In addition to sending an always interesting signal to shareholders, this announcement is further proof of Electronic Arts’ commitment to major solo productions, as the three projects fall within the register of action-adventure games. The first of them was even announced a month ago, namely the game Iron Man in the works at Motive Studios, which is currently finishing the remake of Dead Space. The team for this third-person single-player game is led by Olivier Proulx, who stays with the theme after producing Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy at Eidos Montreal.
The second project has not yet been officially confirmed by Electronic Arts and Marvel, but serious sources speak of a Black Panther game, one of the most powerful recent icons of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is useless, however, to look for which character will be at the center of the last project, since this one still seems too distant and that even Jeff Grubb haven’t heard anything about him.
Either way, Electronic Arts COO Laura Miele prides herself on driving a strategy to deliver a balanced games portfolio. She also believes that these projects will draw Marvel fans into the Electronic Arts ecosystem who have never or rarely played other EA games, a suck-in phenomenon already seen with Star Wars games. As Bloomberg tells us on the sidelines of the official press release, the first contacts between Laura Miele and Kevin Fiege, president of Marvel Studios, date back four years earlier. Bonds then deepened during the pandemic with Jay Ong, head of video games at Marvel, eventually leading to this partnership.