Epic Games is shutting down 'Houseparty' social video-chat app


From launch through August 2021, Houseparty had about 102.6 million installs globally from across the Apple App Store and Google Play, per estimates from mobile research firm Sensor Tower. — Epic Games

LOS ANGELES: Epic Games said it will shut down Houseparty, the live video-chat app that the company bought two years ago – evidently concluding that the app is not financially sustainable.

Houseparty announced Thursday that it will discontinue the app in October. According to a blog post on its site, the team behind Houseparty is "working on creating new ways to have meaningful and authentic social interactions at metaverse scale across the Epic Games family."

Houseparty employees are expected to be redeployed to work on other projects within Epic.

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