Marvel’s Next Game is Coming from Skydance and Uncharted’s Amy Hennig

Since Insomniac Games confirmed up with Spider-Man in 2018 for the PS4, Marvel’s been doing their greatest to construct a resume of profitable AAA video games. They’ve largely been good at it — Spider-Man: Miles Morales was fairly good, and Spider-Man 2 correct ought to be fairly good as nicely; the Guardians of the Galaxy sport from this week has been a pleasing shock — and now the writer has a brand new developer of their pocket.

Yesterday, Marvel introduced a partnership with Skydance’s New Media division that’ll see the creation of a brand new action-adventure sport based mostly on one other Marvel character. New Media might be headed up by its president Amy Hennig, who avid gamers will know as the author of the Legacy of Kain sequence and as artistic director and author for Naughty Dog’s first three Uncharted video games. (She’s additionally the author for Square Enix’s Forspoken, releasing subsequent spring.)

In a press assertion, Hennig expressed pleasure for the brand new partnership. “The Marvel Universe epitomizes all the action, mystery and thrills of the pulp adventure genre that I adore and lends itself perfectly to an interactive experience. It’s an honor to be able to tell an original story with all the humanity, complexity, and humor that makes Marvel characters so enduring and to enable our players to embody these heroes that they love.”

The new sport might be a “narrative-driven, blockbuster action-adventure game,” which largely appears to be the bread and butter of this new wave of Marvel video games. Already, followers are speculating about who the subsequent hero to get a solo sport might be. A preferred selection thus far appears to be Daredevil, a hero who inevitably will get introduced up whenever you discuss Marvel media.

Whoever the lead hero (or heroes) finally ends up being for this new sport, they’ll have plenty of eyes on them when it’s lastly introduced. But a minimum of we all know one factor about it: former io9 man Evan Narcisse will be involved, so it ought to be good when it will definitely arrives on consoles and PC.

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