{"id":230489,"date":"2026-03-24T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/epic-games-lays-off-over-1000-employees\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:20:51","slug":"epic-games-lays-off-over-1000-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/epic-games-lays-off-over-1000-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Information on today&#8217;s layoffs<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ota1m1FCnK\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ota1m1FCnK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpicNewsroom\/status\/2036449915329507436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another day, another round of layoffs in the video game industry.<\/p>\n<p>After recent backlash against Epic Games for increasing V Bucks pricing, now here comes multi-billionaire CEO Tim Sweeney announcing the layoff of 1,000 employees at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but they have millions to payout to shitty creator maps but I digress\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince it&#8217;s a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren&#8217;t related to AI,\u201d wrote Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>Fortnite modes Rocket Racing, Ballistic and Festival Battle Stage are also shutting down as a result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EpicNewsroom\/status\/2036449915329507436?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132111127.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information on today&#8217;s layoffshttps:\/\/t.co\/ota1m1FCnK \u2014 Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) March 24, 2026 Another day, another round of layoffs in the video game industry. After recent backlash against Epic Games for increasing V Bucks pricing, now here comes multi-billionaire CEO Tim Sweeney announcing the layoff of 1,000 employees at the company. Oh, but they have millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}