{"id":86011,"date":"2026-07-15T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86011"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:37:04","slug":"of-course-the-odyssey-is-joining-fortnite-and-matt-damon-is-a-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86011","title":{"rendered":"Of Course The Odyssey is Joining Fortnite \u2014 And Matt Damon is a Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Fresh from his epic journey home after the Trojan War, Matt Damon&#8217;s Odysseus has one more trip planned: riding the battle bus into Fortnite. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, the hero of Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/the-odyssey-2026\">The Odyssey<\/a> will land in Epic Games&#8217; battle royale item shop tomorrow, Thursday, July 16, following the game&#8217;s next big update. That&#8217;s the same one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/as-englands-world-cup-semi-final-nears-david-beckham-announces-hes-joining-fortnite\">that&#8217;s adding England legend David Beckham<\/a>, as well as a slew of Batman characters in swimsuits.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games has shown off footage of Odysseus&#8217; skin in action \u2014 and yes, it&#8217;s clearly based on the likeness of Matt Damon.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"fortnite-official-the-odyssey-teaser-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Fortnite leaker <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiinaBR\/status\/2077378392027000853\">ShiinaBR<\/a> has also posted an image of a second The Odyssey skin, that of the hulking Agamemnon, played by Benny Safdie in the movie.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BOTH ODYSSEY FORTNITE SKINS REVEALED<\/p>\n<p>Odysseus and Agamemnon drop on July 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9dQxDFamHx\">pic.twitter.com\/9dQxDFamHx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shiina (@ShiinaBR) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiinaBR\/status\/2077378392027000853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If you fancy trying your luck at getting Odysseus for free, there&#8217;s a typical in-game tournament to try and do so. For the vast majority of players, however, a low-ranking entry here will at least award you an Odyssey-themed loading screen.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine Homer (the poet, not the Simpson) anticipating that anyone from his epic ode would get turned into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from his epic journey home after the Trojan War, Matt Damon&#8217;s Odysseus has one more trip planned: riding the battle bus into Fortnite. That&#8217;s right, the hero of Christopher Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey will land in Epic Games&#8217; battle royale item shop tomorrow, Thursday, July 16, following the game&#8217;s next big update. That&#8217;s the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":86013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86015,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86011\/revisions\/86015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}