Earlier this year, Disney announced a partnership with Epic Games, a major collaboration in the video game field through huge investments and plans. This is the latest attempt to enter the video game field. Fortress Night –The studio calls the announcement a “new universe” for fans to interact with the many worlds Disney now owns. And of course, there’s shopping, so naturally, that’s where we started.
The announcement was made last night during the Disney Horizon panel, which itself was also live-streamed within The game itself, whose latest live event pack has player avatars happily performing on a grid in a faux stage lobby – the first phase of Disney’s next gaming steps is very much a way to continue its myriad crossovers . fort night. Disney’s Josh D’Amaro enlists Disney Animation’s Jennifer Lee, Pixar’s Pete Docter, Lucasfilm’s Dave Ferro Dave Filoni and Marvel’s Kevin Feige are unveiling a slew of new skin packs for the game launching the rest of the year.
This fall, skins based on Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone The Incredibles The movie, as well as three of Disney’s villains – Maleficent, Captain Hook and Cruella de Vil – will all be in the game, but next week we’ll be introducing three new characters Star Wars items inspired by The MandalorianSeason 3: Skins for Moff Gideon and IG-12, and Grogu’s animated backpack in his satchel.
However, Marvel got arguably the biggest announcement yet: fort nightThe next season is entirely Marvel-themed. Titled Absolute Doom, the game will launch on August 16 and the story revolves around Doctor Doom coming to the game island and using the power of Pandora’s Box to wreak havoc, leading to a group of Marvel friends and foes – including black pantherof Shuri, Cyclops, Colossus, Jubilee, Gwenpool, Emma Frost, Mysterio and more, plus Marvel mashups if characters, team up to stop him.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Disney’s $1.5 billion effort to take a stake in Epic is only tentative. After all, the deal announced in February did mention a “whole new gaming universe” that could exist in fort night Similar to the game’s recently added Lego and Rocket Racing modes, this took time to develop. Docter, Filoni and Lee all speak of transcendence fort night Skins are in progress (including new The Mandalorian– Galaxy’s Edge themed ride variations smuggler’s run Ride, built using Epic’s Unreal Engine). So, for now, expect more crossovers like this to happen until we really start to see the power of a fully armed and operational Disney/Epic collaboration.
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