{"id":351,"date":"2022-04-24T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/fortnite-lightsabers-rumored-to-return-for-star-wars-day\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:05:33","slug":"fortnite-lightsabers-rumored-to-return-for-star-wars-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/fortnite\/fortnite-lightsabers-rumored-to-return-for-star-wars-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite: Lightsabers Rumored to Return for Star Wars Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fortnite-lightsabers-rumored-to-return-for-star-wars-day_6268184cc3977.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fortnite-lightsabers-rumored-to-return-for-star-wars-day_6268184cc3977.webp 747w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fortnite-lightsabers-rumored-to-return-for-star-wars-day_6268184cc3977-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortnite and Star Wars have maintained a healthy relationship dating back to 2019 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/estnn.com\/fortnite-x-star-wars-event-recap-featuring-lightsabers-and-blasters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first-ever live event<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0ahead of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. At the event&#8217;s conclusion, Lightsabers became a usable weapon in Fortnite for the first time. Fortnite&#8217;s cross-promotion with Star Wars lasted just under one month, at which point Lightsabers left the loot pool. Since then, Epic Games and Star Wars have collaborated on several in-game Fortnite cosmetics, but Lightsabers have resurfaced only once\u2013briefly in Chapter 2 Season 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/estnn.com\/fortnite-lightsabers-rumored-to-return-for-star-wars-day\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the 4th be with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}