After Square Enix's attempt flopped, Avengers: Endgame and Doomsday directors are "open" to working on their own Marvel team-up game

Marvel's Avengers
(Image credit: Square Enix)

Almost five years ago, Square Enix proved everyone wrong and turned Hollywood's most successful characters into a giant video game failure with Marvel's Avengers. Now, Avengers Endgame directing duo Joe and Anthony Russo now say they're "open" to working on an Avengers game of their own.

The Russo brothers are, of course, part of what made the MCU such a colossal success in the first place thanks to their work in the director's chair on Captain America: The Winder Soldier and Civil War, as well as Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. They're now trying to steady the MCU ship once more with 2026's Avengers: Doomsday and 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars. (Basically Avengers 5 and 6, just in case you stopped keeping up with the MCU circa 2012.)

Whatever video games come out of AGBO or the Russo brothers are more likely to be completely original, however. "Right now, what we're doing is creating new IP," Joe Russo said. "We want to tell new stories with new characters and new worlds that people haven’t seen before... the intention is for every world we build to have the scale and depth of a Star Wars universe, but in a different genre. And then we’ll build materials around those new worlds. We'll tell stories in different ways using different media in those worlds."

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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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