Last summer, EA and Marvel stirred up the hopes of many Marvel fanboys as they announced their latest collaboration. This lasted very shortly as today Marvel announced their decision to part ways on the project.
The game was slated to be a fighting game that would host characters from Marvel’s universe. This new project was set to be EA’s first venture into the Marvel universe but EA has since closed the studio that was to be responsible for the title. Because of the recent turmoil over at EA, Marvel made their announcement official that the deal with EA had been called off.
"Electronic Arts and Marvel have jointly agreed to discontinue development of Marvel fighting games under the Electronic Arts brand," said Justin Lombros, VP of Marvel Interactive. "This was a business decision based on Electronic Arts portfolio strategy and will not affect Marvel’s ongoing plans to release fighting games based on the Marvel properties in the future."
Although unsuccessful with EA, Marvel hopes to pursue other developers and publishers to work on a future fighting game but no official word has been released pertaining to specific companies.