Spiderman coming to your Xbox

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In both good and bad news for comic-book fans, Comic-Con 2005 brought news “that Microsoft and Marvel Enterprises Inc. have signed a licensing agreement that will see Marvel characters appear exclusively in Massively Multiplayer Online Games on the upcoming Xbox 360.” (No explanation was given for what really makes Massively Multiplayer Online Games different. They’re defined as “thousands of players across the world playing the same game simultaneously”—which is more or less what a regular multiplayer online game is.

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