@gamesdotgg: 1047 Games has announced it is ending active development on both Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, with the studio confirming neither game is generating enough revenue to cover ongoing costs. It is a painful fall from grace for a studio that not long ago looked like one of gaming's great success stories. The original Splitgate went viral in 2021 - a free-to-play Halo meets Portal mashup that hit 13 million downloads while still in open beta, attracted 200,000 peak concurrent players, and secured $100 million in funding that valued the studio at $1.5 billion. CEO Ian Proulx at the time talked openly about becoming the next Riot Games. Nothing clicked after that. Splitgate 2 launched in June 2025, was pulled back almost immediately, relaunched as Splitgate: Arena Reloaded in December, and has since averaged around 250 daily concurrent players on Steam. Empulse, a $19.99 Titanfall-inspired movement shooter released in June 2026, peaked at under 2,900 concurrent players and has been falling steadily ever since. Both games will remain online and playable. #splitgate #splitgate2 #splitgatearenawarfare #fpsgames #gamingnews
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Trblworld :
Didn’t empulse just drop like 2 months ago 😭
2026-08-26 21:10:16
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🐲 :
How many times is splitgate gonna fail dude
2026-08-26 23:45:31
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mcsimeon :
shouldn't have abandoned split gate 1
2026-08-26 20:03:35
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FenrirsFolly :
Isn’t that the same game with the guy who was saying “make FPS great again”?😂😂
2026-08-26 21:35:40
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Jade :
if empulse was f2p id try it but asking $40(I think) is way too much
2026-08-27 02:21:02
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Raz :
Splitgate COULD have been fun, but the sweats ruined it imo
2026-08-27 04:12:04
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Rootz :
they either need to stop altogether or make a normal 6v6 shooter in modern era with creat a class like cod but not cod
2026-08-27 09:43:17
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Waltz Creations :
they had a good game going with splitgate 2 and then they destroyed it by making it into a battle royale
2026-08-27 13:09:50
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Lll jay :
So do I get a refund
2026-08-26 20:53:41
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sam :
I said this a million times they scrapped their last 2 games and kept copy pasting the same game and yall fell for it each time.😂
2026-08-26 21:26:55
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… :
This studio needs to be closed
2026-08-26 21:10:29
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ItzNameless :
well that was a short use of 20 dollars
2026-08-26 20:16:12
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🇻🇦 :
cant wait for splitgate 3. it’ll be different this time!
2026-08-27 00:48:52
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🌕✨Stellar_Geo✨🌕 :
empulse had so much potential but my god it got boring really fast
2026-08-27 00:14:30
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ThePsychoTitan :
Unfortunately they made games that have a slight learning curve so most gamers don't like them cuz theyre dogshit at pvp. Bad times to want a shooter with a decent learning curve
2026-08-27 10:18:53
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KEKWcow :
and people were all in my butt about split gate 2 being a success 💀
2026-08-26 20:39:12
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Diego's not here :
the studio needs to pack it up atp
2026-08-27 14:35:22
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OfficialADub :
Yeah because they put out a base model after base model. You can’t just bring out a very simple game with one cool feature. The Finals added destruction and character variants to at least keep things interesting, but look how that turned out. You’ve gotta go balls to the wall. If they made a COD killer like XDefiant, they might have something
2026-08-27 16:47:02
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Adam :
Who could have ever seen this coming from the company that starts and ends project after project month after month?
2026-08-27 03:53:17
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Prince :
they literally have a gold mine right infront of them AND THEY KEEP WALKING PAST IT
2026-08-27 09:31:50
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ismaaaaa¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
3 flops😭
2026-08-27 12:37:18
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Luke Hoffman :
The reason I didn’t buy Empulse. I thought it looked interesting but with the $20 price tag I wasn’t gonna pay for a game I knew would fail with the company’s track record. I don’t think 1047 has released a game that I thought was bad by any means but they seem to struggle with keeping people invested in their games
2026-08-27 14:56:53
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hudrymudrybub :
Could have sold the first Splitgate to Epic Games for 1 billion btw
2026-08-27 13:47:51
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