With a Black Panther game, is Marvel Games creating a video game universe?

Electronic Arts announces a 'Black Panther' video game that is being worked by a new studio called Cliffhanger Games. — Electronic Arts/TNS

With all the recent Marvel video game announcements, one has to wonder if Marvel Games is creating its own gaming universe. We have Spider-Man and Wolverine on deck led by Insomniac. Meanwhile, Electronic Arts has an Iron Man in the works, and they've now added Black Panther to its plate.

The Redwood City, California-based company announced that it's working with Cliffhanger Games on an original, third-person single-player Black Panther game. Cliffhanger is a new outfit led by Kevin Stephens, formerly of Monolith Productions makers of "Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor". That bodes well because that studio did a good job crafting a game with solid gameplay and innovative mechanics.