Lady Gaga is finally coming to Fortnite

Musician, actor and fashion icon Lady Gaga visits Fortnite later this week as part of the famous Fortnite Festival.

On Tuesday, Gaga herself confirmed her highly anticipated appearance in Epic Games and Harmonix’s music-focused game mode on X (formerly Twitter), responding to her viral tweet from 2019 which read: ‘What is fortnight’ with the funny correction ‘*fortnite’. The new post also includes what appears to be an in-game shot of Lady Gaga Fortnite fashion model.

Since that tweet went viral almost five years ago – it has over 863,000 likes to date – Fortnite Fans have been lobbying for Lady Gaga to join the battle royale-turned-metaverse game. She will join fellow pop artists Marshmello, Travis Scott, Bruno Mars, Eminem, Ariana Grande and others as part of Fortnite – although it is not yet clear to what extent Gaga will appear.

Gaga’s tweet about the Fortnite Festival says she will join the game on February 22, which is also the launch date for Music Mode Season 2. It implies that a version of her outfit from the Chromatica album and tour will be part of the game.

Fortnite Festival launched on December 9 with the addition of musician/actor The Weeknd. A variety of artist and instrument skins based on The Weeknd were released at the time Fortnite‘s battle pass, and Lady Gaga’s drop will likely follow a similar structure.

The Fortnite Festival component consists of two modes: Main Stage, where players can form a band and play along to songs a la Harmonix’s Rock Band games; and Jam Stage, where players can remix multiple songs into pieced improvisations.