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Development footage of what appears to be upcoming superhero action game Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra has exploded upon the internet like Black Panther clawing his way into a seedy Parisian bar and flinging himself at alt-fascist soldiers in a whirlwind of kicked chairs and bursting bottles. This also being the content of said video.

Assuming the leaked goods are the Real McCoy, they suggest that the game will be a fast and furious brawler with a fair amount of environment destruction, which is probably what you’re expecting from a game with Azzuri and Steve Rogers on the poster.

The footage comes to us via MP1st, who attribute it to “a developer who worked on the game”, and say it was created between 2022 and 2023, but do not link to the portfolio that originally contained it.

They’ve also found a selection of images that show various possible Marvel 1943 environments, including a plush lamp-lit hallway, a vast cavern entrance with dangling stalactites, a bunch of building-top areas with glass conservatory roofs, and a hazy nocturnal view of searchlights over what is presumably Paris.

Assuming it’s the Genuine MacGyver, the leaked Black Panther video is very clearly WIP. The fixed camera perspective suggests that it’s an internal test, knocked together to illustrate the flow of a typical Marvel 1943 fight scene. As such, we should be careful about reading too much into it. But I have to say, I do enjoy the 5am cat energy here.

If you live with a younger feline, you’ll be familiar with that time of day when they Catch The Crazy and start zipping about, striking amateur ninjitsu poses and climbing every nearby human bodypart/piece of furniture. I’d love it if Black Panther had a Zoomies mode that caused him to spontaneously sit on Captain America’s face. I’d love it if he had a special terrain execution that consisted of hiding under the sofa and slashing people’s feet off. “D’awww,” the abbreviated sturmtruppen of Hydra would coo, clutching their bloody stumps. “What on Earth is going through his ickle head.”

Developed by Skydance New Media and published by Plaion, with former Naughty Dog scribe Amy Hennig on-board to produce and co-write, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is the story of Captain America and the Panther fighting Hydra in occupied France, though part of it is set in Wakanda. It’s inspired by the comicbook series Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers.

Announced in 2024, the game is slated to land in early 2026. Which is not that far away, and Plaion have shown us little of the game beyond a couple of ‘cinematic’ trailers. I’ll ask them if they have any comment on this footage, and when we can see more of the game.

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Countless Reddit threads and social media posts piled up this week strongly criticizing Blizzard’s decision to add a MOBA-style draft system to Overwatch 2’s popular Stadium mode. Specifically, players were against the removal of mirror matchups where both teams can play as the same heroes.

The response in the last few days, following the launch of the new season, has been so overwhelmingly negative that Blizzard has abandoned the system less than 72 hours after implementing it. The draft mode will stay, but mirror matchups are allowed again.

“We’re grateful to everyone who tried it out and shared feedback,” game director Aaron Keller wrote on X. “As a team, one of our goals is to make the game that you want to play. This involves listening, responding, and taking those desires into account.”

Keller says the team is “still invested in creating new and unique features” but acknowledges that “not everything is just right each time.” “That doesn’t mean we’ll stop trying to innovate,” he added, “but that we’ll adapt and iterate as quickly as we can when something doesn’t land the way we want.”

What was pitched as a system to help you strategically pick your heroes in a mode where you can’t swap mid-match quickly became a reason for people to not play it all. Players argued that Stadium’s limited hero pool (compared to normal OW modes) didn’t support such a severe restriction on your hero picks. It also seemed to defeat the purpose of the mode in the first place, which is to use a set of unique powers and items to build your character over the course of a match.

Hey everyone! We’ve just disabled the mirrored Hero restriction in Stadium Draft . You’ll be able to draft any Hero you’d like, even if the enemy team has already selected them. 1/4 August 28, 2025

MOBAs like League of Legends—where drafting is a common feature—work because they have over a hundred heroes to choose from. The point is to keep teams from playing the exact same heroes every single match once a popular meta forms. Stadium, however, only has 21 heroes available.

“We have six supports. SIX. You can lose access to half your role before you even get a turn,” Reddit user Pizzabro200 wrote.

“There is nothing to be gained from drafts,” Reddit user anarchistbuzzwords said. “It only serves to force counter picking and prevent you from playing the hero you went in wanting to play.”

By removing the mirror matchup restriction, counter-picking heroes is now optional—which is, frankly, how it should’ve been in the first place. Not everyone wants to make pivotal decisions on the hero selection screen, especially in a mode all about adapting on the fly.

To Blizzard’s credit, it’s repeatedly said Stadium will be a mode full of experiments. It’s been steadfast in regularly tweaking and replacing various aspects of the mode since it launched. Even if drafts were a miss, it’s at least nice that we didn’t have to put up with them for an entire season, and that it was willing to flip the switch in the same week it introduced it.

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Alleged Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra fight video shows Black Panther having an Angry Cat moment in a bar

The combined fury of angry Overwatch players forced Blizzard to reverse a change it made less than 72 hours ago: ‘We’re grateful to everyone who tried it out and shared feedback’