Marvel's Wolverine Is Opening The Door For My Favorite Hero To Get His Own Game Next

Insomniac's Marvel Universe is due to get bigger with the launch of, taking the series — which has only consisted of games so far — outside of New York with a cast of new characters pulled from the comics. While the games have been no stranger to some more mature themes, seems to be pushing this further with the hiring of writer Walt D. Williams to pen a story far darker than the T-rated titles that came before it, and because of this, I feel it's time for Marvel to turn its attention to one of my favorite heroes from the grittier side of the Marvel Universe who has been largely overlooked in gaming: Daredevil.

Daredevil is undoubtedly one of my favorite street-level heroes in the Marvel Universe — I've even cosplayed as him on a few occasions — largely in part due to how he is a complex character who is built of contradictions. Matt Murdock is a defense lawyer by day, but a vigilante by night, and is a practicing Catholic who dons the guise of a devil to take on his foes. While there have been some lighter elements to Daredevil, the character has largely become part of more mature story arcs that deal less with cosmic beings like other Marvel heroes and more with helping his neighborhood, whether it's by protecting the vulnerable through the law through his legal practice with Foggy Nelson, to taking on their oppressors as his masked alter-ego.

Despite Daredevil's 50+ year legacy as a Marvel superhero, the devil of Hell's Kitchen is largely skipped over in gaming in favor of the usual heroes.

Daredevil may have appeared in many team-up titles, such as the series, but outside of a Game Boy Advance side-scrolling beat-'em-up tie-in for the 2003 movie, he hasn't had the chance to headline his own title.A third-person beat ‘em up game, ,was in the works at 5,000 Ft. Studios for the PS2, Xbox, and PC that would have loosely followed Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's comic run, with Fisk being assassinated and the gangs of New York fighting for territory. I remember