In an interview with MTV's Multiplayer, Microsoft's Shane Kim confirmed that Marvel Universe Online, which was being developed by Cryptic Studios, has been canceled. Apparently, a debate between whether or not to use a subscription-based business model was part of the reason why development was stopped. The fact that the genre is also highly competitive lead to its eventual cancellation.

"Marvel and we have agreed to end development on the MMO," said Kim in the MTV interview. "It was an amicable decision.... It's just something that we felt that, for us and for them, it would be better if we ended development. Which is disappointing, because that had a lot of promise. But sometimes you have to make these decisions."