Epic Game Boss Tim Sweeney Explodes the 'BS' Report, Impressing Fortnite's Mysterious Disney Mode has been hampered by slow decision making
Blog Andrew Joseph 05 Aug , 2025 0
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney denied the claims published in Wall Street’s working relationship with Disney within the company.
yesterday, WSJ The report provides new details about Fortnite's mysterious upcoming Disney mode, which was developed after the latter Invest in Epic Games for $1.5 billion. The report said the product was not released until the “earliest fall 2026”, with some epic executives complaining that “the slow pace of Disney’s decision-making requires many different departments.”
It is precisely this statement that Sweeney has now refuted postal On social media, the suggestion is called “BS”.
“The anonymous offer is BS,” Sweeney wrote. “Disneys, like Darth Vader, work together with epic very well, about 10 times the average speed of media companies dealing in this business. We even provided a statement to the authors of this article, but they chose not to print it.”
Epic Games' Big Disney collaboration was announced in February 2024, although details about it remain largely unpackaged. The original concept artwork of the project has a virtual Disneyland-style environment, centered around Disney's main brand. However, it remains to be seen what players will do in it.
The WSJ report noted that the project was supervised internally by Disney's parks and resort director Josh D'Amaro, who visited Sweeney and spent a lot of time hiking with the CEO. The alleged focus on the project is an element created by its fans, raising questions about who might have a dance that takes advantage of Disney characters.
Epic Games and Disney have worked in-depth with Marvel and Star Wars themed seasons in recent years, and now there are countless characters as Fortnite Skins, including one Pixar movies, even Disney classic animationsalso.
These companies recently used Fortnite for Testing AI-powered Darth Vaderwho can use generative speech to chat with players. After the launch, the concept needed an urgent fix, as fans quickly got Darth Vader to say something he shouldn't have done, although more than 10 million players ended up talking to Sith Lord.
This week, Fortnite moved to next season, which will see its main island of Royals be infested by mutated bugs, with other characters from Halo bringing help. Meanwhile, in the game's OG mode, the action enters Season 5 of Fortnite, which should see the look of Cube's Kevin – though Epic Games is doing interesting things with this rerun storylineso maybe not.
Tom Phillips is the news editor for IGN. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on the Blues @tomphillipseg.bsky.social