marvel-mmo posts

We are now officially into spring and with GDC starting next week the news front has been buzzing with announcements. Let's look at the highlights for the past seven days:
Exclusive features

• Blacklight: We get some of the first info on Zombie's upcoming shooter and even more info via a chat with Zombie CEO Mark Long.
• Marvel MMO: We get a heads-up on plans for the latest attempt to turn the Marvel super hero universe into a massively multiplayer game.
• Unreal Atlas: We find out about how Epic Games China plans to make Unreal Engine 3 easier for MMO developers to use.
• Tom Clancy's EndWar review: We give our final verdict on the PC port of Ubisoft's console RTS game.
• Mac Monday: Our regular weekly column on Mac games takes a look at CrossOver Games which lets PC games play on the Mac.
• Indie Showcase: Our weekly look at indie games takes a look at few of the better tower defense based games.
• Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes questions whether games can truly be educational.
• Big Iron: Our weekly hardware column looks at hardware failures.
• Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free games takes a gander at the puzzle title Boom Boom Driller.

By John Gaudiosi

According to Rob Hutter, CEO and president of Gazillion Entertainment, the best way to combat Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, the Goliath of the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game business, is to think bigger. The new privately-held MMO game publisher, based in San Mateo, CA, is focusing on the large untapped mainstream audience that Nintendo has captured with its now-ubiquitous Wii console. Although Gazillion is developing a trio of original mass market MMOs, none of which have been revealed yet, its first two big licensing deals are with Marvel Entertainment and LEGO.