Disney has introduced that it’s partnering with Epic Video games, having invested $1.5 billion into the studio for an fairness stake. In its announcement, Disney has said that the funding is a part of a multi-year partnership to convey content material from Disney’s properties to Fortnite.
As a part of the partnership, Epic Video games and Disney can be creating a brand new persistent universe primarily based on numerous Disney properties ranging throughout its numerous divisions, together with Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars. As a part of the brand new undertaking, gamers will be capable to make their very own experiences with Disney properties, all of which can be powered by Unreal Engine.
“Our thrilling new relationship with Epic Video games will convey collectively Disney’s beloved manufacturers and franchises with the massively widespread Fortnite in a transformational new video games and leisure universe,” mentioned Disney CEO Robert Iger. “This marks Disney’s greatest entry ever into the world of video games and provides vital alternatives for development and enlargement. We are able to’t anticipate followers to expertise the Disney tales and worlds they love in groundbreaking new methods.”
“Disney was one of many first corporations to imagine within the potential of bringing their worlds along with ours in Fortnite, they usually use Unreal Engine throughout their portfolio,” mentioned Epic Video games CEO and founder Tim Sweeney. “Now we’re collaborating on one thing solely new to construct a persistent, open and interoperable ecosystem that can convey collectively the Disney and Fortnite communities.”
“It will allow us to convey collectively our unbelievable assortment of tales and experiences from throughout the corporate for a broad viewers in methods we now have solely dreamed of earlier than,” mentioned Disney Experiences chairman Josh D’Amaro. “Epic Video games’ industry-leading expertise and Fortnite’s open ecosystem will assist us attain customers the place they’re to allow them to interact with Disney within the methods which are most related to them.”
Except for the brand new persistent world, neither Disney nor Epic Video games have launched any particulars about additional collaborations between the 2 corporations. Nevertheless, it wouldn’t be out of the query to begin seeing Disney characters and environments making their method into the primary battle royale recreation mode of Fortnite.
Fortnite itself has been no stranger to collaborations with completely different corporations and properties, starting from Japanese properties like Dragon Ball and Naruto, to Western properties like John Wick.
