Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers 'pick up the pieces' after massive layoffs: 'We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond'
May 2, 2026
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Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers ‘pick up the pieces’ after massive layoffs: ‘We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond’

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Yesterday’s layoff of more than 1,000 employees at Epic Games was driven in part by behind-the-scenes issues with Fortnite: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said that “despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we’ve had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season.” Very roughly, 20% of Epic’s workforce was let…

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Nintendo To Change Pricing For Digital & Physical Switch 2 Exclusives, Starting With Yoshi

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Digital to be cheaper than physical going forward. Nintendo of America has just announced that first-party Switch 2 exclusives on the eShop will be getting a different MSRP (that’s manufacturer’s suggested retail price) compared to physical releases. What that means is that, going forward, it’s very likely that digital games will be cheaper that physical…

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The best non-Hitman game from Hitman’s devs wouldn’t have happened if it didn’t blow EA execs’ minds and ‘low expectations’ with a hocus-pocus demo powered mostly by dreams

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These days, we indelibly associate IO Interactive with the Hitman series, but back when the studio was young we… well, we associated it with the Hitman series. It’s been making Hitman for a while, starting with its first game, Hitman: Codename 47, all the way back in 2000. But after releasing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin…

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“Playboy Bunnies Could Never Take Their Shoes Off” – Brenda Romero On The Sims-Esque “Hugh-Hefner-’em-up,” Playboy: The Mansion

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“I feel like I made an adventure game starring Hugh Hefner”. The award-winning designer Brenda Romero has a piece of advice for developers wishing to make great games: “Look at whatever company you want to work for and see what their Metacritic rating is.” If the Metacritic score is 85 or higher, “go join that…

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The companions in Owlcat’s new Mass Effect-inspired RPG stand ready to have heart-to-heart chats, drag you into their sidequests, and blow a lot of stuff up

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Over the past eight years, Owlcat Games has built a reputation for making some of the best modern isometric RPGs (after a bit of patching, at least!), including Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. And though it’s clearly not giving up on that genre any time soon (there’s a follow-up to Rogue Trader on…

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