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Epic Games Launches TV Character Skins Amid Fortnite Outage

5/8/2026

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Epic Games will add Lois Griffin, Linda Belcher and Peggy Hill skins to Fortnite’s Item Shop on 8 May in United States and 9 May in United Kingdom.
The skins cost 1,200-1,500 V-Bucks or up to 3,000 V-Bucks in a Mother’s Day bundle.
Epic Games confirmed the widespread outage in a tweet, with Down Detector recording thousands of complaints that showed it affected players in United States, United Kingdom and Europe.

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Epic Games will add Lois Griffin, Linda Belcher and Peggy Hill skins to Fortnite’s Item Shop on 8 May in United States and 9 May in United Kingdom.
The skins cost 1,200-1,500 V-Bucks or up to 3,000 V-Bucks in a Mother’s Day bundle.
Epic Games confirmed the widespread outage in a tweet, with Down Detector recording thousands of complaints that showed it affected players in United States, United Kingdom and Europe.