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Joe Foley

THE TRUTH ABOUT: What will it mean if disney buys unreal engine - Caught on Camera

Disney logo and Epic Games logo on an image of a Disneyland-like world created in Unreal Engine.

It's no secret that Disney's keen on entering new forms of entertainment. Its plan to allow user-prompted AI-generated video on Disney+ has been set back by OpenAI abruptly pulling the plug on Sora. In the meantime, the other area it's been eyeing is gaming.

Back in 2024, Disney made a $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games, developer of the third-person shooter Fortnite and the hugely popular game development software Unreal Engine. There's increasing speculation that Disney might buy Epic Games, and some developers are getting worried. What would a Disney-owned Unreal Engine 5 look like?

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