{"id":719110,"date":"2026-04-10T22:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/719110\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:48:16","slug":"epic-games-pins-fortnite-comeback-on-disney-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/719110\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Pins \u2018Fortnite\u2019 Comeback on Disney Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">When Epic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-24\/fortnite-maker-epic-games-cuts-about-1-000-jobs-across-company\" title=\"Epic Games Cuts About 1,000 Jobs Amid \u2018Fortnite\u2019 Slump (1)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">laid off<\/a> 1,000 employees as part of a $500 million cost-saving effort last month, it came with a startling acknowledgment: Many new games and Fortnite updates had flopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">On April 16, the company will shut down Fortnite Ballistic mode, a faster-paced take on the popular shooting title, and Fortnite Festival Battle Stage, which added a musical component. Rocket Racing, where players compete in rocket-power cars, will go offline in October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Epic Games laid off 1,000 employees as part of a $500 million cost-saving effort last month, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":719111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[61142,4960,6146,64,17010,101419,171,519,158,67,132,68,298578,924,64066],"class_list":["post-719110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-apple-inc","tag-automotive","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-embark","tag-entertainment","tag-north-carolina","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-valve-corp","tag-video-games","tag-walt-disney-co-the"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116382853050180365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}