1047 Games is ending active development on Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, moving both titles to peer-to-peer hosting as the studio signals a broader shift away from live service shooters after ten years.
In a post on X earlier today, the studio said neither game is generating enough revenue to cover the ongoing cost of dedicated servers. It said it had kept covering those costs to give both titles a chance to grow, but had reached a point where doing so was "no longer sustainable."
"We have loved working on these games, playing them, and building them with this community, and we wish we could continue supporting them," the studio said.
From September 3, dedicated servers and matchmaking will shut down for both games, moving them to peer-to-peer hosting with a server browser instead, so players can continue hosting and finding matches. Empulse will get one final new map and a price cut across all regions as part of what the studio called the game's final update.
1047 Games took the same approach with the original Splitgate, which moved to peer-to-peer hosting last year after its dedicated servers went offline, and remains playable today, including on console.
Splitgate 2 released in June 2025 amid a flurry of controversy, which included a MAGA-style "Make FPS Great Again" hat and a $145 cosmetic bundle . Within a month, 1047 Games laid off an undisclosed number of developers, and then a month later, pushed the game "back to beta" and initiated a second wave of layoffs .
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