T’Challa, King of Wakanda, may be dead in the MCU, but he will live on in the world of video games. Electronic Arts just announced today that a Black Panther video game is now in development. This will be a full-fledged Triple A production so huge, EA is creating a new studio just to make it.
Cliffhanger Games is the name of the studio, and Black Panther will be its first project for EA. Based in Seattle, the team will be helmed by Kevin Stephens, formerly the boss of Monolith Productions.
“We’re dedicated to delivering fans a definitive and authentic Black Panther experience, giving them more agency and control over their narrative than they have ever experienced in a story-driven video game,” Stephens said. “Wakanda is a rich Super Hero sandbox, and our mission is to develop an epic world for players who love Black Panther and want to explore the world of Wakanda as much as we do.”
EA entered a partnership with Marvel to produce three games — this is one, and an already announced Iron Man game from Motive Studio is another. Both titles are beloved to be single-player action adventures (we’re not sure how you’d force something about a single character into a GaaS model anyway, not that anyone wants that).
This is actually the second video game with Black Panther in it that is in development; Marvel Games and Skydance New Media announced Black Panther/Captain America: Flags of Our Fathers last fall — a team-up game where Cap and T-Challa’s grandfather battle Nazis.




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