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Facebook Avengers Alliance Will Use PvP to Draw in Hardcore Comic Fans

Marvel will make headlines when it comes to multiplayer gaming in the coming year with the high profile Gazillion MMO project set to arrive during 2013, but until then gamers are able to get their superhero fix on Facebook, where an Avengers social game will try to bridge the gap between hardcore and casual players. ...

3 February 2012
09:21 GMT

Marvel Universe Will Allow Multiple Players to Inhabit the Same Superhero

DC Universe Online from Sony Online Entertainment has managed to chart a path for success for the superhero-powered MMO, but the team behind the upcoming competitor Marvel Universe are saying that their game will raise the stakes by allowing players to actually inhabit the personas of well-known characters from the M...

5 May 2011
05:37 GMT

New Voices Coming to DC Universe Online

Sony Online Entertainment has announced four new actors that will be lending their voices to superhero characters that will appear in the upcoming DC Universe Online, the MMO which is now scheduled to be launched on the PlayStation 3 and the PC in the early part of 2011.Arleen Sorkin is set to again become Harley Qui...

27 October 2010
04:25 GMT

Champions Online Has More than 1 Million Characters

Cryptic Studios has announced that its recently launched MMO Champions Online now has more than 1 million characters created and running around saving the in-game world. The videogame was published by Atari, which was acquired Cryptic earlier in the year, and offers players a chance to choose their appearance, their ...

30 October 2009
14:11 GMT

One Hour With: Prototype

Super hero games. Everyone loves them because they offer people the ability to pretend they have superpowers. From jumping buildings in a single bound to obliterating everyone in one's destructive path, all of them fascinate people and gamers make no exception. Activision's latest attempt to the super hero...

13 June 2009
04:21 GMT

Sci-Fi Superheroes to Boost Interest in Sciences

One of the main problems facing the scientific communities in the Western world today is one that shouldn't even exist in any civilized nation – how do we get more young people interested in science? While some argue that talking directly to children in their classrooms may seem like the best idea, others ...

31 March 2009
09:53 GMT

Champions Online Won't Have Hellgate Problems

It's tough to launch a MMO these days. After all, World of Warcraft, Blizzard's project, has now more than 11 million subscribers and the second expansion for the game, Wrath of the Lich King, which has just been released, has the potential to draw even more players. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and T...

13 November 2008
18:11 GMT

Closed Beta for Champions Online

Cryptic Studios announce that they plan to launch a closed beta for Champions Online, the MMO featuring superheroes which the developer intends to release sometime in early 2009. The announced beta is PC only, although the game is also slated to be out for the Xbox 360, and all you have to do is visit the game s...

15 October 2008
04:07 GMT

Watch Out for Champions

Cryptic are now working on an MMOG titled Champions Online, which aims to bring superheroes, arch-nemesis and fully destructible environments to the players. Sounds familiar? I bet it does because Cryptic were previously working on Marvel Universe Online. As that project got canned everybody thought heroes-and-villai...

21 February 2008
02:57 GMT

Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? It's Googleman!

While reading about Friday's "Superhero day" at Google's London office, I remembered my childhood when we all used to wrap our blankies around our shoulders and catch them with a safety pin up front and pretend that we were Batman or Superman, Wonder Woman for the girls and so on and so forth, all dependin...

17 December 2007
03:49 GMT


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