{"id":18837,"date":"2026-04-10T23:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/epic-is-reportedly-building-an-extraction-shooter-for-disney\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:56:16","slug":"epic-is-reportedly-building-an-extraction-shooter-for-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/epic-is-reportedly-building-an-extraction-shooter-for-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic is reportedly building an extraction shooter for Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Besides a wealth of <em>Fortnite <\/em>skins based on Disney IP, it hasn&rsquo;t really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could change this November, <em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports, when Epic releases a Disney-themed extraction shooter. The game is one of three Disney projects the publisher is currently working on, and is reportedly expected to be Epic&rsquo;s comeback after the company laid off 1,000 employees in March due to a &ldquo;downturn in <em>Fortnite<\/em> engagement.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The game is reportedly similar to <em>Arc Raiders<\/em>, a multiplayer shooter where players fight for resources before escaping through an extraction point, but with Disney characters fighting enemies instead of post-apocalyptic survivors. <em>Bloomberg<\/em> writes that internal reviewers have worried that the game&rsquo;s mechanics are &ldquo;not very original,&rdquo; but the project is the most promising of the three Epic is developing. The second title received middling internal reviews, according to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>, and Epic moved resources off the third project &ldquo;after reports that Disney was disappointed by Epic&rsquo;s release timeline.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&ldquo;This is not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration,&rdquo; Liz Markman, Senior Director of Communications at Epic Games, said in a statement. &ldquo;We are building a new games and entertainment universe of Disney experiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_cd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_kd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">While details of Epic&rsquo;s work for Disney are coming into focus, it&rsquo;s still unclear whether this new extraction shooter will be a standalone game or incorporated as a mode in <em>Fortnite<\/em>. In its efforts to sell the title as a &ldquo;multiverse&rdquo; and a competitor to Roblox, Epic has introduced multiple games inside <em>Fortnite<\/em> over the last few years with distinct mechanics. The developer announced that it would shut down three of those titles &mdash; <em>Rocket Racing<\/em>, <em>Ballistic<\/em> and <em>Fortnite Festival Battle Stage<\/em> &mdash; as part of its recent round of layoffs. According to current and former Epic employees <em>Bloomberg<\/em> spoke to, several affected employees were also working on these unannounced Disney games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">When it invested in Epic in 2024, Disney wanted to build an entertainment universe, where players could &ldquo;play, watch, shop and engage with content, characters and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar, and more.&rdquo; Epic&rsquo;s current plans sound less all-encompassing than that, but if they manage to increase engagement with <em>Fortnite<\/em> and Disney&rsquo;s brand, that might not matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, April 10, 7:29PM ET:<\/strong> Added a statement from Epic Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Epic is reportedly building an extraction shooter for Disney<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides a wealth of Fortnite skins based on Disney IP, it hasn&rsquo;t really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could change this November, Bloomberg reports, when Epic releases a Disney-themed extraction shooter. The game is one of three Disney projects the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/epic-is-reportedly-building-an-extraction-shooter-for-disney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Epic is reportedly building an extraction shooter for Disney&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}