The MCU (Marvel Connected Universe) was a record-breaking success on the big screen, but plans for a similar MGU (Marvel Gaming Universe) were apparently scrapped because Disney was worried about it becoming a logistical nightmare Author and Marvel Rivals writer Alex Irvine said as much on The Fourth Curtain podcast, explaining that when he first started working with the superhero factory, "there was this idea that they were going to create, like, a Marvel gaming universe that was going to exist in the same way [as] the MCU." Bungie co-founder and former Disney Interactive Studios boss Alex Seropian backed up those claims. "That was my initiative," he says.
"It was pre-MCU, but it didn't get funded." Essentially, projects like Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Blade , and EA's upcoming Black Panther game would exist in the same continuity and intersect, a la the Avengers films. Irvine explains his idea also involved ARGs, so the developers "could link in comics" and "loop in anything" or "could do original stuff.
" Some of the ideas sound wildly ambitious, but that's also why the MGU never went ahead. "Even back then, we were trying to figure out, 'If there’s going to be this MGU, how is it different from the comics? How is it different from the movies? How are we going to decide if it stays consistent?' And I think some of those questions got complex enough that there were people at Disney who didn't really want to deal with them," Irvine explained. "That was so frustrating bec.