{"id":1552562,"date":"2026-04-13T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/RrR2dqYz9sAwauZinJD9EU"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:11:15","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"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’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the wake of severe layoffs<\/a> last month, Epic’s increasingly looking to the House of Mouse to shore up its flagging fortunes, per a recent report from Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2014far and away Epic’s chief money-printing instrument\u2014since 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.<\/p>\n

But Sweeney and other Epic direction-setters hope Mickey can sort it, it seems. Disney’s $1.5 billion investment<\/a> 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<\/a>, so I’m all in favour.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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.”<\/p>\n

I’ve reached out to Epic to ask about all this, and will update if I hear back.<\/p>\n

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