We’re kicking off the year with a new Fortnite Festival season, a big crossover event for Battle Royale, and a whole host of new original skins set to release over the coming weeks. We’ll break down all of the biggest changes and additions in this update so you know exactly what to look out for when the servers come back online.

The full patch notes for Fortnite v33.20 are yet to be revealed, but will shortly be confirmed once the upcoming update has been implemented. "Prepare for devastation! Downtime for v33.20 begins at 4am ET, with matchmaking ending shortly beforehand," wrote the Fortnite Status X account.

Fortnite’s next update is widely expected to be released on Tuesday, January 14 at 12pm in the UK (4am PT / 7am ET). Ahead of its imminent launch, Epic has started internally testing (or “staging”) the update on its servers, per leakers.

Fortnite servers will go down at 9am GMT / 4am EST / 1am PST today, Tuesday, January 14, as confirmed by a tweet from the @FortniteStatus Twitter account. And as always, matchmaking will be disabled around 30 minutes beforehand, so you might be unable to get into a game from around 8.30am GMT / 3.30am EST / 12.30am PST.

Fortnite is kicking off the new year with a couple of big additions. Following the Winterfest update, Fortnite v33.20 will add a new character in Fortnite Festival, complemented by a major crossover in Battle Royale.

Fortnite continues to introduce bigger and badder bosses, and its newest action-packed update has truly taken it to the next level. The terrifying Godzilla and