dimfuture.net

I know, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted any news. Well, there wasn’t any news worth talking about for a long time. Except for that Peter Jackson / Hobbit thing, which is just too depressing to get into. But look! Dear, sweet, kung pao style Jesus, look!

This just seems too good to be true — and it probably is. From Wired:

Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.

Now that’s shiny.

Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it’s struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG in the fashion of Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online.

The “Browncoats,” as Firefly’s most devoted fans are known, have been campaigning to bring the show back almost since the moment it was canceled in late 2002. Now they’ll get their wish, albeit in a new form.

Now, while I have no illusions that your average MMORPG player is not going to be capable of Joss Whedon-level dialogue, this is very exciting all the same. If ever a game could lure me away from the soul-shriveling siren call of World of Warcraft, this is it. Cross your fingers, Browncoats.