Epic Games and Disney announced a $1.5 billion partnership in early 2024 — a Marvel-and-Star-Wars-themed shooter due in March 2027. That release now has no date at all.
The reason: a hard pivot to "AI first" development. Bloomberg obtained internal messages describing it without much poetry: "no more hand-written code," art assets "generated with full AI workflows." Models like Anthropic's
Claude do the coding and the visuals; human developers steer and review.CEO Tim Sweeney moved quickly to frame it as ambition, not cuts — the goal, he wrote, is to build more and better, not the same things with fewer people. Which is exactly what every announcement like this has said for the past three years.
The Disney shooter waits. Nobody knows for how long.
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