Firefly fans may soon get a video game to call their own. The Facebook page for the MMO Firefly Universe Online has been relaunched with a promise for a Kickstarter campaign. Are fans' hopes about to be crushed again, or is the game actually coming out?
Firefly Online boasts a large number of the original cast of Firefly as voice actors for their game. These include Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk. Create a captain, a ship, and a crew then explore the verse and try youe best to keep your ship in the sky. Browncoats unite as the game comes to PC, Mac, iOS, and Android with cross-platform play.
Podcasting is a beautiful thing. Every once in a while, when a group of friends gets together on a weekly basis to talk about videogames, a phrase gets uttered that is so silly – so ridiculous – that it just has to be the title of the show.
On this week’s Pixelitis Podcast, the phrase that stuck out had to do with male genitalia. Which in hindsight, is pretty much par for the course. We won’t say who says it, but it was bad enough that it kinda derailed the show for a hot minute.
When Andrew Martins, Karen Rivera and Tom Farndon aren’t dicking around on this show this week, they managed to talk about more Xbox rumors, a Firefly MMO hoax and same-sex lovin’ in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
In a post on their re-activated facebook page, DarkCryo Entertainment's Firefly Universe Online, or FUO for short, will return to development with the blessing of 20th Century FOX themselves after the Facebook page was taken down due to Licensing issues.
Just rewatched it 2 weeks ago. I always get sad at the end because I know, that's it, no more.
An MMO could be sweet!
This would be an interesting game for me to play. I hate the fact that Joss Weeden had his idea stamped in the face by fox.
And I still think Nathan Fillian is the best choice for a character that is witty and charismatic. Hopefully the game doesn't turn out to be another movie game. Btw.... Serenity is now in my que.
As much as I love Firefly, I doubt it'll be a long term success as an MMO.
I want it to succeed, but the MMO market is in transition right now. WoW is the only 'big winner', with the rest fighting over scraps. When a high quality Star Wars MMO from one of the worlds most renowned devs is struggling, then realistically what chance does another Sci-Fi MMO have?
Good luck to them.