In August 2022, Epic Games—developers of Fortnite, custodians of the Epic Games Store, creators of the Unreal Engine, rich as God—published a melee-based battle royale game called Rumbleverse. It is now January 2023 (February already for me here in Australia), and the game is already being killed off.
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Here are some impressions written by Zack in September 2022—you might remember September 2022, it only just happened—in which he said that, despite the battle royale genre getting a little tired and Epic themselves already having Fortnite, it was pretty good!
Womp.
The decision to shut the game down was announced earlier today by developers Iron Galaxy:
They followed that up with a short statement on their company site, in which they share hopes that just because Epic is killing the game off doesn’t mean it’s dead forever, and that “You may not yet have seen the Rumble in its final form”:
