MMO

If you weren't selected to participate in the Marvel Heroes closed beta or haven't gotten to try it out at convention booths, the wait to take Gazillion's new MMO for a spin is almost over. On June 4, the game will be available to play for free at the MH website, although fans who've opted to buy founders program packs will be beating up bad guys as early as May 28...

Somewhere in the latest three gameplay/Founders Program/preview videos Gazillion has released for its upcoming Marvel Heroes MMO there's clear in-game footage, snippets of voice acting and information about exclusive character skins, including Iron Man XLVII and Symbiote Spider-Man...

I'm not really a fan of MMORPGs. Nothing against the genre and its millions of fans, you understand, but I've checked, and it turns out that very few of them allow you to play as 50 Cent on a quest to recover his jewel-encrusted skull, and that sort of thing is very important to me when it comes time to make my entertainment choices...

TV: Cartoon Network's Toonami block will expand to expands to 6 hours next week and run from midnight-6am. History: Scientific American's "Buddhist "Iron Man" Found by Nazis Is from Space" headline doesn't really have anything to do with comics or superheroes, but it's still an interesting read...

One of the highlights of San Diego Comic-Con for Marvel gaming fans was the debut of the much-anticipated free-to-play MMO action RPG, Marvel Heroes in playable form. I asked the developer Gazillion's Director of Community, Stephen Reid, why they didn't show the game at E3 and he replied, "Because we wanted it to debut it where the fans are...

Deadpool literally stole the show during the latter portion of today's Marvel Video Games panel at San Diego Comic-Con by busting open the back doors of Ballroom 6 and announcing his own Deadpool video game developed by Activision's High Moon Studios coming in 2013 (and not a solo Hit-Monkey game, as an early website launch teased)...

The superhero character models teased by Gazillion Games over the past several months finally came alive today in a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming free-to-play Marvel Heroes MMO RPG by Diablo's David Brevik and written by Marvel's Brian Michael Bendis...

Though the increase hasn't manifested without its share of problems, Sony's DC Universe Online MMO has definitely recruited some new players -- like, a ton of them. According to Sony Online Entertainment's executive director of entertainment Lorin Jameson, "DC Universe Online's transition to free-to-play has been welcomed by the community and gamers with heroic enthusiasm...

Movies: The Dark Knight Rises score composer Hans Zimmer is inviting fans to submit their voice to be used as part of a massive chant for the film. Internships: Portland's Oni Press is looking for interns for 2012. Applicants must be 18 or older...

Last month Sony announced that its DC Comics MMO DC Universe Online would go free-to-play at some point in October. As announced yesterday in a live video chat, it looks like the wait will actually be over for fans on November 1 on both PC and the PlayStation 3...