EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Shuts Down Cliffhanger Games
In classic EA fashion, the publisher has cancelled the Black Panther game in production at Cliffhanger Games and lays off the development team.
It seems we will never get a consistent Marvel Gaming Universe
After the overall financial success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it feels strange that Disney hasn’t really been pushing hard with the expansion of the Marvel IP to other mediums. While the comics continue to be consistent, there hasn’t been as much headway made with video games. And what we have had has been maddeningly inconsistent. In fact, you can rely on how consistently inconsistent the Marvel video games are.
When Insomniac’s Spider-Man launched in 2018 to critical and commercial success, gamers assumed it was only a matter of time before we got a Marvel Gaming Universe. And while we did get multiple other titles featuring some of Marvel’s massive roster of heroes, for every fun and interesting game like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, we would get a rather lackluster release like Marvel’s Avengers. As much as I personally loved Spider-Man, I didn’t end up enjoying Spider-Man 2 as much. I haven’t even finished it.
And then we have games, like Marvel’s Black Panther, that cancelled before release. Though we didn’t have a whole lot of information on the game, there was still potential. But EA must not have seen the potential as now the game is scrapped and the studio, Cliffhanger Games, shuttered. Cliffhanger join the evergrowing list of studio closures over the past few years.
Announced back in 2023, details on the game were actually pretty light, with this being the first real news we got about it. What little we did know about Marvel’s Black Panther was that it was going to be an open-world game and the developers have since come out and said it was a “beautiful and stunning-looking game,” so it was at least far enough along to have excellent graphics, by the sound of things.
It’s not all doom and gloom for the devs, as some will be moved to other projects, but hopefully the remaining staff can find new jobs soon. There’s been no word on EA’s Iron Man game, so it might still be in the works. How do you feel about this news? Sound off in the comments!
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