Negan Is Coming To Fortnite Alongside A Major Walking Dead Update

The undead walkers of The Walking Dead are invading the islands of Fortnite Creative, and they’re bringing with them the first new Walking Dead item shop skin since 2021: Negan, who lands in the shop on April 4.

The Walking Dead Universe is the latest franchise to pitch its tent in Fortnite’s metaverse by adding assets that can be used in Fortnite islands made using Unreal Editor for Fortnite, the big ones being the walker NPCs, and a prison island template based on that prison that TWD’s protagonists had to live in early on in the series. And starting with the next patch, on April 8, Negan will be usable as a Creative NPC as well.

There are some goodies for all of Fortnite Creative as well, like Lucille–Negan’s barbed wire-wrapped bat–and a Shiva Shotgun inspired by King Ezekiel’s tiger BFF. To really give your island a despairing vibe, creators can make use of the Heavy Linework post-processing effect to make the whole place look like it popped out of the pages of the black-and-white Walking Dead comics themselves.

While these new tools are available to creators now, islands using them cannot be published until May 16.

Negan will be the first new Walking Dead skin since Rick Grimes was added for Fortnitemares in 2021, with Michonne and Daryl skins released the year before. It’s worth noting that Negan will be launching in the shop about a month before the Season 2 premiere of The Walking Dead: Dead City on AMC, in which Negan and Maggie get dragged into some new post-apocalyptic drama in New York City. It could be that a Maggie skin is on the way, as well, though Epic has not revealed that today.