{"id":999204,"date":"2026-03-25T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999204"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:25:03","slug":"epic-games-to-cut-more-than-1000-jobs-as-fortnite-usage-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/epic-games-to-cut-more-than-1000-jobs-as-fortnite-usage-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games to cut more than 1,000 jobs as Fortnite usage falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games said on Tuesday it would cut more than 1,000 jobs after a drop in engagement for &#8220;Fortnite,&#8221; its flagship title, the latest cuts in the video-game industry whose growth has stalled amid economic uncertainty. <\/p>\n<p>The cuts, along with more than $500 \u200cmillion in \u2060savings from lower \u2060contracting and marketing spending and unfilled roles would put the company in &#8220;a more stable place,&#8221; Chief Executive Tim Sweeney said in a note to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games said on Tuesday it would cut more than 1,000 jobs after a drop in engagement for &#8220;Fortnite,&#8221; its flagship title, the latest cuts in the video-game industry whose growth has stalled amid economic uncertainty. The cuts, along with more than $500 \u200cmillion in \u2060savings from lower \u2060contracting and marketing spending and unfilled roles would put the company in &#8220;a more stable place,&#8221; Chief Executive Tim Sweeney said in a note to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}