{"id":86325,"date":"2026-07-22T05:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86325"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:36:39","slug":"with-pokemon-in-fortnite-seemingly-off-the-table-palworld-looks-likely-to-crossover-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86325","title":{"rendered":"With Pok\u00e9mon in Fortnite Seemingly Off the Table, Palworld Looks Likely to Crossover Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Steam hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/palworld\">Palworld<\/a> looks likely to crossover with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> in the future, while Pok\u00e9mon seemingly remains off the table.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, Pocketpair head of publishing and communications John &#8220;Bucky&#8221; Buckley openly suggested a crossover with Fortnite via a post on social media, hoping to catch the attention of Epic Games. &#8220;If you ever want to put Palworld in Fortnite just reach out hehe \ud83d\ude07,&#8221; Bucky <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2014136352267501950?s=20\">wrote<\/a> \u2014 and it seems like Epic Games might have taken interest. <\/p>\n<p>This week, Epic Games was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HYPEX\/status\/2079316865109651721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2079316865109651721%7Ctwgr%5E1aa9a21364382ff9da22b2d103ba23e02e9d2e23%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dexerto.com%2Fpalworld%2Fpalworld-dev-fuels-fortnite-crossover-rumors-after-leaked-survey-3389771%2F\">spotted<\/a> adding Palworld to Fortnite&#8217;s in-game survey, which sometimes asks players to rate aspects of the game, or share details of other games they had played recently. It&#8217;s also a tool that is sometimes used to gauge interest in upcoming crossovers, with titles popping up before crossover skins appear in-game.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after this, Bucky mysteriously <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2079593315910254604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2079593315910254604%7Ctwgr%5E0324e3cbdcd2e49d6aa23e39906af7e6e21827eb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.x.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FBucky_cm%2Fstatus%2F2079593315910254604\">tweeted<\/a> to ask Palworld fans which Pal creature they would like to see get a skin one day \u2014 with the caveat that he did not mention Fortnite by name, and stated that his question was being asked &#8220;theoretically, hypothetically, conceptually, and spiritually,&#8221; with &#8220;absolutely no promise of it being realized or coming to fruition ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Theoretically, hypothetically, conceptually, and spiritually\u2026if,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam hit Palworld looks likely to crossover with Fortnite in the future, while Pok\u00e9mon seemingly remains off the table. Back in January, Pocketpair head of publishing and communications John &#8220;Bucky&#8221; Buckley openly suggested a crossover with Fortnite via a post on social media, hoping to catch the attention of Epic Games. &#8220;If you ever want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":86327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86325","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\/86325"}],"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=86325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86329,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86325\/revisions\/86329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}