Disney Once Planned a Connected Marvel Gaming Universe (Mgu), But It Never Happened
Marvel movies and TV shows are all part of a shared world known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). However, Marvel’s video games tell their own separate stories, with no connection between them.
For example, Marvel’s Spider-Man by Insomniac Games has no link to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy from Eidos-Montreal. Upcoming titles like Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, Marvel’s Wolverine, and Marvel’s Blade are also completely independent from one another.
But things could have been very different. At one point, Disney considered creating a Marvel Gaming Universe (Mgu), which would have tied all Marvel games together in the same way the MCU connects its movies.
The Mgu was first mentioned by Alex Irvine and Alexander Seropian on The Fourth Curtain podcast. Both were involved in the project before it was ultimately scrapped.
Irvine, who has written for multiple Marvel games, explained how the idea...
For example, Marvel’s Spider-Man by Insomniac Games has no link to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy from Eidos-Montreal. Upcoming titles like Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, Marvel’s Wolverine, and Marvel’s Blade are also completely independent from one another.
But things could have been very different. At one point, Disney considered creating a Marvel Gaming Universe (Mgu), which would have tied all Marvel games together in the same way the MCU connects its movies.
The Mgu was first mentioned by Alex Irvine and Alexander Seropian on The Fourth Curtain podcast. Both were involved in the project before it was ultimately scrapped.
Irvine, who has written for multiple Marvel games, explained how the idea...
- 3/20/2025
- by Valentina Kraljik
- Comic Basics
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