Epic Games has announced sweeping layoffs of more than 1,000 employees. “The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we’re spending significantly more than we’re making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded,” CEO Tim Sweeney said in a memo to workers on Tuesday.
Sweeney wrote that, combined with “over $500 million of identified cost savings in contracting, marketing, and closing some open roles,” the layoffs will give Epic more stability. He added that the layoffs are not related to AI.
Back in 2023, Epic laid off 830 employees. At the time, that was 16 percent of its workforce, suggesting around 4,000 employees remained at the company. If those numbers haven’t changed too much in the meantime, that means Epic is culling around a quarter of its headcount this week.
Along with a dip in Fortnite engagement, Sweeney pointed out that Epic isn’t immune from systemic issues the games industry is contending with, such as a slowdown in growth, reduced spending, “tougher cost economics” and a battle with other types of media for consumer’s attention.
However, Epic has some issues of its own to deal with. “Despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we’ve had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season; we’re only in the early stages of returning to mobile and optimizing Fortnite for the world’s billions of smartphones; and in being the industry’s vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers,” Sweeney wrote. (He previously said Epic spent over $100 million in legal fees alone on its App Store battle with Apple.)
The path forward for the company, per its CEO, is to create “awesome Fortnite experiences with fresh seasonal content, gameplay, story and live events,” perhaps in an attempt to recapture some of that “magic” he’s referring to. Speeding up work on developer tools amid the transition to Unreal Engine 6 is important as well, Sweeney indicated.
He said that the workers Epic is laying off will receive at least four months of their base pay, though they’ll get more depending on the length of their tenure at the company. Epic will pay for extended healthcare coverage, including for six months for affected workers in the US. The company — which is not publicly traded — will speed up the vesting of stock options through next January and “extend equity exercise options for up to two years,” Sweeney said.
Epic announced the layoffs days after it increased the price of Fortnite’s V-bucks currency. “The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills,” it said.
As part of the changes at the company, Epic is killing off three Fortnite modes. Rocket Racing (which was built by Rocket League developer Psyonix) will shut down in October. Fortnite Ballistic — a 5v5 tactical shooter mode — and Festival Battle Stage, which is a competitive version of the Fortnite Festival rhythm game, will vanish on April 16. “We’ve built a lot of Fortnite modes, and in some cases we failed to build something awesome enough to attract and retain a large player base,” Epic said on X.
The company noted in its Year in Review recap last month that although the hours that players spent in third-party titles on the Epic Games Store increased by four percent in 2025, “overall gameplay hours declined year over year,” hinting at a dip in Fortnite numbers. The company said PC players spent $1.16 billion on the store in 2025, an increase of six percent from the previous year. Of that, $400 million was spent on third-party PC games. However, Epic Games Store vice president and general manager Steve Allison told Polygon in February that, factoring in first-party revenue and the 12 percent cut the company takes from third-party games, “the store is already — even with all this stuff — marginally profitable now.”
Here is the full memo Sweeney shared with Epic’s employees on Tuesday:
Today we’re laying off over 1000 Epic employees. I’m sorry we’re here again. The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we’re spending significantly more than we’re making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded. This layoff, together with over $500 million of identified cost savings in contracting, marketing, and closing some open roles puts us in a more stable place.
Some of the challenges we’re facing are industry-wide challenges: slower growth, weaker spending, and tougher cost economics; current consoles selling less than last generation’s; and games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment.
And some of our challenges are unique to Epic. Despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we’ve had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season; we’re only in the early stages of returning to mobile and optimizing Fortnite for the world’s billions of smartphones; and in being the industry’s vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers.
Since it’s a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren’t related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can.
What we now need to do is clear: build awesome Fortnite experiences with fresh seasonal content, gameplay, story, and live events; accelerate developer tools with greater stability and capability as we evolve from Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN to Unreal Engine 6. And we’ll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.
This isn’t our first time being here. Epic survived upheavals in 1990’s with the move from 2D to 3D with Unreal 1; in the 2000’s building console games with Gears of War; and in 2012 moving to online gaming with Paragon and Fortnite. Each time, we rebuilt our foundations and earned a renewed leadership position.
Market conditions today are the most extreme we’ve seen since those early days, with massive upheaval in the industry accompanied by massive opportunity for the companies that come out as winners on the other side. That’s what we’re aiming to do for our players, and we aim to bring other like-minded developers in the industry along on the journey to build an increasingly open and vibrant future of entertainment together.
At Epic, we pride ourselves in only hiring the industry’s best, so it is very painful to part with so many talented people. The folks impacted by the layoffs will receive a severance package that includes at least four months of base pay, with more based on tenure. We’re also extending Epic-paid healthcare coverage.
For example, in the U.S., they’ll receive paid coverage for 6 months. We’ll also accelerate their stock options vesting through January 2027 and extend equity exercise options for up to two years.
We’ll have a company meeting Thursday to talk about the roadmap in more detail.
Apigee is an API management and predictive analytics software tool developed by Sonoa Corporation as Sonoa systems in 2004. Now, Apigee is maintained by Google corporations to help them build cloud-based interfaces. Apigee helps companies secure, design, and scale their application programming Interfaces.
What is Apigee?
Apigee operates through APIs(Application Programming Interface). The APIs created help define interactions occurring between multiple software applications. The original Apigee model operates on cloud, but an Apigee hybrid model may be used to operate on-premise to limit access as per a corporation’s boundaries. Provides solutions for all types of enterprises and industries like education, retail, healthcare, telecommunications, the government, etc.
What is Apigee Edge?
Apigee Edge is a platform for managing and developing application programming interfaces (APIs). This platform uses the proxy layer and edge to abstract the protocol and also helps for your backend services APIs. Apigee Edge platform offers security, rate limiting, data quotas, and analytics.
The above diagram gives the quick view of Apigee edge, now most of the companies use this Apigee Edgeas HTTP for their backend services used in their web services or mobile service development applications. This tool makes it easy for application developers to consume the services and enables them to change the backend service implementations without affecting already existing APIs. And also supports the developers to take advantage of the data analytics, monetization process, portal development, and also other advanced features in Apigee Edge.
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Why should you use Apigee?
Apigee enables you to provide secure access to your services with a well-defined API that is consistent across all of your services, regardless of service implementation.
A consistent API makes it easy for app developers to consume your services.
Apigee allows easy transfer of data among multiple applications and is widely used for legacy applications.
Robust features like full life-cycle management of APIs, i.e., their development, creation, and deployment, make it the best tool.
Its top-notch security alerts you of intrusions and unauthorized access.
Apigee offers unparalleled compatibility making it easier to work on different devices and across multiple platforms.
Measures and monitors what services are being used by your users.
Calculates services used by a user to generate a bill and simplify payment procedures.
Apigee terminology
The following are the fundamental terminologies used by app developers in their day-to-day development services.
API – An Application Programming Interface is a set of protocols, rules, or definitions. These APIs make it easier to consume the application capabilities or data from another application by providing stability and simplicity to the entry points to application logic or data. APIs enable developers to access and reuse the already existing application developed by other developers.
API proxy – This is a kind of façade available on Edge for APIs, HTTP services, and application developments. An API is a set of configuration files, policies, and codes provided by Apigee edge. These API proxies are generated and configured using the Apigee Edge management user interface applications, or they can also be configured locally in any text editor or IDE. API proxy is mainly used as a façade backend service or HTTP services that are developed for mobile applications or web service applications.
API base path and resources – An API is made up of a ‘base path’ and a set of ‘API resources.’ Each API proxy finds a default base path point and optionally available multiple API resource paths. You can simply consider an API as a set of multiple URLs, and all of these URLs share a common base path.
API product – It is a collection of URLs with a combined quota or service plan, which is published by the developer at the time of design. API products can be used as an API package for monetization.
API Package – A collection of API products is represented as a bundle and associated with the rate of plans described in the Monetization process.
App – This is an abbreviation of ‘Application’. It refers to mobile applications that consume APIs. These apps are developed by developers using a variety of programming languages and platforms.
Environment – Environment is a runtime context where you can execute the API proxies. Each API must be added to this environment before any proxy is exposed over the system network.
Organization – It is a container holding Apigee objects like details of Apigee Edge account, API proxies used in Apigee, application interface products, application interface Apigee packages, apps development, and developers.
Policy – A policy is a set of executed atomics, the reusable unit of logic data, and proxy processing flow.
API resource path – A resource path is a uniform resource identifier (URI) used to identify the network path.
Versions – The version of the developer-facing API interface.
Revision – It is a numbered, version-controlled package of policies and configurations used in API proxy. This revision term comes from the various Apigee software upgrades.
Development tools in Apigee Edge
If you are an API developer, you develop it for the consumption of client apps. These APIs are used to create, configure, and monitor API products, API proxy, and also services that enable the creation of HTTP server requests. There are two types of development tools available in Apigee Edge they are,
1) Use the UI
2) Use the Apigee API
1) Use the UI:
This is browser-based tools, developer can use this tool to create, configure, and manage all kinds of API products, API proxies, and HTTP services. The following table describes how to access this UI;
Using this Apigee UI you can perform the following tasks
You can create the API proxies by editing API code and this helps you to trace the request flows through your API proxies.
You can also create API products that store the bundle of proxies to exposure to the client requests.
This manages developers and developer apps.
Helps you to configure your app test and environment products.
This enables the developer to implement javaScript and Node.js applications.
2) Use the Apigee API:
Developers can use this Apigee edge API’s to manage all the API resources in Edge. This API also provides the access request to low-level capabilities that are not used by the Apigee UI.
The following table describes how to use this Apigee API;
This API also stores the data configuration information and also authentication information (for example; username and password). The following API methods are used to access any kind of request, HTTP GET, POST, PUT and DELETE methods.
There are two types of access available under this Apigee Edge API:
a) Authenticating Access:
Before calling any APIs you should authenticate yourself to the respective API. The following are simple ways:
OAuth2
SAML
Basic Auth
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b) Understanding the Apigee API base path:
The following are the path required to access the request;
A base path: this contains your organization name.
An edge point: This tends to the edge resource you’re accessing.
API Development lifecycle
The development of APIs is managed through the lifecycle to ensure maximum functioning from the beginning to the end of the phases mentioned below:
Planning: Any API needs to be strategized to address an issue or requirement. Planning what services the API you are building is the first step.
Building: After a plan is put in place, the next step is to build and assemble the API for service.
Testing: Once an API is built, multiple tests like penetration testing, load testing, UI testing, functional testing, validation testing, security testing, runtime error detection, performance testing, etc., need to be performed to ensure its successful operation across different factors.
Deployment: Stable and secure APIs are deployed or published after all testing is cleared for other developers to use.
Management: The journey doesn’t just end at the deployment phase. Deployed APIs need to be managed and maintained regularly to prevent compromising of security and integrity of APIs.
Monetization: You can choose if you want to offer your APIs for free or monetize them by calculating the need and demand for a particular API.
Retirement: There could be many reasons behind a developer team deciding to retire an API. An API can be retired when :
Technology has advanced, and the API is incompatiblenwith the new systems or software.
The API needs to be updated frequently, and the company is reluctant to incur unnecessary expenditures.
The API’s security has been compromised, and the risk is unresolved.
Key Points of API proxy development
Here are the few major points on characteristics of API Proxies, let me explain the main points,
API’s are the entry points for one application to use the capabilities of another
Here developer implements the APIs to create API proxies with the use of API logics as a sequence of steps that executes in response to the requests from the client’s code. Developers can expose the API proxy by defining the endpoint that contains the URL, resource paths, and HTTP requests, and so on.
You can arrange the sequence of API proxy logics using flows:
While developing any application, data that we used are flows through the application development with the help of Condition logic. In Apigee Edge, the processes are made up of data flows. Flows are nothing but a sequence of stages or steps that are used in the making of an API proxy’s processing path.
You can access the state of data through flow variables created by API proxies
An API proxy can able to access the variable that represents the execution state. Any API user can access these variables from the XML that manages and configures the API proxies and policies. You can even access these variables with the help of any procedural languages like Java, javascript, and python.
You can have API Proxies execute conditionally:
Like other programming languages, the API proxies also have the facility to execute the code conditionally. Conditions are consists of API proxy state and accessible flow variables.
You implement most logic in an API proxy using policies:
Most of the logic that is used in API proxy is considered as Policies. A policy is an Apigee Edge component that encapsulated logic for functional areas such as traffic management, security management.
You can include reusable sets of functionality:
When you created an API proxy that contains logic this logic will be used for multiple places at the time of code execution. Developers can collect other API proxies from multiple places.
You can debug a proxy with the trace tool:
Apigee Edge contains a trace tool mainly used to examine the API proxy execution flow. This tool also supports debugging and testing of proxy execution codes.
You can handle API proxy errors as Faults:
Developers can customize the API client errors just by configuring the fault handler in Apigee Edge. You will get notified by messages when the system finds any fault in API proxy.
The transition from classic Edge UI
Now all the interactions in the Apigee Edge managed by a newly developed Edge user interface (UI). Few major enhancements of this Edge UI are as follows;
API proxy management phase and navigation: this enables users to easily navigate through different API proxy management phases using the new side navigation bar.
Integrated Open API specification editor: You can create and edit open API specifications using the Spec editor which is integrated into the Edge UI design flow.
Simplified API proxy creation using Open API specification: you can easily and quickly create API proxy using any open API specifications that you have already created and imported.
Self-service SAML: this SAML enables the proper authentication for the members of the organizations can be adapted to your identity service.
Hosted targets: run the script language node.Js in any runtime environment hosted by Apigee Edge.
Virtual host management: The user can host multiple domains on a single server to handle and manage the API requests to multiple domain names.
Integrated portal development: Apigee Edge includes tools like simple-to-use and robust portal development tools to build your developer portal and documents.
Improved developer program management: this identity provider used for authentication of the portal that includes information like user registration and sign-in experience.
Asynchronous Custom reports: run these custom reports asynchronously as a background job to analyze and create reports that span a large time interval.
API monitoring: enable the operations team to increase the API availability for mainly application developers and customers.
Security monitoring: now you need to understand how your API proxies are configured for security and also check the runtime conditions that impact the proxy security.
Extensions: integrate the external resources into your API proxies. So that you could integrate google cloud platform services such as Google cloud storage. API uses this Extension at the run time to exchange the requests and interacts with external resources.
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How to create your Apigee Edge Account
Now it’s time to create your first ever Apigee Edge account in your organization. Apigee Edge offers free account creation for a limited time.
To create a free 60-days trial Apigee edge account:
Steps:
1) Go to the link https://login.apigee.com/sign_up.
2) Open the link-> enters the required information.
3) Click the create account button (or sign up).
4) The user account information will send to your email account-> then go to your mail inbox-> click the account Verification.
After that just click the email link, then the browser tab is opened to the login page that is, https://login.apigee.com/login.
5) Now log in with the email and password that you used to sign up.
Apigee activates your account and just log in to the Apigee Edge UI.
Point to be noted:
a) In a few cases, this may take a few minutes for the activation to complete and you will see the progress dialog.
Once your account is activated, the following message appears:
6) Now click the get started to access the Apigee Edge UI.
Sign in and manage your Apigee edge account
The following methods describe how to manage your Apigee Edge account,
To sign in to your Apigee Edge account follow the below steps;
Classic Edge UI (this is for private cloud only): http://ms-ip:9000 where IP is the IP address or server management DNS name.
b) Now enter your Apigee Edge login details (Apigee username and password) -> click the Sign in button.
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Reset your password
Steps:
1) Sign out of your Apigee Edge account.
2) Click the Reset Password -> on the sign-in page-> then it displays the Reset your password page.
3) Enter your Email Address.
4) Click the Send Reset password Link-> that is sent to your email address.
5) Then click the Reset password link -> follow the prompts to reset your password.
6) Now sign in using your new password.
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Advantages of using Apigee Edge
Apigee is designed to suit individuals and small, medium, and large-sized businesses alike.
Apigee offers Apigee Edge pricing plans depending on the number of users: Evaluation Plan, Team Plan, Business Plan, and Enterprise Plan.
Developers are constantly in need of new APIs. Apigee lets producers create API products and make them available for other developers to consume.
Apigee implements consistent government policies to protect APIs and minimize the risk of mal attacks and authenticates access for better monitoring.
Analysis of APIs determines the traffic surges and helps developers track the activity of their applications to enhance the digital experience for users.
Apigee monitors APIs to address concerns and prevent service delays immediately.
The developer portal is an Apigee feature that is much appreciated by many developers. The customizable portal allows quick testing, exploration, and gathering co-related API keys for quick innovation.
Apigee manages microservices rendered to partners and customers through APIs.
Conclusion
Apigee is the most optimal app for developers to create, analyze, secure, deploy, and manage APIs. Apigee helps businesses manage scalability and respond to issues without directly affecting the public APIs and before it reaches the backend servers. It helps run and collaborate with multiple applications and platforms.
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