Fortnite Dev Lays Off Staff, Shutting Down Games
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced significant layoffs affecting over 1,000 employees, citing a decline in Fortnite's player engagement and overall industry challenges. This restructuring includes shutting down several games like Rocket Racing and Festival Battle Stage, while raising the price of in-game currency V-Bucks to improve revenue. Sweeney emphasized these cuts are for sustainability and unrelated to AI development.
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- Entities
- Electronic Arts
- Microsoft
- Unreal Engine 5
- Sony
- Horizon Chase 2
- Epic Games
- Layoffs
- Unreal Engine 6
- Fortnite
- Horizon Chase
- Tim Sweeney
- Rocket Racing
- Festival Battle Stage
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