Disney has offered an replace on how its partnership with Epic Games to create video games and experiences for Fortnite is coming alongside, and it is nonetheless a while off. In a blog post, Disney stated Fortnite’s all new “video games and leisure universe” themed round Disney remains to be “a couple of years away.”
Disney additionally reiterated what it is hoping to realize with this partnership, which noticed Disney make investments an extra $1.5 billion into Epic Games. Disney stated followers can consider it like “a spot the place all of your favourite Disney characters and worlds converge in a single related universe.”
On this related universe inside Fortnite, Disney followers can “watch, play, and even create [their] personal adventures.”
It sounds just like Epic’s cope with Lego, which noticed Lego make investments important capital into Epic Games to create what would ultimately develop into Lego Fortnite. That sport exists as one in all a number of distinct video games/experiences on Fortnite, alongside titles like Rocket Racing and Fortnite Competition, along with the unique battle royale sport.
Whereas Disney followers have to attend some time longer for the official Disney/Fortnite expertise, Disney villains Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, and Captain Hook are coming to Fortnite this fall. From Pixar, members of The Incredibles are coming to Fortnite, additionally this fall; and the subsequent set of Star Wars characters and items–IG-11, Moff Gideon, and Grogu again bling–are coming this week.
From the world of Marvel, a brand new Marvel-themed Fortnite season known as Absolute Doom begins on August 16. Physician Doom himself headlines this replace, which incorporates “new action-packed gameplay and places to discover.”
In different information about Disney, the corporate simply introduced main enlargement plans for its theme parks around the globe.