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Marvel Comics Signs With Gazillion Entertainment In MMO Deal

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Marvel Comics has some of the most famous characters around, so certainly a number of compelling MMO games could be built around their famous stable of heroes. Gazillion Entertainment will take the Marvel Comics characters and build interesting virtual worlds around them.

Gazillion has 300 employees and is already developing games for LEGO and Mattel. The deal with Marvel promises to bear a lot of fruit for both companies.

Marvel is continuing to rise.

he timing for the games is good because Marvel is in a golden age and has a whole slate of movies coming — Spider-Man 4, Thor, Captain America and Iron Man 2. On average, the 14 Marvel films made since 2000 have generated $400 million in box office receipts each. Marvel itself is not investing in the games; rather Gazillion has the responsibility of bearing the cost to make the games. By contrast, Marvel itself has taken over the production of its own movies, allowing it to become a major film company.

You’ll be hearing more about Gazillion in coming months. So far the company has kept quiet about their operations and has been operating in a stealthy manner until details of their game developments fleshes out.