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Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced it is laying off 1,000 staff, due to a "downturn in engagement" in its evergreen battle royale. In a message to staff shared publicly this morning, Epic ...

Video game publisher Epic Games is laying off 1,000 workers, citing a drop in engagement with its signature title, Fortnite. In a memo to employees (read it in full below), CEO Tim Sweeney noted that ...

Alex Co has been writing about games for 15 years and running, and is a huge fan of online shooters and anything horror related. Today, Epic Games released Chapter 7 Season 2: Showdown for all ...

Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, is cutting more than 1,000 jobs across the company as leadership cites a drop in players over the last year. “We’re spending significantly more than we’re making ...

What the public is now seeing, then, is a company with arguably unreasonable pricing further jacking up those numbers ... just to lay people off anyway. If the Fortnite community was unhappy before, ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Epic Games recently conducted mass layoffs affecting 1,000 people at the Fortnite studio, and the cuts included the character artist who created ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. UPDATE: As of about 5 AM PT, Fortnite is back online and Chapter 7 Season 2 has begun. Having lasted about three months and three weeks, Fortnite ...

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