In 2023, EA introduced a single-player Black Panther recreation from Cliffhanger Video games that will have been a AAA title. Nonetheless, EA shut down Cliffhanger practically two years after the announcement, and canceled Black Panther as effectively. Now, among the builders who labored on Black Panther are eulogizing the sport they name “gorgeous” and superb.”
Artist Karla Ortiz wrote on Bluesky that her workforce was “engaged on such an incredible and gorgeous recreation. Detailed, wealthy, stunning. It breaks my coronary heart the world will not see it. It additionally breaks my coronary heart to say goodbye to the workforce.”
Freddie Lee, the senior setting architect on the sport, praised Ortiz and the remainder of the workforce behind Black Panther.
“It needs to be stated that in my quick time there, I’ve had the dignity and pleasure to work with folks like Karla whose artwork impressed myself and the workforce, and likewise [instilled] confidence and progress into my skilled art work,” wrote Lee. “This workforce was, and is GOAT.”
The now-canceled Black Panther recreation was a separate title from Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra, an upcoming title from Skydance New Media that can workforce up Captain America with the Black Panther of World Warfare II–Azzuri–the grandfather of the fashionable Black Panther, T’Challa. Skydance just lately pushed again the discharge of Marvel 1943 to early 2026.
Black Panther is not the one AAA superhero recreation to be canceled just lately. Warner Bros. Video games additionally canceled the formidable Marvel Girl title from Monolith Productions that will have utilized the Nemesis system from the developer’s Lord of the Rings titles. The studio was shuttered, as effectively.
For now, EA nonetheless has its Iron Man recreation in growth as a part of its partnership with Marvel. However as latest occasions have proven, even among the high heroes from Marvel and DC aren’t immune from abrupt cancelations.