Marvel To Put Superheroes Online September 30, 2006

Read more Consoles , Gadgets , Games , Home Entertainment , Online , PC , Software

If you can’t beat them, join them. Corny, but true in the case of Marvel Comics, which has teamed up with its arch nemesis, games developer Cryptic Studios to build a massive multiplayer online (MMO) game for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista PCs, based on the Marvel Universe.

This could be so good since Microsoft has already paid Marvel to licence all of its 5,000 heroes and villains for games development. The MMO is currently being developed under the name Marvel Universe Online.

Cryptic created the marvelous City of Heroes and City of Villains MMOs, allowing us normal folk to create our own superheroes and design our own tights. Considering Marvel should have done it first it was a real ‘egg-on-the-face’ scenario. Lawyers and court ensued. Still, hatchets have been buried and Cryptic have proved they can create a great superhero universe. Now all Marvel has to do is to hand over a whole batch of well-loved, and multi-patented superheroes.

No dates yet but expect the latter end of 2007 at the earliest. Cryptic has also quelled fears by saying that City of Heroes and City of Villains will continue as normal. Phew.

news games xbox technology comics