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| Marvel Super Hero Squad Online | |
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 Promotional comic distributed as free handout during E3 2010.[2] Cover motif is a pastiche on Secret Wars #1. | |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Release | April 29, 2011 (US Beta)[1] November 4, 2011 (Europe Beta) November 1, 2012 (server merge) |
| Genre(s) | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game |
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was a massively multiplayer free-to-play online game for younger audiences based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad, developed by American video game companies the Amazing Society and Gazillion Entertainment. The open beta version of the game was released on April 29, 2011[1] (although a closed beta was released in early 2011).[3] It was a freemium in-browser game that offered two types of microtransactions: To purchase in-game currency, or a monthly subscription that gave the player additional perks.
Players collected heroes to form their own Squad. They were able to choose a hero from their Squad to play in a number of games and activities. As they played, the heroes increased not only their power in combat, but unlocked animated emotes[4] for use in the social game world zones. Many characters from the Marvel Universe appeared in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online in a traditional Super Hero Squad "super-deformed" style.
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was the first MMO game developed in Gazillion's and Marvel's 10-year exclusive game publishing agreement. The second was Marvel Heroes.
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was shut down on January 11, 2017.[5] Gazillion Entertainment itself shut down on November 22, 2017.[6]
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- ^ "Marvel and Gazillion launch Super Hero Squad Online". theblackboxoffice.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011.
- ^ Faylor, Chris (13 May 2010). "Marvel Super Hero Squad Online Unveiled". Shacknews.
- ^ O'Brien, Lucy (22 November 2017). "Marvel Heroes Developer Gazillion Reportedly Shut Down, Game to Close Early: Employees are currently saying they've been laid off without Severance pay or PTO". IGN. Retrieved 7 June 2021.