Disney executives are reportedly encouraging CEO Bob Iger to contemplate increasing Disney from a “gaming license” to a “gaming big”.
In a report revealed by Bloomberg (by way of VGC), evidently all just isn’t pleased on the Home of Mouse, with stories of discontent following feedback made earlier than the SAG-Aftra strike and a handful of flops on the field workplace. And a method that executives have urged that Disney can get again on even footing is by taking a look at video video games.
Apparently, publishers Digital Arts and Ubisoft have been talked about, and each have a really latest historical past of dealing with plenty of Disney IPs. However Iger — who’s presently in his second time period as CEO after returning to the place in November 2022 — has reportedly been “noncommittal”.
There are many video video games on the market that use the Disney license — Disney Phantasm Island, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Disney Speedstorm, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor are all latest examples — however we have got upcoming titles like Iron Man, Black Panther, and Star Wars Outlaws (none of that are coming to Change). Whereas Jedi: Survivor, Iron Man, and Black Panther are being dealt with by EA, Outlaws is with Ubisoft.
In fact, these are all simply stories for now, with nothing confirmed from Disney itself. We’ll have to attend and see what occurs over the course of the subsequent few months for the Home of Mouse.
Iger’s first stint as head of the leisure firm ran from 2005 to 2020, which noticed the corporate purchase a large variety of studios akin to Pixar, Marvel Leisure, Lucasfilm, and twenty first Century Fox. On his return to the place in 2022 following a shaky tenure underneath former head of parks Bob Chapek.
The following licensed Disney sport to be hitting cabinets is a remaster of the Sega Genesis platformer Gargoyles, which launches on nineteenth October 2023.
