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This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. While it is unfortunately not an uncommon news story to see layoffs in the video game ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States who has been working with GameRant since August 2023 and self-publishing since May 2025. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting today, the Fortnite Unreal Editor is getting a suite of Star Wars assets that will let fans anywhere make their own games in a galaxy far, far away. This isn't just a collection of ...

Michael Ingram is a Senior Contributor from the United States of America. Michael has been writing for GameRant since 2021, writing both analytically and fiction for years beforehand. Michael is a ...

The Fortnite craze might have reached its crescendo. Epic Games announced layoffs of 1,000 employees Tuesday, citing declining Fortnite engagement. "We've had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite ...