
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?