Disney to make $1.5B investment in Epic Games, best known for Fortnite

CARY, North Carolina -- Disney CEO Bob Iger announced during the company's net telephone Wednesday that it would put $1.5 cardinal successful Epic Games.

Epic Games is the workplace down the fashionable online crippled Fortnite.

Disney has worked with Epic Games successful the past to incorporated playable characters into Fortnite.

Iger said Disney plans to enactment with Epic Games to make a caller virtual world beingness arsenic good arsenic caller games and amusement incorporating much characters and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and different institution properties.

This announcement comes connected the heels of Iger announcing that Disney had exceeded net expectations.

Disney's banal changeable up successful aftermarket trading.

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