Sorry, Marvel Rivals Fans, Moon Knight’s Not Getting Paid on the New Map

NetEase’s wildly popular hero shooter Marvel Rivals has been having a vampire problem this season. The arrival of the Fantastic Four within the game as part of the “Empire of Eternal Night” storyline has also seen Dracula himself become the big bad of the new series of maps rolling out this season, as heroes battle to liberate New York from his despotic control. But the focus on Dracula, and Rivals‘ latest map in particular, has helped revive a classic Moon Knight meme. Last week’s debut of the Season 1.5 update in Rivals—which, aside from bringing in the Thing and Human Torch as playable characters, included the second in a series of maps set in a vampire-infested New York, Central Park—has really pushed the game’s feud with Dracula to the fore of its environmental storytelling. The new map, which sees players fight over escorting the Asgardian squirrel god Ratatoskr, whose magical horn can help the heroes bring Dracula down for good, has a ton of cool references, and even a fleeting ... Read full article.