Fall Guys studio Mediatonic hit hard by Epic layoffs, director shares logo rearranged to "Decimation"

Fortnite giant Epic Games is now offering 100 per cent revenue to developers and publishers to sell their back catalogue titles on its storefront.

Turkish developer Vawraek Studios has released a bevy of information about their upcoming title The Quinfall throughout their social media over the past week. The information dump included a few choice screenshots, and some base class and subclass details that dive into their weaponry as well.

Sonic Frontiers: Final Horizon is a free update that no one expected. At least, not before the announcement quite shortly after Frontiers’ release. Within the wake of Frontiers’ success came a rise of new hope, a resurgence of the Sonic formula that would take fans for a victory lap around well-trodden grounds in the Starfall Islands.

A dispute between Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard and the makers of Chinese strategy game Myth of Empires has come to a happy ending, as all parties involved say they're now going to work together to «re-release» Myth of Empires on Steam and other platforms in early 2024.

Joker director Todd Phillips marked four years since the movie's release by sharing a new look at the upcoming sequel.

Last week, you may recall that Fortnite creator Epic Games made the news by announcing mass layoffs. Around 830 people lost their jobs that day, which makes up roughly 16 percent of the entire company's workforce. Epic justified the layoffs by admitting that the company had been "spending way more money than we earn" in trying to turn Fortnite into a "Metaverse-inspired ecosystem", claiming that revenue sharing with content creators doesn't make as much cash as when Fortnite originally took off.

In the latest in a string of whirlwind layoffs in the games-and-games-adjacent industry, it appears there has been another round of layoffs at Twitch, according to Today Off Stream’s Zach Bussey via Twitter. 

2023 has sadly been a year that has seen consistent widespread layoffs in the games industry, and recent days and weeks have seen another flurry of those, with the likes of Creative Assembly, Epic Games, and others having been hit with layoffs. Another company has, unfortunately, now joined that list.

The beans have new friends in Buzz and Woody, as these two characters arrive in a Fall Guys–Toy Story crossover this week. The official Twitter page announced the news on Monday. Epic Games has provided no specific timing. This comes shortly after the announcement of a price hike of the in-game currency Show-Bucks last week.

Fortnite developer Epic Games is set to lay off 870 employees as it seeks to lower costs, a Bloomberg report reveals. In a memo sent to workers earlier today, chief executive officer Tim Sweeney said the company had been spending a lot more money than it was earning for quite some time. He said: «I had long been optimistic that we could power through this transition without layoffs, but in retrospect I see this was unrealistic.»

Epic Games recently laid off 16% of its workforce, which is around 830 employees, and in the aftermath of the news, there has been some confusion regarding how that has impacted Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout developer Mediatonic, which is owned by Epic. Though initial rumours claimed that the entire studio had been laid off, subsequent reports have said that though the studio has indeed impacted by Epic’s layoffs, rumours of the entire team being let go are exaggerated.

Fortnite is to increase the price of its in-game currency V-Bucks in a number of countries, including the US and across Europe. While publisher Epic Games attributed the decision to economic factors - citing previous “pricing alignment” in countries including the UK over the summer - the move will follow hundreds of job losses at the company, partially as the result of lower than expected revenue for their immensely popular battle royale shooter.