Two months ago, Disney Games announced a massive $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games to support the creation of a persistent universe within Fortnite featuring the company's major intellectual properties. Yesterday, VentureBeat reported that Disney Games is hiring new industry executives to prepare for a new wave of investments. Bjorn Tornqvist has recently joined as the new vice president of games technology after a couple of decades at Ubisoft Massive (he was most recently the technical director for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora), while Ray Gresko, formerly chief development officer at Blizzard Entertainment, is joining the team as senior vice president […]
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