Thor: the Dark World is in theaters everywhere, and we all know it's only for naming uniformity that it's not called Loki: the Dark World. The god of mischief is hot, so of course he's the playable star of Marvel Heroes' update 2.0: Asgard.
Sure, there are already lots of alt-outfits for Spider-Man in Gazillion Entertainment’s click-battle MMO. But this one is Superior.
Diablo-like super hero MMO Marvel Heroes is having launch troubles. Namely, the game not being ready to launch yet.
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Gazillion's Marvel Heroes MMO officially launches on June 4. I'm not signing up until I can play as Squirrel Girl.
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Well, you've hit the jackpot, tiger. Below are ten codes to make like a radioactive spider bite and give you the superpowers to swing into the
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Raise your hands if Daredevil's your favorite superhero. And don't lie because Matt Murdock's super-senses will figure it out. Then you get a billy club to the head. That would hurt.
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Gazillion Entertainment has been bugging me to try out their upcoming free-to-play Marvel Heroes MMO for months now. If they had just come out and told me it was Marvel Diablo, I would have gotten around to it much sooner.
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After years of being referred to as simply Marvel Universe, Gazillion's massively multiplayer superhero game finally has an official name. Unfortunately, it's Marvel Heroes. How can a name featuring such a recognizable name sound so generic?
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It might not be the City of Heroes meets the X-Men we were hoping for, but kids should get a kick out of playing as tiny versions of their favorite Marvel characters in Gazillion Entertainment's Super Hero Squad Online.
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Slipgate Ironworks, the game development company founded by ex-id Software, ex-Ion Storm designer John Romero, has been pared down by parent company Gazillion, Kotaku has learned, with the start up's unnamed MMO still in development with a "smaller core team."
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At the "The State of the MMO" panel at Comic-Con, five massively-multiplayer devs weighed in on the positive changes coming to the genre, lacing as much marketing into their answers as humanly possible.
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We descended into the depths of a hollow space station to try out the player-versus-player combat in NetDevil's Jumpgate Evolution.
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The tentative release date for the Marvel Comics MMO seems to be timed with the release of the Captain America and Avengers movies. That, or the end of the world according to the Mayan Calendar.
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Mystery publisher Gazillion Entertainment have signed a deal with Marvel to produce several massively-multiplayer online titles for the comics powerhouse.
