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Epic is reportedly cooking up a Disney extraction shooter, and suggestions staff are lukewarm on it are 'not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration'
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In the wake of severe layoffs last month, Epic's increasingly looking to the House of Mouse to shore up its flagging fortunes, per a recent report from Bloomberg.
At the time of the layoffs, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney wrote that the company was "spending significantly more" than it was making thanks to a slump in engagement with Fortnite—far and away Epic's chief money-printing instrument—since 2025. "Despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we've had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season," wrote Sweeney.
But Sweeney and other Epic direction-setters hope Mickey can sort it, it seems. Disney's $1.5 billion investment in Epic two years ago will bear its first fruit in November, in the form of a Disney-themed extraction shooter starring the corporation's characters. Which sounds like a great way to get a lot more videos of Goofy melodramatically buying the farm, so I'm all in favour.
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Per Bloomberg's unnamed sources, internal responses to the game have been, ah, a little underwhelming. In particular, there are concerns at the company that the game's mechanics might not be the most original, though Epic's senior director of global communications Liz Markman has come out and said that Bloomberg's description of the situation is "not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration. We are building a new games and entertainment universe of Disney experiences."
I've reached out to Epic to ask about all this, and will update if I hear back.