Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. on Thursday said it has signed a deal with comic book publisher Marvel Enterprises Inc. to develop a series of fighting games pitting newly developed EA characters against Marvel superheroes like Spider-Man. Redwood City, California-based EA, the world's largest independent game publisher, said Marvel would act as licensing agent for the new characters and would publish comic books based on them. The games are under development at EA's studio in Canada and the first one is expected to be released toward the end of calendar 2005. An EA spokeswoman said the deal includes more than 100 of Marvel's superhero characters, such as Spider-Man and the X-Men. However, it does not include the Hulk or Punisher characters.
Marvel already has a licensing arrangement with Activision Inc. for Spider-Man and X-Men, but the EA spokeswoman said the new deal would not affect those licenses, as it covers only fighting games. Traditionally, EA's strengths have been sports games and games based on major movie licenses. The company has done little with the superhero genre or the fighting genre to date, though it has acquired licenses to make games based on Batman and Superman. Marvel, riding high on a string of successful movies based on its portfolio of characters, has had mixed results with the games industry.
News source: Reuters
Marvel already has a licensing arrangement with Activision Inc. for Spider-Man and X-Men, but the EA spokeswoman said the new deal would not affect those licenses, as it covers only fighting games. Traditionally, EA's strengths have been sports games and games based on major movie licenses. The company has done little with the superhero genre or the fighting genre to date, though it has acquired licenses to make games based on Batman and Superman. Marvel, riding high on a string of successful movies based on its portfolio of characters, has had mixed results with the games industry.
News source: Reuters
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im guessing it is the street figherstyle prolly 3d though or something
back on sega genesis x-men and x-men 2 were great!
Its going to be Def Jam all over again
EA has the tendancy to "rush" games on the market weeeeeks before it's actually good. EA likes the market, but has no respect for perfection...
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