Marvel Snap down, caught in the TikTok ban

While all the focus was on TikTok this past week as the company prepared to — and ultimately did — shut down its video-sharing app to comply with a national security law specifically targeting the ByteDance-owned company, the U.S. action has resulted in had a ripple effect. Marvel Snap players discovered on Saturday night that the card battler game had also gone dark and was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores at the same time as TikTok. The game remains down, as do several others with connections to ByteDance.

In a statement released by Second Dinner, the studio is behind it Snapgame getting caught in the net of the TikTok shutdown was a complete surprise. But since the game is published by Nuverse, a subsidiary of ByteDance, the app was held to the same complicated standards as TikTok. Second dinner was quick to promise it Snap “going nowhere.”

The move also came as a surprise to fans, who received no warning that the game would shut down in accordance with the law. But at least they made some good posts about it.

According to users who are also hitting a wall and unable to access or download games, the ban has affected other Nuverse titles such as Land of Empires: Immortal, Land of Empires: Dice Heroand Mission EVO. Games from the ByteDance-owned Moonton were also hit by the law, i.a Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Mobile Legends: Adventure, Watcher of Realms, One Punch Man The Strongest.