Coachella is coming to Fortnite

Fortnite is adding Coachella to its prolonged, extended (long) record of in-activity collaborations. The annual tunes competition announced now that it is partnering with developer Epic Game titles to launch Coachella-themed skins and in-sport attributes for its first foray into gaming.

These times, Coachella is similarly identified for its performances as it is for the outfits attendees dress in — so it’s fitting that both of those are coming to Fortnite. Coachella will launch two series of skins to coincide with weekends a person and two of the audio festival, commencing April 14th and April 22nd. The outfits, motivated by the Coachella fashion, respond to music actively playing in the recreation. The initially group of things goes on sale in the Fortnite store at 8PM ET tonight.

In addition to the skins, Coachella will also do a takeover of the in-match Icon Radio, and players will be capable to hear to tunes by over 30 artists from this year’s festival lineup while in Fortnite autos.

Even though this is the 1st time Coachella will come to the video game, it’s considerably from the initially audio partnership. Fortnite has targeted far more on audio and dwell situations in the very last couple of yrs: Marshmello and Ariana Grande have carried out, and artists have been aspect of musical functions created in the game’s creative manner. Epic even developed a studio for in-activity live shows, expressing the Fortnite phase need to be viewed as a tour stop.

The Fortnite partnership is section of a larger sized push by Coachella this year toward digital pageant parts. The pageant has produced a number of rounds of NFTs and cellular AR functions for attendees in the direct-up to the competition.