In addition, Sweeney revealed that Fortnite managed a new peak milestone over the holidays, reaching a frankly astonishing 110 million monthly active users. Released in 2018, the undeniably enduring game managed to pull almost 45 million players in a single day with Fortnite OG.

In September 2023, the North Carolina studio behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine suffered a significant round of layoffs that saw 830 employees, about 16% of its workforce, lose the

Like so many tech companies, Epic Games grew aggressively at the start of the 2020s and then suddenly declared that it had made a mistake. The Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker cut over 800 jobs last year and maimed and sold off Bandcamp, a website it had purchased just a year earlier.

Epic Games is now financially sound and there's no economic hurdles facing the publisher-and-platform operator--Fortnite is at an all-time peak right now.