Disney Wants To Buy Fortnite & Epic Games?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.31.26

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2:04Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Tuesday, March 31st, 2026. I'm your host, Blessing Addy Oye Jr. Joining me is the tastemaker, Roger McCorney.

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2:55Tim Gettys:Yeah, that was when he screamed out to people off set with that incredible audio. Remember that? Oh, I remember that audio. That was awesome. It's that and the Mel Gibson audio. Was it also when we were talking about all the racist tirades? No, he wasn't racist. The Christian Bale one. Was the Mel Gibson one racist? That was the Mel Gibson one. Yes. The Mel Gibson one, yes. It was racist. David Hasselhoff was racist too, right? Did he do one of them? Yeah, he was eating a cheeseburger, right? And Mike, let me know. He was seeing a cheeseburger. Damn, he was my hero from the Spongebob movie. Yeah, that was the movie.

3:27Tim Gettys:Yeah, see, he could have reinvented his career just off that because we had a whole generation of people who was like, I don't know who the hell David Hasselhoff is. I don't know who the fuck this guy is. I was like 10 years old being like, yo, I'll watch Baywatch. He saved Spongebob right there. That was incredible. He didn't follow, he followed up on that way too late because I don't feel like I saw him again until the recent Spongebob game that came out Wait, what? He's in the SpongeBob game? Yeah, he's in the recent SpongeBob game. That's pretty sick. Like every once in a while, like a collectible.

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6:31starting with our number one disney may be interested in acquiring epic games at some point it has been claimed this is from chris scolian at video games chronicle disney may be considering an attempt to acquire epic games in the future with senior executives reportedly divided on whether to pursue it according to a veteran tech reporter disney and epic have a long-standing working relationship the latter has contributed unreal engine technology to various disney theme park rides and star wars movies for example while fortnight has played home to numerous Disney season collaborations and live events, including Marvel and Star Wars themed ones.

7:08Back in February 2024, the Walt Disney Company also announced that it was making a$1.5 billion investment to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, which would include the creation of a new persistent, quote, games and entertainment universe connected to Fortnite. This could one day extend to acquiring Epic outright, according to a tech journalist and former Verge deputy editor alex heath who recently appeared on podcast the town with matt baloney to discuss matt beloney baloney is a different thing uh to discuss a number of do you listen to the podcast yeah okay i was like how do you know that uh to discuss a number of tech topics including the current state of epic games which reported last week that it was laying off more than a thousand employees after beloney said he had heard rumors that disney wanted to buy epic games at some point Heath stated that he knew of some senior members at Disney who are considering such a move.

8:01Quote, I know for a fact there are senior executives in Disney who want them to buy Epic and are just waiting for that moment, Heath said. And then there's others who think it's a bad idea, end quote. Bellany also claimed that new Disney CEO, Josh Damaro, who took over from Bob Iger earlier this month, wasn't keen on Disney's$1 billion deal with Sora Company OpenAI, which fell through last week. but, quote, was 500 % behind this Epic Games relationship that Disney has where they are developing an open world experience with Fortnite, end quote. Heath stated then that were Epic Games to ever be open to being acquired, Disney would be the most natural home for it for a lot of reasons.

8:45For the park integration, can you imagine a Fortnite park to all the open world, you know, integrating Disney IP into it, which they've already announced, and also Disney's gaming platform? and I can see that, end quote. Quote, at the same time, he added, you have to understand Epic is a founder-controlled company, so Tim Sweeney, the founder, has full voting stock control and can make unilateral decisions, and it's really up to him, end quote. Elsewhere in the discussion, Heath explained that while Epic recently reported a downturn in Fortnite engagement, it's still one of the most popular forms of entertainment for young people today, which makes it an attractive prospect for Disney.

9:21Heath also pointed out that outside of games, acquiring epic would also mean acquiring unreal engine which is increasingly being used for film and tv production including on shows such as the mandalorian mando do you can you believe that yesterday me andy greg and nick and tim went to the movie theater to watch the mario movie and there was a poster there for the mandalorian and grogu yes a movie that's coming out a movie that's really coming out that's a real movie that's a real movie that's a real movie that's

9:54Tim Gettys:I'm like, this is the one that's going to show me this is a real movie. And it never does. Watch it. I'm like, there's no way. That's crazy. It's a real movie that's coming. It's the first Star Wars movie in years. We're back. Mandalorian. It's an episode of a television show. What? Did you ever finish Mandalorian? I skipped around season three and I watched maybe like half of the last episode. I couldn't believe where we ended up. I could not believe where the awful show was ended up. Remember when they went their separate ways and then in Book of Boba Fett, they came back. See, that's where I stopped.

10:26I could not believe I didn't make it to Book of Boba Fett. And then remember Jack Black and what's her face? You're not telling me Jack Black is in Star Wars. Yeah, Jack and Lizzo. Yeah, and Lizzo were in an episode. No. It really just turned into like silly adventure of the week type of show and it was just like what are we doing?

10:42Tim Gettys:Can I spoil something for season three? No, no. It's been years, Roger. I can't. No, we should talk about this new story because I got a lot to say but also I want to spoil everything about this. Before we get there, right? I don't want to disrespect Lizzo. Shout out Lizzo. But also, Bill Burr was in Mandalorian. Oh, fuck, I forgot about that. That was good. That was good. That was good stuff. Shout out Bill Burr. He's very good in that. Roger, where do you want to start with this? With spoiling of season three? No, we're not spoiling. Oh, okay. A lot of things to talk about. It's actually funny.

11:11Tim Gettys:I listen to the town kind of religiously every episode. I stopped listening to this episode because it was just so much. Because the whole episode was about the breakup with OpenAI and Disney. and i was just like man i can't hear about ai ever again like i like i ended the episode like halfway through with them talking about this stuff and then of course this news happens right as i stop listening to it uh a lot of ways that i can go about this i mean and i'm a little bit skeptical of this not because i don't trust the reporter it's just more of like how many we haven't really seen many big companies like leak what they're going to acquire like like this is such a big purchase that like usually you don't hear about this until it happens right so it's like it kind of gives me a little bit of pause they're like oh we're talking about it it's like are some people talking about it is this actually going to happen like this is a big company right there's a lot of senior level executives here I feel like a few conversations of hey we're putting a bunch of money into Fortnite what if we purchased them like I think that's the level of conversation they're having I don't know if they're actually like hey we're fucking we're trying to make this happen yeah and also part of me is like the time to buy Fortnite would have been like five years ago like you know what i mean like we're at this point now it's like do you want to buy fortnite right now like also what is this thing that you're putting a bunch of money into like this brand new mode this brand new you know game within a fortnite like i think you have to wait until that comes out and to be like okay this is a massive success then we go in right i don't think you you do that beforehand i i disagree in the sense that i think we're closer to this happening now more so than we were two weeks ago i think seeing because of all the layoffs because all the place where fortnight's been right like i don't i think it would have been harder to acquire fortnight at the peak right when it's rising when it's killing it when it's doing all these things i think right now as disney right there is a there's a value there that doesn't just lie in the fortnight world experience the espn island that we keep talking about i keep talking about these i keep talking about yes you'll never forget about the i can go there to steven a smith and fortnight for let me tell you something oh no um but i think that's only one facet of it and i think that's a small facet of it i think it where the value lies is in the totality of what you get with unreal with fortnight with everything that's epic as disney right there's a lot there as far as unreal engine sure and yeah you're using that for your movies yeah you're using that for your theme parks yeah there's i think being able to own that and be able to operate that in-house there's something there i think when you're talking about disney which is a company that is so aimed at families and kids and you know being able to kind of be at the forefront of we got the ip that kids care about right fortnight is an ip that kids care about a lot and i think beyond just the integration of our of already existing disney ip there i think there's something as far as bringing fortnight into other parts of disney right like the article they like slightly mentioned the idea of yeah what if you could do a fortnight theme park well yeah it's funny yeah because bringing in fortnight into actual disneyland or disney world would make a lot of sense especially when josh tomorrow who is now heading up disney or about to i forget where he is in the pipeline by bikers leaving leaving uh after the second time of him leaving uh but josh tomorrow was the head of parks and also video game division right so he understands video games he understands these experiences and he's very much coming from that perspective like hey i need to figure out a way to grow the theme parks i need to figure out how to grow these experiences because when you think about disney right we think about it such a a huge huge corporation it is it's making a lot of money but when you look at the stock market it is kind of just stayed the same for the last 10 years right it hasn't really grown as a company a lot of its biggest ip are the same ip that were big 10, 15, 20 years ago, right?

15:03Tim Gettys:Like they haven't really been able to, even like a big thing like Moana, right? Like they create Moana and then we're doing a remake of Moana again, right? Like they aren't able to create these new massive, massive hits to push forward. So yeah, I do think that Josh is looking forward to the future of what Fortnite can bring to the company. And I think you are right. Like I didn't think about it until just now of like, yeah, a Fortnite theme park is pretty sick. Like that makes a lot of sense to have that synergy there. and also talking about bringing in the unreal side of it all right like i as we're talking about this i was like oh yeah they own ilm which is one of the biggest you know vfx houses in the world like being able to take their proprietary stuff mix it with unreal like that is a match made in heaven right there it makes a lot of sense i just again a little bit of pause of like this is if this was actually happening like now like if they're actually like hey we're putting on the money we're figuring out a ways to make this happen i don't think this would have leaked in this way i do think that they would have been like everyone shut the fuck up like we're actually going to put a bid in we're going to make this happen yeah and that's where i come around to where you're talking about right where i don't we don't know how serious these conversations are right like i don't i'm with you that i don't think this is they're going to acquire epic tomorrow but i fully believe in like there's conversations happening behind closed doors from high level executives that are like hey let's let's think about this like let's think about this in like a serious matter because this is an option that's on the table for us that could if you're lining up potential acquisitions for disney which i'm sure disney's always looking at what that board looks like i think epic is very high up on that board that makes a lot of sense to me i i again am i'm so fascinating fascinated by what this massive video game within fortnite is like they are putting so much money behind it of course this wasn't i mean i guess josh was the head of it because he was the head of games uh at that moment so this was maybe one of his babies but i think that like that just cannot be hey it's just for it's just fortnight it's a fortnight world and you're just hanging out with Mickey Mouse.

16:54Tim Gettys:Like, it needs to be something special. I, see, I'm... It needs to have Disney magic that isn't just... But it's not going to have that, though. It won't be. And this is me being a hater. I'm not a hater, because I like Fortnite. I like playing Fortnite fine. I think when they try to do things, they can be very hit or miss. You look at the last week of the things that they shut down, right? Like, but one of the successes they were able to find was Lego Fortnite, and that was a collaboration, and that was them putting in the work and trying to do something bigger, right? How much of a hit is that actually, though?

17:21Tim Gettys:You look at those numbers. What are the numbers? I mean, every time I look at those numbers, they pale in comparison to everything else. Of course. Yeah. You know, it's battle rails, the biggest thing in the fucking world. Right. So you can't really compare it. But still, those numbers aren't as high as you would expect them to be. Right. We're talking about tens of thousands. And that's my thing is I don't expect a Disney, the Disney experience to be anything beyond that. I think it's going to be. In fact. If we're being real about it. Right. Like. Do you want to hang out on ESPN Island? I say it as a joke, but do you?

17:48I think I need more than just the interactive theme park of Disney within a video game. I don't want that. You know what I mean? I think that's neat for a day. I think Fortnite has a lot of throw shit out a wall and see what sticks type of modes where it's like, okay, this is cool for a day. We played Fortnite Ballistic. That was cool for a day. But you need something that's stickier. And I don't think visiting these islands or like hanging out with Mickey Mouse is you need it to be a video game.

18:15Tim Gettys:And the issue is here, I think, I don't know, maybe I'm going to be wrong in this assumption, but if we're looking at the way that Fortnite has tried so many things, thrown things at the wall, and they just keep on failing, they're trying to be Roblox. You look at Roblox, you see what that platform looks like. You are able to make a small game that is sticky that gets literally 100 ,000 players in a day. Like crazy numbers. Insane numbers. And also, these companies are able, like Spongebob. Spongebob has a game that I believe had like 40 ,000 players last time I checked. like insane numbers that are happening just because the ip right hell's kitchen game had like 20 000 players at one time right that is where you want to be for hey disney has a new game okay now it's on roblox and now it's the biggest thing in the world like that is where kids are and they can click on things oh i know that thing i'm gonna play it i don't think people are trained and it clearly shows because they're closing down these games when they go on fortnight i'm gonna try other things as much as roblox right and i but i think that's what they want right i know i think that's what also shutting down a bunch of games doesn't like invoke confidence of like hey i'm gonna know these things yeah but that's the thing is they keep they keep chasing it i don't it's it's not sticking as much as it sticks with a roblox but i think if you're fortnite and you're trying to ascend to the next level which we talk about this all the time you're the biggest thing in the world you need more money do you need no but they're gonna chase it because that's capitalism if they're looking at the next level to ascend to it is roblox yeah it is how do we make this a marketplace of games and experiences that are going to you look you log into fortnite and the mickey mouse game that was released has hundreds of thousands of concurrence and like you and i would never realize it because we don't do that in fortnite right like yeah we're busy playing screamer and pokemon right but like nerd i'm not playing any of that you're playing pokemon pocopia i'm playing really cool games like slay the spire 2 everybody um but you know like the kids are playing those things right like there are communities of people that are flocking to those games because we see that in roblox and i think that's what disney would look at epic and go all right this is what we want if we acquire epic we want to go all the way and make fortnight like roblox in terms of integrating these disney ips into games in this thing and hopefully being able to blow up and have hundreds of thousands of concurrence for each of these titles yeah i i just i don't know what disney can bring to the table that changes that narrative right like what is making a moana game within fortnight like is that going to be the thing are they going to just make a bunch of these are they going to flood the market with it all like what does disney bring to this other than disney acquiring what fortnight's already doing and then just having more brand synergy like i i just because like i look at the numbers of people i i get it i understand what y 'all are saying but like uh for context corey cunney says in the chat uh right now uh Battle Royale has 350K.

21:01Tim Gettys:Reload has 150K. OG has 46K. And Lego has 17K, right? And then if you go to fucking Roblox right now, of course, different beasts, but also this is what they're going for, right? So let's compare apples to oranges. Fucking the top trending game on Roblox right now is Sailor Peace. That has 481 ,000 players right now. And that is one of the many video games that are going on there. 127K, 115K. like roblox is the platform that you go to to play different video games like that is trained within the audience there i don't think fortnite internally is as successful at doing that and i don't know how disney buying it is going to change that again like unless they have this incredible idea and i agree with you i don't think that stops disney from no i'm not saying it's not yeah i'm just saying like if we're talking about if the idea here is that fortnite in the last five years has been trying to change their business model to being more creator focused and building these islands and making things that are different that people go to and say, hey, I want to play different games that are not Battle Royale.

22:04Tim Gettys:I don't think that they're doing as successful of the job as they internally want to. And I just don't know how Disney coming into that then changes that narrative, unless the Disney Island is something that I'm not, I could not even fathom right now. And this is where we come around to acquisition conversations, right? We've seen big acquisitions happen over and over in this industry. and I think we don't talk about them as like oh hell yeah an acquisition is happening but I think people take it like that so I want to make it very clear right hey this is bad and this is to your point that you're making that like if this happens I think they're going to have those expectations they're going to try it and I think they're going to fail and I think we're going to have a lot of layoffs I think the developers that use Unreal Engine are going to suffer I think the people the developers that have their games on Epic Game Store a very generous service when you're talking about the splits and all that stuff they're going to suffer those splits aren't going to exist anymore like this is going to ruin a lot of things yep i'm sure some things are going to work as far as what they're looking what they're looking for but things are more beneficial probably disney corporate specifically when you're talking about unreal engine and incorporating that in more things and like being able to have better synergy between what they do at ilm and unreal engine and have less friction and not have to pay the splits and do all that stuff right yep that's going to benefit disney corporate yep what's going to benefit the audience off of this i couldn't tell you yeah and And also you get into the game developer side of it, right?

23:23Tim Gettys:Like what is a Disney owned video game? You know, I guess essentially free to use platform like Unreal. What does that look like in the next five years after a purchase from one of the biggest corporations in the world, right? Does that just price go up? Does it eventually get, you know, priced out in certain places? Does it become, you know, proprietary? I mean, I don't think they would ever do that because, you know, ILM works with different companies, yada, yada, yada. Like they have this, you know, hey, we build software, we build these companies, we can work with other things. but you know maybe becomes more niche and less you know player and gamer focused than uh it is right now where anyone could download i can download unreal right now and start working on it right i also and i don't think this would be the case i would worry a little bit about what this would do for marvel games and disney games as far as like what those look like it's because we're already in a weird place right now so yeah but we're still like i think they're still they still do a good job of being like hey you make guardians of the galaxy hey you make spider-man hey you make blade or whatever uh and we'll talk about cards later in the show about it yeah we'll talk about it but um and same with disney right like what was it disney dreamlight island disney no disney dreamlight valley nailed it mickey mickey and friends what's the mickey and friends 2d platformer oh fuck disney illusion illusion island something i think illusion island yeah but stuff like that i think is really really cool i joked about it in chat but toontown bring it back i mean toontown's already back i mean people can uh that's like a fan thing right yeah but i mean it's super popular people playing it cool big deal but do we see those happen less i don't think so because like i think the people who run that shit know understand the business better like i look at john drake and i'm like you understand you worked at playstation you've been around if you know what you're doing and the people that i know from marvel games and disney games i think they know what they're doing enough to where i don't worry as much but i do worry a little bit yeah because especially if you put you know i don't know how much uh epic games is going to be worth right but this is not a cheap company no right especially if it's privately run and you know tim sweeney's the person that has to you know press uh you know press x to accept right like this is going to be a very very expensive purchase so if that money gets taken out of the disney budget of course the disney budget is a lot of money uh but you know they're gonna have to look at the shareholders and be like hey we just spent you know 75 billion dollars on fucking epic games okay well maybe we can't make you know uh galactic racers too right like maybe we can't look at this other these other games that we want to spend you know maybe we made galactic racer 2 and fortnite yeah exactly no truly yeah maybe we can't do blade 2 but maybe we can do something like it where you know blade hangs out with the you know fucking ghost rider in in this island that area sucks but i mean that's that is the if this is actually happens i could i could totally see that way of like hey we already spent a lot of money here we got to focus on this thing we got to focus on you know bolstering epic games and what they're doing specifically or maybe they they build up epic games and epic games becomes like an internal like video game developer for them on top of fortnite right like maybe we We go back to Fortnite, and then also we build out some studios to make AA, AAA video games for them.

26:15Tim Gettys:But I doubt that would ever happen. That scares me, honestly. I know, I know. Because then they would put out a game and then get shut down right after. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I want to bring in a few more Super Chats. Falcon4196 writes in and says, An important thing to remember about when talking about Roblox is that it has never been profitable. They had a$300 million loss last quarter. Ain't that just business, though? Yeah, exactly. Infinite growth. I drove past the Roblox headquarters on accident. They sure look profitable. I'm like, damn, man, this place looks profitable. Damn, I didn't realize that Roblox was here.

26:48Tim Gettys:It loses a ton of money, but it makes a lot of people some money. So, yeah, but also, like, same thing with Netflix, right? Netflix was not profitable for years and years and years. I mean, these are how these tech companies work. So I wouldn't necessarily worry about that too much, but, yeah. Yeah. Blessed with a curse, 59, writes in and says, We can't shout out Bill Burr. He sold his soul to Saudi Arabia after hating on billionaires for so long. I also saw people in chat calling me out about the Lizzo thing. Listen, I forgot Lizzo did that shit. If I'm being real. There's a lot of people out there that you just forget are problematic.

27:23Here's the thing, right? This is me being frank. I am not in every single celebrity's business like that. And so give me some grace. Sure, give me the context or whatever. and I'll do my own research afterwards and determine how I feel about it. But man, yeah, Chad, I don't know, man. There's a lot of people, like I said, bust out the list, give me a dart, I'll throw that dart, and more than likely, somebody did some shit.

27:46Tim Gettys:Also, we're talking about Bill Burr in his acting role in The Mandalorian, right? We were a little bit far removed, but I understand the point. No, I did say that Bill Burr was an upstanding individual. You looked directly to the camera and said he has not done anything ever wrong. Yeah, I looked at the camera and said he's perfect. JBC writes in and says, kiss those fortnight collabs goodbye disney buy yes that's a great point that i meant to get to is like does are we is it are we they actually looking at this as a third-party platform we're going to keep it going or hey james gunn wants to put batman in the dcu batman in fortnight we're not going to let him do that it's only going to be marvel only be disney forever now if they buy this yeah yeah i don't know i i yeah it's a weird one i can see it 50 50 yeah i would almost like this probably this isn't gonna be how it'd work but i i almost wanted to be more like playstation with bungie even though that didn't go well for them but where it's like hey we own you but also like keep doing your thing because we want like like ilm right i mean it's a different scale of things but like they worked on sinners you know they worked on things that are not you know disney owned right so i could see that um only special features writes in and says happy birthday to kfbf aria o 'neill uh show them love shout out ari the homie hell yeah well they both works wow just for ari uh it's a christmas miracle uh it's a trans visibility day miracle uh destiny destiny dgg clips writes in and says is this the beginning of the end for fortnite i mean if epic is literally raking in billions of dollars every year and it's still not enough for them to pay the bills uh then how can they keep going i wouldn't say beginning of the end maybe a beginning of a downturn right and i know we've already been in the downturn in terms of numbers according to epic during the layoffs but the store is going to get more expensive skins are going to get more expensive the battle pass is going to get more expensive like i truly believe that like a lot of this hinges on the disney situation whatever not them buying it but the disney island that they're working on are clearly putting a lot of money and time into of like if that comes out and that's a flop oof we're in big trouble we've we fucked up here so yeah i would i would i would wait and see for that and then i'll do one more from bg25800 resident says is anyone playing life is strange reunion at kf uh lians is playing it in the background while i play slay the spider 2 so i'm hearing some of it she's enjoying it enough i'm i'm ignoring it it's on it's on my home screen i've not booted it up yet well here because i'm not sure if we said it on this show right but like they we didn't get codes for it and so when we don't get codes the scheduling around reviews gets tougher because the fact of the matter is that the longer a game has been actually out the less likely that y 'all are gonna show up for a review like we get less view it's like diminishing returns when it comes to comes to views and so like if we beat this game by next week we're gonna put out a video and nobody's gonna watch it um i'm not gonna say nobody but like not enough people are gonna watch it is what i'll say that said i've been seeing some reviews trickle out that had me interested you know i love life is strange yep and i want to finish the story like Cody Rhodes.

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