After weeks of rumors and leaks, Epic Games has announced a collaboration between Fortnite and Hatsune Miku for the music game’s seventh season, which will begin on January 14, 2025. The Vocaloid star is the Fortnite festival icon for the seventh season of the music game, with a selection of themed awards and some of the most popular songs featuring Miku.
Vocaloids are voice synthesizer programs that are usually attached to anime-style avatars. Crypton Future Media popularized Vocaloid apps in the mid-2000s with their first two “singers”, Kaito and Meiko, before releasing Hatsune Miku in 2007. Since then, Miku has played in over six rhythm video games and over 100,000 songs, many of them new and independent. songwriters who licensed the Crypton Vocaloid program for their first works.
One of them was the indie rock band Supercell, a pop rock group that formed in 2007 and is still active in the Japanese music scene. “World is Mine”, one of their debut hits, is on the Hatsune Miku tracklist of the Fortnite festival, along with Anamanaguchi’s “Miku” and rapper Ashnikko’s Daisy 2.0. Epic Games said that video creators can monetize their work with these tracks for the first seven days after the season debut, during which they should not receive copyright takedown notices.
The Fortnite Festival Rewards Track unlocks several Miku-themed skins, including Brite Hatsune Miku, an outfit inspired by Fortnite’s Brite Bomber and a llama mascot, and a Neku Hatsune Miku outfit that comes with a Lego option for those who play Lego Fortnite. The pass also includes three Miku-style guitars and, at the end, Sawtowne’s track “M@GICAL☆CURE! LOVE ♥ SHOT”, which premiered in March 2024 and has since garnered over 13 million views on YouTube.
Also included in Season 7 of Fortnite Festival is a new set of battle scene modes that allow players to choose which specific parts of a song they want to practice and compete in – vocals, drums, lead vocals, and bass. Starting this season, up to four people can play Fortnite Festival together on a single console, though Epic hasn’t said if it plans to add local multiplayer support on PC as well. Fortnite Festival participants can also use their gear as a pendant – Epic’s term for backpacks and satchels – in Fortnite Battle Royale modes.
Epic is also planning Hatsune Miku skins for player characters in the Fortnite Battle Royale mode, though the company has yet to reveal them.
