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Gazillion Entertainment is adding full voice overs to family friendly MMO Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, teasing a cast full of familiar names.

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Gazillion has licensed Unreal Engine 3 for its upcoming MMO, Marvel Heroes. According to studio director Jeff Lind, the choice of tech comes down to the engine’s flexible actor components, which have enabled “all kinds of customisations”, while other representatives praised the lighting and quick import of pre-existing assets. Epic seems pretty chuffed about it, with licensing manager Joe Kreiner noting the team grew up with Marvel characters. That is all. The MMO has not been dated.

Gazillion’s upcoming MMORPG based on the Marvel comics universe has been renamed.

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Keeping up with its Marvel Universe Online reveals, MMOSociety has renders of Iron Man up on the site for perusing. Previously revealed characters include Thor, Deadpool, Wolverine, and Captain America.

A release date has not been set for Gazillion’s MMO.

MMOSociety has unveiled Marvel Universe Online’s take on Thor, the Avenger suddenly popularised by the recent film. Previously revealed characters include Deadpool, Wolverine, and Captain America.

No release date has been set for Gazillion’s PC-exclusive MMORPG.

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Don’t underestimate gaming’s shift to a service-based business model, warns Dan Fiden, VP of publishing at Marvel Universe and Fortune Online developer Gazillion Entertainment.

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Gazillion’s announced it’s to bring two new MMOs to Europe. Marvel Super Hero Squad Online and Fortune Online, both of which are in beta right now, will come to the continent via ProSiebenSat.1 Digital. The titles are free-to-play and browser based. There’s more info on it at Joystiq.

Shorts are short this afternoon. But that’s, okay. Never heard anyone complain about such a thing unless they’re being sported by large, hairy man.

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Secret Identity does have an answer for the old “how the heck can we all play as Spider-Man?” question Marvel Universe has raised, but it’s not saying what it is.

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If you can’t wait for Marvel Universe Online, why not dip the toe in with the just-released Marvel Super Hero Squad Online?

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Gazillion held a press event in San Francisco yesterday, which dished loads of details regarding its Marvel Universe MMO, plus confirming the fact it will be free-to-play.

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Gazillion Entertainment has announced it has appointed ex-Cryptic man John Needham as its new CEO.

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Ex-id and Ion Storm co-founder John Romero is no longer at Slipgate Ironworks, a company he helped form in 2005, and is reportedly working with business partner Tom Hall on a social network game called Loot Drop.

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Remember when John Romero tried to make you his bitch?

Yeah. He’s really sorry about that.

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Marvel MMO creator Gazillion is really, really busy. It’s got up to seven games in the works, in fact.

“We actually have six or seven titles that are in production right now,” marketing boss Paul Baldwin told Joystiq at GDC.

Gazillion, founded in 2005, was announced as being the developer of Marvel MMOs for the next ten years earlier this month.

The first “adult” game to emerge from the partnership won’t hit till 2012. A children’s title, based on cartoon Superhero Squad will hit in 2010.

According to this BigDownload article, Marvel’s “grown up” Gazillion MMO won’t release until 2012.

Apparently the date’s been picked as there’s a bunch of Marvel movie content turning up in the same year.

Given that’s the projected date, and MMOs are the least stable of all development projects, waiting for this is likely to be something akin to “pissing in the wind”.

You haven’t got anything better to do, though. Right?

Marvel and start-up developer Gazillion have signed a ten-year deal to deliver MMOs based on Marvel characters.

The first, a kid-aimed game called Super Hero Squad, will debut in 2010 as a tie-in with a Cartoon Network show.

Beyond that, Gazillion will continue with its own version of a giant Marvel game, dubbed Marvel Universe, for both the PC and consoles.

Gazillion has been operating under the guise of NR2B Research up to this point, and employs 300 staff in the US.

The company is the owner of NetDevil, currently working on Lego Universe.

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