The superhero action MMO Marvel Heroes 2015 will soon undergo the next rebranding and will actually be called Marvel Heroes 2016.
Recently, we already reported in a special that Marvel Heroes will be renamed regularly to squeeze out new tests from the press. Since no paid expansions are being made and everything is free2play, they want to use regular rebranding to set accents like paid games with large expansions do.
Now Marvel Heroes mastermind David Brevik has given an interview to pcgamesn, and the details are clear: It will indeed be Marvel Heroes 2016 – no Marvel Heroes: Age of something – or whatever else might have been offered.
An example of how Marvel heroes are represented in the game, everyone’s favorite rodent Rocket Raccoon:
The renaming will coincide with a major update, so the following are planned for the future:
- Controller support
- a better inventory system
- a new story chapter, the tenth, featuring the alien race Skrulls
- Cool new bosses from the Skrulls, one has the abilities of the X-Men, the other of the Fantastic Four
- Steam achievements
- The Mac version is supposed to exit beta
- And they will introduce leaderboards
The renaming and the patch will happen in “a few months,” still this fall.
Outrageous: We will have to redesign our brand new Marvel Heroes 2015 theme page soon, otherwise it will be outdated again.
