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«Empires don’t collapse all at once»: an analyst made a sad forecast for Epic Games, which is laying off employees
Gaming News April 7, 2026, 11:34 AMFortnite is still one of the most popular games in the world. But even with this in mind, Epic Games has entered a dark period that is difficult to survive without losses. This was stated by analyst Joost van Dreunen. -
Among the Epic Games employees who were fired was a programmer with an incurable form of brain cancer, and his family is desperate
Gaming News March 30, 2026, 08:30 AMThe situation with mass layoffs at Epic Games turned out to be much more serious than it might have initially seemed. It turned out that among the dismissed employees was a man with an incurable form of brain cancer, and now he has to urgently look for a replacement for his insurance policy, Dexerto reports. -
Gaming News March 28, 2026, 05:01 PMFormer Valve writer Chet Faliszek — one of the creators of Half-Life 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and CS:GO — released a video harshly criticizing Epic Games and personally Tim Sweeney following the wave of layoffs at the company. More than a thousand employees were affected, and several modes in Fortnite were also shut down.
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Gaming News March 26, 2026, 01:59 AMFollowing the announcement of over 1,000 layoffs at Epic Games, company CEO Tim Sweeney posted a message on X that quickly turned into a meme.
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Gaming News March 24, 2026, 08:04 PMOne in five employees will be affected by the cuts. According to Tim Sweeney, “the current state of the gaming market is the toughest it has been in many years”: users are spending less, current-gen consoles are selling worse than the previous generation, and games are finding it increasingly difficult to compete for audience attention with other forms of entertainment.
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Gaming News March 17, 2026, 02:40 PMWhile Fortnite and Unreal Engine generate billions, Tim Sweeney is spending millions to protect wildlife. The billionaire has already safeguarded more than 200 square kilometers of forest.
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Gaming News March 5, 2026, 03:20 PMFortnite is coming back to the Google Play store worldwide soon. This was stated by the head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney.
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Fortnite Stronger Than AI: Tim Sweeney Calculates 30GW in the Fortnite Player Base—More Than the Top 500 Supercomputers Combined
Hardware and Technologies February 25, 2026, 05:39 PMWhile AI giants are desperately buying up chips and building data centers by the megawatt, it turns out the world's most powerful "supercomputer" has been running right under our noses. The head of Epic Games decided to bring high tech back down to earth, comparing the army of Fortnite fans to the industry's heavyweights. The result is a fascinating comparison that reveals the sheer scale of the distributed infrastructure made up of everyday players. -
Gaming News January 30, 2026, 04:55 PMThe head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, continues to speak out against his main competitor, Steam. This time, he supported a $900 million lawsuit filed against Valve.
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Gaming News January 23, 2026, 05:23 AMRemedy Entertainment has publicly defended Tim Sweeney amid discussions about potential sales losses for Alan Wake 2 due to the game’s absence on Steam.
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Gaming News January 22, 2026, 03:10 PMThe Epic Games Store is investing in attracting new users and supporting developers, while the Steam management is spending money on yachts and diamond teeth. This was stated by the head of Epic Games Tim Sweeney.
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Gaming News December 25, 2025, 10:05 PMFortnite experienced a major outage over the holiday period, leaving many players around the world unable to log in or join matches. The disruption affected both consoles and PC, with monitoring services like Downdetector reporting thousands of complaints about login and connection issues.
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Gaming News December 1, 2025, 05:00 AM
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Gaming News November 27, 2025, 07:42 PMThe «Made with AI» tag should disappear from the Steam game pages because it no longer makes sense. This was stated by Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games.
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Hardware and Technologies November 19, 2025, 06:18 PMMicrosoft's aggressive push to integrate AI into Windows 11 keeps the company constantly in the spotlight. This time, however, the reaction took an unexpected turn, drawing the heads of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, and entrepreneur Elon Musk into a public discussion about the OS's future, where they highlighted two long-standing issues.
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Gaming News November 16, 2025, 11:38 AMAt Unreal Fest Japan, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney shared the first details about the upcoming Unreal Engine 6. According to him, the new version of the engine could be launched in roughly two and a half years — so potentially by 2028.
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Hardware and Technologies August 28, 2025, 11:39 AMEpic Games CEO Tim Sweeney responded to widespread player complaints about performance in UE5 titles at Unreal Fest 2025, suggesting the root cause lies in development practices, not the engine itself.
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Hardware and Technologies May 2, 2025, 05:45 AMEpic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney recently appeared on Lex Fridman’s podcast, where he shared new details about the future of Unreal Engine 6 (UE6).
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