Epic has rocked the video game industry by laying off 16% of its workforce, nearly 900 people. While layoffs and studio closures and game cancellations are all too common in the industry, this was worse than usual, given the context in which they took place.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s a shame, Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days, and Unreal engine and the Unreal Tournament games were great. But I think he’s better off being a programmer, you can’t treat the real business world like program code.

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days

      Digital Extremes also did, since UT’99 I believe. And they are still okay. Their current f2p game feels better than UT3 ever did, if not for it’s own problems.