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New start up company Gazillion Entertainment has announced a 10 year contract with Marvel to use their 5,000 characters in a new MMO game which is aimed as competition for Blizzard’s World of Warcraft.

Blizzard currently dominate the MMO industry with a turnover of over $1 billion each year with 11.5 million subscribers.

Simon Philips, Marvel’s president of worldwide consumer products, said the company’s stable of more than 5,000 superheroes was “tailor-made for massively multiplayer entertainment that will appeal to a wide audience”.

“Despite the tough economy, the video game industry continues to grow, and MMO games for mass audiences represent the next big opportunity for the upcoming decade,” said Gazillion president and chief executive Rob Hutter. “This is particularly the case for established global entertainment brands like Marvel, which possess hundreds of millions of touch points with fans worldwide.”

The first game in development is a casual MMO for younger audiences based on Marvel’s Super Hero Squad. It is due for release in 2010.

We have seen in movies ho controlling gaming through your mind maybe something to pissibly look forward to in the future. Now that wait is over with the addition of the NIA (Neural Impulse Actuator) from OCZ Technology.

The device, which consists of a headband that plugs into a small black box that then links into your PC, works by picking up signals produced by your brain, eyes and facial muscles. These are then translated into input signals, so if you’re playing a first-person shooter game online and you want to shoot, instead of clicking your mouse you can clench your jaw to have the same result.

The advantages:
“With the NIA, your reflexes don’t have to be propagated down your spinal cord, your peripheral nerves, and then the muscles of your hands,” says Dr. Michael Schuette, OCZ’s VP of technology development. “Instead, it goes instantaneously, so instead of having a 150 or 200 millisecond delay, you can – in an extreme case – get away with a 50-60 millisecond reaction time.”

Cheap at under £100

The Disadvantages:
There have been reports that is takes a while to get used to..

You can buy a NIA from OCZ Technology here @ Amazon for only £99.99