Marvel Gaming Universe CONFIRMED - What Needs To Happen Next

After Spider-Man, we're on the cusp of something special.

by Ewan Paterson
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Today, there is no franchise greater (read, popular) than the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Since 2008, Disney, together with Marvel Studios maestro Kevin Feige, have marshalled the Marvel Universe on the big screen to immense success. It's ludicrously big, and now - with the release of Marvel's Spider-Man for the PlayStation 4 - it looks as though the company are looking to recapture the same lightning used to power their cinematic universe, but for a gaming one instead.

Speaking to KindaFunny earlier this week, Insomniac Creative Director Bryan Intihar basically confirmed that Spider-Man - already the best reviewed Marvel video game to date - will act as the 'Iron Man' to a brand new franchise of interconnected stories, characters and titles. Avengers Tower dominates New York's skyline in-game, and with countless other references to the likes of Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and various other NY-based heroes, fans had always speculated that Spider-Man could herald a brand new era for Marvel in the industry.

But the question still remains: what happens next? With countless heroes, villains and stories to adapt, how do Marvel Games turn Spider-Man from just a seminal title, into something far greater altogether?

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.