Microsoft Enters MMOG Deal with Marvel Comics

Chris Gondek writes "Microsoft announced it will enter an exclusive deal with Marvel for to develop a Marvel based MMOG for the Xbox 360." From the article: "Although the games will not be released until 2008, according to news agency Reuters, Marvel worldwide president of Consumer Media Tim Rothwell has indicated that it will be the only such MMO deal the company will make - ensuring that no Marvel MMO can appear on the PlayStation 3 or Revolution." So we're going to have a DC supers MMOG, a Marvel supers MMOG, and CoH. May you live in interesting times, indeed.

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Great! New Marvel heroes coming

[AtariAmarok]

The Uncanny X-box-men
Captain Bluescreen
The Clipperine
However, I forget the superhero name of the fat guy in the skintight butterfly suit.

In a capitalist world

[AtariAmarok]

"But then again we are taling about a company that wasted millions buying Rare AFTER the company died..."

Beating a dead horse is for the long-gone socialist world. In the capitalist world, you buy the dead horse.

Re:innovation is alive and well in Redmond, WA

[dr_leviathan]

Hey, where did my end-sarcasm tag go? Hrm... "plain old text" formatting must strip anything that looks like an HTML tag. Oh well.

Irony doesn't just mean "sort of like iron"

[Rob T Firefly]

Assuming Marvel's character creation engine turns out worth a damn, will the COH folks be able to sue Marvel over the ability to creat Marvel-style copies of the copyrighted COH characters?