Fortnite hits 7.7 billion players, probably now that Blanka is wearing a suit

Blanka and Sakura are the latest Street Fighter characters to come Fortnite, which, I guess, will reach 7.7 billion concurrent players on Thursday because Blanka shows up wearing a suit. That’s right: Blank from Street Fighter 2 wearing business suits for men now. I suggest you get used to it!

The latest Street Fighter characters to join Fortnite arrives on April 28 at 20.00 EDT in the game’s department store. For Blanka, it means the Brazilian fighter’s original shorts and shackles look, but also the appropriate Blanka Delgado alt style, which Epic Games says is inspired by rival schools Bowman Delgado, which … does not seem accurate at all if you look at Bowman, but we let it slip, because they put Blanka in a suit. Blanka also gets a fruit salad ax (“Tropical Hazard Kebab Pickaxe”) and Blanka-Chan Back Bling plus a backflip emote.

Sakura, who first appeared in Street Fighter Alpha 2gets his original school clothes, an alternative gymnastics style inspired by one Street Fighter 4 see, and Victory Sway emote. (You know, Sakura’s groovy wind dance.) The Sakura outfit also comes with a claw-machine-inspired Back Bling, a Fighting Tournament Trophy hoe and the Kayari Buta glider, modeled after a ceramic incense burner used to ward off mosquitoes.

Epic Games will hold two versions of a Blanka & Sakura Cup in Fortnite: One is a mobile-only Zero Build Duos Cup taking place on April 27th and the other is a Battle Royale Duos Cup on all platforms taking place on April 28th. The best-performing players in each region can earn the Bonus Stage loading screen, which shows Blanka and Sakura judging street skills against Peely, who apparently parked his car in a handicap parking lot. Which really is not a good look for banana man.

Here is the new Blanka and Sakura loading screen if you want to acquire it by right-clicking.

Blanka and Sakura join previously featured Street Fighter characters Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile and Cammy in Fortnite. The addition of Capcom’s World Warriors is part of a long-running celebration of Street Fighters’ 35th anniversary. The original Street Fighter was released in arcades in the summer of 1987.