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According to multiple sources, Electronic Arts and Marvel have ended their partnership to develop and produce games based on Marvel characters and properties. The deal between the two companies had resulted in one game to date, 2004’s Marvel Nemesis: The Rise of the Imperfects which was heavily promoted by both companies (including a comic book tie-in featuring the game’s new characters), but only received lukewarm reviews by gamers.
According to GameTap, EA Chicago’s studio was developing another fighting game, but the studio was shut down last year, and the game’s producer, Kudo Tsunoda left the company recently, and is now at Microsoft’s Xbox division.
Justin Lambros, vice president of Marvel's Interactive division told Wired.com, “Electronic Arts and Marvel have jointly agreed to discontinue development of Marvel fighting games under the Electronic Arts brand. This was a business decision based on Electronic Arts portfolio strategy and will not affect Marvel's ongoing plans to release fighting games based on the Marvel properties in the future.”
Fans are already speculating, or hoping strongly, that Lambros’ comments may indicate Marvel re-teaming with Capcom. The two partnered in the ‘90s, resulting in many fan-favorite games including 1999’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes. The earlier Capcom/Marvel relationship was similar to the relationship that Marvel had with EA, that is, the fighting game featured Marvel characters interacting with characters owned by the videogame company.
In early December, Develop reported that Marvel was looking to perhaps revise its relationship with videogame developers, and perhaps, model its relationship with video game developers on its movie production, which would allow Marvel to take a greater role in the production of games based on its properties.
Marvel has videogame releases based on the upcoming Iron Man and Hulk films scheduled for this year (both through Sega), and currently has a relationship with Activision for Spider-Man videogames. Marvel’s Marvel Universe Online MMO, however, is reportedly in trouble as both Cryptic and Marvel have ben silent about the project of late. The game, which was a result of a partnering of Marvel and Cryptic Stuidios was announced in September of 2006.
According to GameTap, EA Chicago’s studio was developing another fighting game, but the studio was shut down last year, and the game’s producer, Kudo Tsunoda left the company recently, and is now at Microsoft’s Xbox division.
Justin Lambros, vice president of Marvel's Interactive division told Wired.com, “Electronic Arts and Marvel have jointly agreed to discontinue development of Marvel fighting games under the Electronic Arts brand. This was a business decision based on Electronic Arts portfolio strategy and will not affect Marvel's ongoing plans to release fighting games based on the Marvel properties in the future.”
Fans are already speculating, or hoping strongly, that Lambros’ comments may indicate Marvel re-teaming with Capcom. The two partnered in the ‘90s, resulting in many fan-favorite games including 1999’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes. The earlier Capcom/Marvel relationship was similar to the relationship that Marvel had with EA, that is, the fighting game featured Marvel characters interacting with characters owned by the videogame company.
In early December, Develop reported that Marvel was looking to perhaps revise its relationship with videogame developers, and perhaps, model its relationship with video game developers on its movie production, which would allow Marvel to take a greater role in the production of games based on its properties.
Marvel has videogame releases based on the upcoming Iron Man and Hulk films scheduled for this year (both through Sega), and currently has a relationship with Activision for Spider-Man videogames. Marvel’s Marvel Universe Online MMO, however, is reportedly in trouble as both Cryptic and Marvel have ben silent about the project of late. The game, which was a result of a partnering of Marvel and Cryptic Stuidios was announced in September of 2006.
