While Epic Games is technically an independent studio, it does have several huge investors. Disney is perhaps the biggest amongst them. After investing $1.5 billon in the company last year, Disney and Epic Games began work on a new collaborative project. Now, it seems that project might be closer to a full reveal than expected. 

Last year, Disney acquired a minority stake in Epic Games for $1.5 billion. As you might expect, Disney is looking to leverage its new partnership with Epic to further advertise its own IP, including properties like Star Wars and Marvel, to more traditional Disney and Pixar IP. This won't just be a string of limited-time Fortnite events though, instead, Disney and Epic are building a new “persistent universe”.

We still know very little about this new game, but recently, the project reportedly moved into ‘Stable' status, meaning there is a stable, running build of the game behind the scenes and the developers have likely reached several key milestones for the project already. This news came exactly one year after Disney and Epic Games announced their new partnership.

Disney and Epic Games already have a good relationship, with many Disney IP appearing in Epic's flagship game, Fortnite, for limited periods of time. This new ‘persistent universe' will be separate from Fortnite and those limited-time events, although Disney's metaverse will likely have some limited time events all of its own, designed to draw players in regularly throughout the year.

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KitGuru Says: Perhaps we'll be getting more official news on this later in the year. So far, it seems that Epic Games is making good progress. 

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