Disney is investing $1.5 billion in Epic Games.
Disney is investing $1.5 billion in Epic Games.
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All the things Disney’s Bob Iger said about the $1.5B investment in Epic and the new Disney universe

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Disney CEO Bob Iger gave air time in today’s earnings call to the partnership where Disney will invest $1.5 billion in Epic Games to build a new Disney universe that resembles a metaverse.

The deal is a huge one that could boost the fortunes of Epic Games’ vision to build an open and connected metaverse — something Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has been talking about for nearly a decade.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.