{"id":34219,"date":"2018-07-20T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/fortnite_is_celebrating_its_first_birthday_with_free_in-game_cosmetic_items"},"modified":"2018-07-20T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:45:00","slug":"fortnite-is-celebrating-its-first-birthday-with-free-in-game-cosmetic-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/fortnite-is-celebrating-its-first-birthday-with-free-in-game-cosmetic-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Is Celebrating Its First Birthday With Free In-Game Cosmetic Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/fortnite_is_celebrating_its_first_birthday_with_free_in-game_cosmetic_items\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/fortnite_is_celebrating_its_first_birthday_with_free_in-game_cosmetic_items\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Fortnite 1st Birthday\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/fortnite_is_celebrating_its_first_birthday_with_free_in-game_cosmetic_items\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/fortnite_is_celebrating_its_first_birthday_with_free_in-game_cosmetic_items\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fortnite 1st Birthday\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In just a few days (24th July, to be exact), global phenomenon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\"><strong>Fortnite<\/strong><\/a> is celebrating its first birthday. Considering you can barely turn a computer on or look at your phone for five seconds without seeing the game pop up on your news feeds, it&#8217;s pretty surprising that it&#8217;s only been around for a year, but we&#8217;re about to get some free goodies so we&#8217;re not complaining.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the occasion, in-game challenges will start to appear on that special day. Completing the challenges will get you certain cosmetic rewards in a similar fashion to the usual challenges that appear throughout each season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/fortnite_is_celebrating_its_first_birthday_with_free_in-game_cosmetic_items\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/fortnite_is_celebrating_its_first_birthday_with_free_in-game_cosmetic_items\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"fortnitebirthday.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<ul>\n<li>Deal 1,000 damage to opponents to unlock the\u00a0<strong>Fortnite Birthday!<\/strong>\u00a0Emoticon<\/li>\n<li>Dance at different birthday cakes to unlock the\u00a0<strong>Happy Birthday!<\/strong>\u00a0Spray<\/li>\n<li>Play 14\u00a0matches to unlock\u00a0<strong>5,000<\/strong>\u00a0XP.<\/li>\n<li>Complete all 3 challenges to earn the\u00a0<strong>Birthday Cake<\/strong>\u00a0Back Bling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the game, make sure to jump into the fun next Tuesday. It seems like the famous Battle Bus might be getting a birthday makeover for the event, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be celebrating with a few games next Tuesday? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just a few days (24th July, to be exact), global phenomenon Fortnite is celebrating its first birthday. Considering you can barely turn a computer on or look at your phone for five seconds without seeing the game pop up on your news feeds, it&#8217;s pretty surprising that it&#8217;s only been around for a year, [&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-34219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219","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=34219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}