Epic Lays Off An Employee With Terminal Brain Cancer Who Can’t Get Life Insurance Now

Kotaku | 29.03.2026 21:42
Last week, Epic Games announced it was laying off over 1,000 employees to “keep the company funded.” One of them was Mike Prinke, a programmer writer who had been at the Fortnite maker for just under seven years. Over the weekend, his wife, Jenni Griffin, shared in a Facebook post that Prinke was facing terminal brain cancer and would be losing his life insurance due to the cuts.