
If you have been waiting for this, gamers here's the bad news. Activision said that it no longer holds the rights for classic comic. Marvel says that the new license holder will be revealed just this fall.
Activision was announcing in January 2003 that it managed to extend its agreement with Marvel Entertainment so they can make the games based on four of its classic comic book franchises: X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic 4, and Iron Man.
The agreement was pretty good, because it gave Activision the rights to make games through 2009. Plus it allowed the publisher to make game tie-ins to films based on them.
Like we already know, 'till Iron Man we had movies and games, Spiderman, X-Men, Fantastic 4... had them all. But this week the first teaser poster for the film adaptation Iron Man was released. The movie will be released on cinemas on May 2, 2008.
Now all that's left is for Activision to come up with a game version of the comic and to be in stored around the same time as the movie. But that hope was crushed pretty quickly.
"We did have the rights to make an Iron Man game, but no longer retain said rights. So I cannot comment on the status of any game project related to the film", said a representative of Activision. He did not mention why Activision doesn't have the rights anymore. Marvel will make the announcement just in this fall.




