Fortis Video games, a studio behind cell titles like Twilight Towers and Bloom & Breakfast, has closed its doorways, impacting round 440 jobs.
CEO Steven Chiang confirmed the closure in a press release to GamesBeat on November 10, 2026. “Fortis has been a labor of affection for therefore many people and we’re upset we weren’t capable of obtain the targets we set for ourselves once we began this journey greater than 5 years in the past,” he advised the outlet.
“We’ve got been lucky to work with a few of the most proficient and devoted folks on this area. As we transfer ahead, our main focus will probably be on serving to this proficient staff of people discover new alternatives. Thanks to everybody who has supported us over the previous 5 years. We’re grateful for the collaboration and friendship we’ve shared with so many.”
A number of former staff have spoken out in regards to the closure in posts on LinkedIn. In one in all these posts, sport producer Gustavo Coronet confirmed that Las Vegas Sands Corp., Fortis Video games’ mother or father firm, selected to “finish funding and half methods, terminating all the contracts, worldwide.”
“Tremendous happy with the work we’ve finished. LVS’s resolution doesn’t delete the bottom breaking and best-in class agentic improvement workflow the Octopus staff has constructed, nor the massively stable comfortable launch metrics each our initiatives had been reaching in such early levels of improvement,” he wrote.
In one other put up, former communications director Scott Butterworth prompt that Fortis’s “community-focused” strategy to cell video games didn’t resonate sufficient with gamers to assist it “get off the bottom.”
“Ah, Fortis Video games — what may have been. Regardless of our distinctive, community-focused strategy to the cell video games market, we simply could not appear to get off the bottom, and as we speak, we lastly ran out of runway,” he wrote.
“The corporate has formally shuttered, abruptly placing greater than 400 proficient folks out of labor (myself included). Hilariously, I am additionally within the strategy of relocating to Los Angeles, so hey, why not add a little bit extra change on prime, proper?”
Fortis Gaming was based in 2022 by Steven Chiang, former government at Digital Arts and Zynga. Primarily based out of San Francisco, California, it was funded by Las Vegas Sands Corp. to assist the on line casino model increase exterior of playing. Fortis went on to accumulate a number of video games studios over the following 4 years; on November 4, it introduced that it was sunsetting Twilight Towers, a transfer that got here a mere week earlier than Fortis’s whole closure.
That is the most recent sport studio to close its doorways after EA revealed that it had closed down BioWare, well-known for AAA RPG collection like Mass Effect and Dragon Age — a choice that has confirmed to be extraordinarily unpopular amongst gamers, who at the moment are campaigning for EA to do something, something, with its IP to prevent them from languishing in obscurity.
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