{"id":40383,"date":"2026-03-25T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/tim-sweeney-is-killing-fortnite-with-metaverse-crap-laying-off-1000-employees\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:55:15","slug":"tim-sweeney-is-killing-fortnite-with-metaverse-crap-laying-off-1000-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/tim-sweeney-is-killing-fortnite-with-metaverse-crap-laying-off-1000-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Sweeney is killing Fortnite with metaverse crap, laying off 1,000 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,000 Epic employees were laid off today due to a \u201cdownturn in Fortnite engagement\u201d that left the company \u201cspending significantly more than we\u2019re making.\u201d The mass layoffs are an attempt to cut costs in various departments, with CEO Tim Sweeney pointing to issues like slower growth&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/tim-sweeney-killing-fortnite\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,000 Epic employees were laid off today due to a \u201cdownturn in Fortnite engagement\u201d that left the company \u201cspending significantly more than we\u2019re making.\u201d The mass layoffs are an attempt to cut costs in various departments, with CEO Tim Sweeney pointing to issues like slower growth&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}