Square Enix's conference was, by all accounts, a bit naff. It was more of a thirty minute presentation than an actual event, and with its main centrepiece being a Kingdom Hearts trailer already revealed the night previously at Microsoft's conference, the whole affair began, proceeded, and then ended with a whimper.
The most glaring problem with the whole thing was, however, the complete lack of information regarding The Avengers Project. Announced back in 2016 with a nifty looking CG trailer, Marvel revealed that they were collaborating with the publisher to develop several projects based on Marvel characters. The two studios said to be involved were Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics, and with rumours surrounding the project having hotted up prior to the conference, fans were expecting - at the least - another trailer.
Instead, Captain America, Iron Man or Thor were nowhere to be found. Square opted to not even acknowledge the project either, leaving gamers scratching their heads as to when the Avengers - and indeed the rumoured Guardians of the Galaxy game - will finally be announced.
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.
