One juicy gaming rumor that continues to swirl is that The Walt Disney Company could buy Epic Games and Fortnite. It remains to be seen if such a deal may materialize, and now a top boss at the House of Mouse has directly responded.<\/p>\n
Speaking at Bloomberg’s Screentime event<\/a> this week, Disney executive Dana Walden reminded everyone that Disney already invested more than $1.5 billion into Epic for an equity stake<\/a>. But could talks progress to a full acquisition?<\/p>\n “Those are not the conversations we’re having right now,” Walden said. “But we have a great partnership.”<\/p>\n Disney and Epic are working together to create \u201ctransformational\u201d new games<\/a>. So far, they have showed up in Fortnite in a variety of ways, including the recent integration of Fortnite at Disney’s real-world parks<\/a>.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yf2bRcSIUsE <\/p>\n Walden said people can look forward to even more to come in the next few years. “A number of launches coming up over the next two years … are going to demonstrate the value of this partnership,” she said.<\/p>\n Kevin Mayer\u2013a former Disney and TikTok executive who now runs Candle Media\u2013said Disney’s new CEO, Josh D\u2019Amaro, will need to take \u201cbold steps\u201d to help Disney make more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One juicy gaming rumor that continues to swirl is that The Walt Disney Company could buy Epic Games and Fortnite. It remains to be seen if such a deal may materialize, and now a top boss at the House of Mouse has directly responded. Speaking at Bloomberg’s Screentime event this week, Disney executive Dana Walden…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":90527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90528,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525\/revisions\/90528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}