Activision Bags Marvel RPG
Being a Marvel superhero is apparently the new big thing. Or maybe they're just trying to cash in on the comics craze.
Everybody wants to be a superhero, or at least that's what comics publisher Marvel seems to think.
Less than a month after the company asked Microsoft to make a massively multiplayer online RPG based on its characters, Marvel has jumped into bed with Activision, who will make a "non-persistant" - and presumably offline - RPG starring Marvel characters.
Neither company is keen to give specifics yet, nor is there word on which of Marvel's 5,000 characters we can expect in the game.
But Activision does seem to have leeway in choosing who will star, as the deal lets the company tap into "a broader base of characters from Marvel's expansive universe" than it has so far in the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and X-Men games.
The first game to come out of the deal between Activision and Marvel should be out during 2007.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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