{"id":135012,"date":"2023-09-28T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-156137"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:30:00","slug":"epic-games-is-reportedly-laying-off-nearly-900-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/28\/epic-games-is-reportedly-laying-off-nearly-900-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Is Reportedly Laying Off Nearly 900 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Epic Games, the creator of Unreal Engine and the ludicrously popular Fortnite<\/a>, is reportedly laying off 16% of its workforce, which works out at around 900 employees.<\/p>\n

The news comes via Bloomberg<\/a>, with a person familiar with the matter stating that an internal announcement of the job cuts was sent out in a staff memo. In the memo, CEO Tim Sweeney stated \u201cFor a while now, we\u2019ve been spending way more money than we earn. I had long been optimistic that we could power through this transition without layoffs, but in retrospect, I see this was unrealistic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A total of 870 employees will be affected, and Sweeney states that no more job cuts are being planned beyond this. Around two-thirds of the cuts are said to be within teams that lie outside of Epic’s ‘core development’.<\/p>\n

That said, one of the staff members affected was Ed Fear, director and writer at Mediatonic, who worked on titles such as Murder by Numbers<\/a>. Mediatonic was founded in 2005 and was acquired by Epic Games in 2021.<\/p>\n