The Disneyfication of Fortnite

I've fallen out with Fortnite over the last couple of months. I think the last season I touched was the South Park one. It felt same-y, commercial, and it was harder and harder to get the boys together for a night. I still see the updates though and I remarked to my pals that it feels more and more like a Disney marketing machine. Seems my feelings were spot on. Cecilia D'Anastasio at Bloomberg reported on Epic banking on all this Disney IP and money to help Fortnite make a comeback. "The company is pinning a resurgence on games it’s been developing with Walt Disney Co., which agreed to invest $1.5 billion in Epic two years ago. Epic is on track to launch the first game in its new Disney partnership in November, according to four current and former employees. It will be a shooting game along the lines of Embark Studios’ hit Arc Raiders, but with Disney characters battling enemies until they can reach an extraction point, according to the people. So far, internal reviewers have…