Don’t blame Thanos: “Marvel Snap” is a casualty of the U.S. government’s move to ban TikTok over fears about its parent comp

‘Marvel Snap’ Game Also Goes Dark and Is Pulled From App Stores Because of TikTok Ban

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2025-01-19 12:30:04

Don’t blame Thanos: “Marvel Snap” is a casualty of the U.S. government’s move to ban TikTok over fears about its parent company’s Chinese ties.

It’s not just TikTok that winked offline for U.S. users Saturday, just hours before the Jan. 19 deadline specified by the U.S. divest-or-ban law targeting TikTok. At least 10 other ByteDance-owned apps also were disabled and removed from app stores Saturday night because of a U.S. law prohibiting them from being distributed in the country unless the Beijing-based company sold the apps — including “Marvel Snap,” a digital collectible card game featuring characters from the Disney-owned studio. Related Stories VIP+ Training AI Models Shows Benefit for Animation but Raises Ethical and Legal Questions Warner Music/Blavatnik Foundation to Donate $1 Million to Fire Relief in Los Angeles

On Saturday night, “Marvel Snap,” developed by Second Dinner and published by ByteDance’s Nuverse games division, was pulled from Apple and Google app stores. The app also displayed a message to American players that the game was temporarily unavailable. Popular on Variety