Fortnite Honours Its Most Famous Player Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins With an In-Game Skin

Fortnite is known for its in-game crossover events with pop culture franchises like Star-Wars and Stranger Things. But Epic Games' hot property often taps celebrities for certain new content. Remember the Marshmallow skin that recently hit the game? The studio has now collaborated with another personality who is arguably the most popular Fortnite player on the planet - Tyler Bolins aka Ninja. Blevins now modelled a Fortnite skin after herself, and this her colour, especially the signature electric blue hair nails.

Ninja Skin is now available at the Fortnite Item Shop. The entire set includes Ninja Outfits, Ninja's Edge Back Bling, Ninja Style Emote and Dual Katana Pickaxe. Along with Ninja Skin, Blevins joins an elite club of personalities who have collaborated with Epic Games for exclusive in-game content as part of the Icon Series initiative. The Ninja Skin mimics the look of the Blevins and gives it a spiky makeover with a matching blue colour scheme with sleek blue hairdo, stylish face mask and jacket, and pairs black tights with sports shoes.

Blevins expressed gratitude through his Twitter account for getting a dedicated skin in Fortnite, and also gave users code to get it in the item shop. Blevins recently created waves after bidding farewell to Microsoft's mixer to make it their next home for streaming, and later the famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) player Michael "Shroud" Gracias and Corey "King Gothelian" joined by Michael.

However, Tyler "Ninja" Ballens is not the only famous Fortnite player to get his own game skin. Epic Games says the Icon Series program will soon collaborate with Twitch dreamer Kathleen to host "LosArfront" Blesten and YouTuber David "The Grafug" Martinez among other celebs in the game, music world, and Exclusive In - For game content.