During this year's D23 event at the Anaheim Convention Center and Honda Center in Anaheim, California, Square Enix presented a new Kingdom Hearts IV trailer and revealed its release window of late 2027. The timing is perfect, as the franchise will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year. The new trailer shows that the world of Coco, 2017's Pixar movie themed around the Mexican Day of the Dead tradition, is featured in Kingdom Hearts IV. The Japanese publisher also shared the following overview of the game: As the Kingdom Hearts series nears its 25th anniversary, a fresh adventure unfolds. Sora awakens […]

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The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took over for Bob Iger earlier this year, has emphasized his intent to streamline the Disney experience.

The former Disney CEO hold a stake in Thrive and has previously held the role of the venture partner at the firm.

You might recall that just two short years ago in February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Fortnite maker Epic Games, with grand plans to create a persistent Disney universe within Fortnite based on Disney franchises. We've already seen part of this deal bear fruit with the introduction of Disnyeland in Fortnite, and according to a new report from Bloomberg, we're due to get the next fruit in November 2026. And according to the report, it's an incredibly significant release for Epic, because it is meant to mark the beginning of its comeback tour. Epic Games recently laid of 1,000 […]

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Nearly three years after rumours circled that Disney was looking to establish itself as one of the biggest publishers in the video game industry by acquiring a major publisher, those rumours now circle around Disney and another publisher. Instead of EA in the mouse's acquisition crosshairs, The Verge editor Alex Heath claims that Disney is looking to acquire Fortnite maker Epic Games. Spotted by VGC, while speaking on The Town with Matt Belloni podcast, while discussing Epic's recent mass layoff of over 1,000 Epic Games employees, Belloni shared that they had heard whispers of Disney looking to purchase Epic Games. […]

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On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.