“That was so frustrating because we came up with all these great ideas about how to do it.”
While Marvel Rivals is doing pretty damn well (shitty layoffs aside) with the whole lots of Marvel heroes coming together (not in that way) thing, there was once another way we could have seen the comics giant’s costumed crew crossover – via an MCU-eque “Marvel Gaming Universe”. For better or worse though, that idea never became a reality.
This ill-fated concept was discussed by Bungie co-founder Alexander Seropian – who also once served as Disney Interactive Studios’ vice president of game development – and Marvel Rivals writer Alex Irvine on a recent episode of the The Fourth Curtain podcast. The pair naturally got into why it didn’t end up happening, and it sounds like the answer might have something to do with execs not liking to think about tough lore questions.
“When I first started working on Marvel games, there was this idea that they were going to create a Marvel gaming universe that was going to exist in the same way that the MCU did.
