Insider scoop: Disney shooter

Epic Games is reportedly building a Disney-branded extraction shooter for November 2026, the clearest sign yet of what Disney’s $1.5 billion bet on Epic may actually produce. (ign.com) Bloomberg, cited by IGN and other outlets on April 10, said the unannounced game is part of the Disney-Epic slate and compared it to ARC Raiders, a multiplayer format where players enter a map, collect loot, and try to escape alive. (ign.com) Disney and Epic announced their partnership in February 2024, when Disney said it would invest $1.5 billion for an equity stake and help build an “open” and “persistent” entertainment universe connected to Fortnite. (thewaltdisneycompany.com) That 2024 announcement named Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Avatar as part of the plan, but it did not say what the first standalone game would be. The reported shooter would be the first concrete product window attached to the deal. (epicgames.com) The report lands as Epic is still leaning on Fortnite as both a game and a platform for outside brands, from music events to Lego and Disney tie-ins. A Disney extraction shooter would push that strategy beyond in-game cosmetics into a full release built around Disney-owned characters. (epicgames.com) Extraction shooters are built around high-risk runs: players bring gear into a match, fight human or computer-controlled enemies, and lose what they carried if they fail to get out. Bloomberg’s reported ARC Raiders comparison points to a live-service game with repeatable matches rather than a single-player Disney action game. (ign.com) The same round of reports also pointed to two other industry shifts. Amazon told Luna users that, starting April 10, 2026, the service would stop offering individual game purchases and third-party subscriptions, with access to purchased games on Luna ending June 10, 2026. (pcmag.com) Amazon’s notice also said Luna would stop supporting third-party game stores from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and GOG, and users would need to play eligible purchases through those companies’ own apps after the cutoff. (theverge.com) Valve, meanwhile, has not announced any public “SteamGPT” product, but recent reports said code watchers found references to an internal tool with that name in updated Steam files. Valve has not publicly explained what the tool does or whether it will ship. (pcworld.com) One More Level’s Valor Mortis is much less murky. The Ghostrunner studio and publisher Lyrical Games formally showed the first-person soulslike at the Triple-i Initiative showcase on April 9 and set a Fall 2026 release window for Xbox, PlayStation, and personal computer. (pressreleases.triplepointpr.com) For now, the Disney game remains a report, not an announcement. The next test is whether Epic or Disney turns two years of broad promises into a named game, a trailer, and a release date that sticks. (ign.com)