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Fortnite layoffs are another consequence of gaming giving into big tech’s fads

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Epic's pursuit of the metaverse fad is to blame

Fortnite Sign in to your Polygon.com account Patch Notes is a weekly newsletter bringing you the best of Polygon, sent on Fridays and published on the site on Sundays. You can subscribe here . It’s never a good look when the company running what is still, inarguably, one of the most popular and successful games in the world lays off 1,000 people , as happened with Fortnite maker Epic Games this week. It makes you ask questions like: Is the game industry doomed? Or, alternatively: What the hell was Epic spending all its money (an estimated $6 billion of annual revenue) on, anyway? I asked some

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