When TikTok was temporarily blocked in the US at the weekend, one of the unexpected knock-on effects was the simultaneous blocking of Marvel Snap, a CCG starring the usual gaggle of buoyant American superheroes.

Superhero card game Marvel Snap has been taken offline in the USA as part of the US government's ban-or-divest policy

The social media app TikTok was banned in the US today and, as it turns out, so was the popular online card game Marvel Snap.

Marvel Snap is back online in the U.S. following a brief absence in association with the TikTok ban. The popular card battle game created by California-based developer Second Dinner was temporarily pulled from American app stores on Jan.

TikTok owner ByteDance shut down Marvel Snap and all its U.S. apps after the TikTok ban went into effect. That surprised Ben Brode, the game’s creator, who spoke to us about the brief ban and the future of the popular game.

Marvel Snap is now back online in the US after an unexpected outage related to the weekend's TikTok ban, and Second Dinner has plans for the game.

Marvel Snap is once again available to users in the United States, following the aftermath of the TikTok ban and the actions against ByteDance, but it still isn't on Apple's App Store.

The popular digital card game Marvel Snap was unexpectedly affected by a U.S. ban on TikTok. The game is back online now, but it might not stay that way. The original ban, part of a law called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,