"2023-03-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-146380"},"modified":"2023-03-11T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T22:00:00","slug":"two-resident-evil-character-skins-appear-to-have-leaked-for-fortnite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/11\/two-resident-evil-character-skins-appear-to-have-leaked-for-fortnite\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Resident Evil Character Skins Appear To Have Leaked For Fortnite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cefbe858d4803\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cefbe858d4803\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Fortnite\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cefbe858d4803\/fortnite.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cefbe858d4803\/fortnite.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fortnite\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Capcom \/ Epic Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Capcom characters from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/street_fighter\">Street Fighter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/resident_evil\">Resident Evil<\/a> series have already joined Epic&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> before, so it&#8217;s no surprise to see more of the Japanese company&#8217;s roster on the way to the popular battle royale.<\/p>\n<p>According to leaks this week (via Fortnite fan account HYPEX), Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield will both be added to the game as character skins in a future update. They would follow on from Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield skins added in 2021.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/hypex\/statuses\/1634104410962817026 @ 2023-03-11T22:06:16+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FORTNITE x RESIDENT EVIL \u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FortniteMEGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FortniteMEGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YDxpAvQ93A\">pic.twitter.com\/YDxpAvQ93A<\/a><\/span>\u2014 HYPEX (@HYPEX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HYPEX\/status\/1634104410962817026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On a related note, Fortnite could potentially be getting a first-person mode in its next update. Apparently, you&#8217;ll be able to freely swap between this view and the original third-person perspective. You can learn more in the story we ran earlier this week:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/switch-eshop\/related-articles:146111,122687,119017 @ 2023-03-12T00:06:34+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you think about these next Resident Evil character skins? If we get an update on this story, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Capcom \/ Epic Games Capcom characters from the Street Fighter and Resident Evil series have already joined Epic&#8217;s Fortnite before, so it&#8217;s no surprise to see more of the Japanese company&#8217;s roster on the way to the popular battle royale. According to leaks this week (via Fortnite fan account HYPEX), Leon S. Kennedy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}