Second Dinner, a small studio formed by former Blizzard developers, has announced it’s working on a new Marvel game.

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The announcement came along with news that the studio has raised a $30 million minority investment from NetEase, allowing the team to expand beyond its initial five founders and open an office in Irvine, CA.The current job listings include full-time positions for a client engineer and technical artist. Being in the early stages of development, no platforms were announced for the game. Considering the team's previous experience working on the collectible online card game Hearthstone No specific Marvel properties were announced, though Jay Ong of Marvel Games noted “The team they’ve assembled at Second Dinner have made some of the greatest games in history. And now, working with the Marvel Games team and playing in the Marvel Universe… It’s going to be Amazing! Or maybe Spectacular! Or Incredible! Or Mighty! Or quite possibly all of the above!”Second Dinner was created about eight months ago, though CCO Ben Brode noted in an announcement video , “[We’ve been] working on, I think, a sick Marvel game for about six months. We’re doing a prototype and starting play-testing. I think it’s super fun.”“In all likelihood, this will be the best game ever made,” Second Dinner CEO Hamilton Chu said jokingly. “I made a spreadsheet so I’m pretty sure. It’s going to take us a while to make, but we’re already having a lot of fun with the prototype.” Brode Announced he was leaving Blizzard in April 2018 to start a new studio, saying “After 15 years at Blizzard and almost 10 years working on Hearthstone, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to embark on a new journey."Another Marvel game focusing on the Avengers is currently being made by Crystal Dynamics and was announced in early 2017 . It was later announced that former Uncharted director Shaun Escayg and Dead Space producer Stephen Barry joined this project. For more on Hearthstone, check out our review of the game, which we called “Amazing” saying, "The elegant simplicity of Hearthstone’s rules, its impressive attention to detail and personality, and the true viability of playing completely for free make it easy to fall under its spell and get blissfully lost in the depths of its strategic possibilities."

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