It's possible to love a video game. To be devoted to it, to value what it does for you, and how it makes you feel. To want the best for it. Not in the same way you love a person -- or at least, I hope not. But take a look at any major fan convention for video games, movies, TV, or almost anything that develops a subculture, and you can see this love is real, active, and powerful. And if it's possible to love a video game, then of course it's possible to fall out of love.

It's possible to love a video game. To be devoted to it, to value what it does for you and how it makes you feel, and to want the best for it. Not in the same way you love a person -- or at least, I hope not. But take a look at any major fan convention for video games, movies, TV, or almost anything that develops a subculture, and you can see this love is real, active, and powerful. And if it's possible to love a video game, then of course it's possible to fall out of love. To feel disconnected from what first drew you to it.

And here comes the second competitive mode in Fortnite: Battle Royale. Epic Games is following up the popular Solo Showdown Limited Time Mode with Blitz Showdown, another high-level competitive mode that lets skilled players compete for big V-Buck prizes. And like with Solo Showdown, you're almost certainly not going to get any of those prizes: there are a ton of Fortnite: Battle Royale players out there, and the number that will be getting a reward is minuscule. Here's what the winners will get: Those rewards are down a bit from Solo Showdown, which offered 50,000 V-bucks at the top spot, but there's a wrinkle in how they're allotted. Epic is giving out rewards the top 100 players in each server region rather than doing it all as one big pool. So your chances are better, but still likely not great.

Fortnite: Battle Royale's first competitive mode is almost over. At 10:00 AM ET today, May 21, Epic Games will close out Solo Showdown and provide the final point tally, showering the grand winner with a whopping 50,000 V-Bucks. For Epic, this first competitive mode is both an event in itself and a test run--the developer is working on how to make tournaments work in the future, as well as, we assume, other kinds of ranked play. This first outing appears to have been popular so far--the developer hasn't announced participation numbers, but judging by the sky-high point totals you need to even register even close to a leaderboard, people are interested. And if this is a test run, I have one big suggestion for how to make these things matter more in the future: let more people win.

Fortnite: Battle Royale's competitive mode arrived a lot sooner than we thought. Developer Epic Games just announced Solo Showdown, a limited time mode live in the game right now. On the outset, it's the same thing as the normal solo game: drop onto an island with 100 players, get weapons, kill everyone else, stand alone triumphant on the top of the mountain, repeat. What's different, however, is huge. This is a scored mode designed as a proving ground for the best players in the game, and as such, it comes with massive V-Buck rewards for those that come out on top.

Fair warning: datamined files are sometimes reliable indicators of what's coming in a game, like when we get to see the Fortnite challenges a few days earlier or when the skins make it into the game week or so before they actually hit the shop. If there's a full-on skin in the game, for example, you can bet it's actually coming. Sometimes datamined files are less reliable, and we're talking about the latter right now. Recent sleuthing has uncovered a new folder attached to the limited time modes with "comp" in the title, and many are taking this to mean that Fortnite: Battle Royale is getting a competitive mode. Let's think about why Fortnite could use a competitive mode, to start with.

Robot Entertainment is finally ready to launch its latest PC game, Orcs Must Die: Unchained. The title, which has been in an open beta since last year, arrives on April 19th with a new head-to-head mode called "Sabotage." The veteran team of ex-Halo Wars developers foreshadowed the feature last year, after first trialing a MOBA concept with tower-defense elements. "One of the things that's important to me is to maintain our humor and our feel," designer Jerome Jones said at the time. As such, it returned to the formula that first brought the game success, namely map questing and Orc murder via combat and traps.

Between the 25 heroes at launch, the five factions, three competitive modes, and nine story episodes, players that pick up Battleborn should have plenty to accomplish. While teaming up with up to five players, Battleborn heroes work to earn loot, level up through three types of progression, and save the last star from slipping into the void. It is no secret that Battleborn players will be able to take up arms against each other in the game's competitive modes; Incursion, Meltdown, and Capture. However, Battleborn also offers co-operative players a chance to do their part. Nine story missions, and another five post-launch, are infinitely repeatable for loot, experience, and accolades.