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Title: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: Azazel on February 01, 2008, 05:12:52 PM http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=32517
Comic book giant and publisher end relationship Electronic Arts and Marvel Entertainment have terminated an agreement to create titles based on the comic giant's intellectual property. The deal was first announced in 2004 and allowed EA to create games featuring multiple Marvel characters despite rival publishers owning the rights to specific characters, such as Activision's Spider-Man deal. EA was allowed to create new characters for inclusion in the games, which Marvel would then spin-off into other media, most notably comic books. The first fruit of this deal was the poorly-received Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects game released in 2005. EA Chicago was also said to have been working on a Marvel fighting game, but the studio was closed down late last year. "EA and Marvel have jointly agreed to discontinue development of the Marvel titles under the EA Games label," said the company, reports GameTap. "This was a business decision based on EA's portfolio strategy." Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: Azazel on February 01, 2008, 05:59:45 PM Wasn't EA supposed to be doing the Marvel MMOPUGGER?
Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: Trippy on February 01, 2008, 06:04:36 PM No Cryptic and Microsoft were.
Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: stray on February 01, 2008, 06:08:38 PM Activision should just get it all. Their marvel games have been decent.
Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: schild on February 01, 2008, 06:15:44 PM (http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3440/marvelvscapcompaljy1.jpg)
Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: stray on February 01, 2008, 06:42:16 PM That too.. Wouldn't mind seeing what Capcom could do with Marvel besides fighting games as well. LP and Bionic Com have the grappler thing goin' on... There's your spidey game right there.
Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: Ragnoros on February 03, 2008, 12:23:59 AM "REALLY INSANELY HUGE PICTURE" That. Also, this has got to be the smartest thing Marvel has done in a long time. Not to be an EA hater but everything they touch becomes :uhrr: Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: stray on February 03, 2008, 12:25:40 AM I've been liking some EA stuff as of late actually (read: skate).
Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: schild on February 03, 2008, 12:34:04 AM I'm looking forward to Bad Company and that TF2 ripoff BF.
Actually, there's a whole pile of EA stuff I'm looking forward to. Some genres, however, they shouldn't touch. Like fighting. Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: Trippy on February 03, 2008, 12:39:38 AM What happened to that boycott EA thing?
Title: Re: EA and Marvel terminate Dev Deal Post by: schild on February 03, 2008, 01:04:59 AM They stopped releasing shitty game after shitty game?
It ended back with C&C3, like, a year ago or whatever. In fact, I publically announced it. Nintendo devved console games are still being boycotted though. Smash Bros can eat a dick. |