{"id":37225,"date":"2012-05-06T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37225"},"modified":"2012-05-08T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:22:33","slug":"rumour-control-ubisoft-making-avengers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37225-rumour-control-ubisoft-making-avengers-game","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Ubisoft making Avengers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s impossible to log onto Facebook or pretty much any other social service at the moment without being inundated with praise for the Avengers movie with entirely too many exclamation points. And stupid Hulk smash jokes to boot.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it a great target for a video game adaptation, and some new evidence shows that French publisher Ubisoft could be doing just that. A newly registered domain name, avengersbattleforearth.com, has caused the flurry of speculation as it was registered by <a title=\"Marvel\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24682-Marvel\">Marvel<\/a> Characters and is listed on the\u00a0<a title=\"Ubisoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11845-Ubisoft\">Ubisoft <\/a>servers, meaning it\u2019s probably not a random fanfiction.<\/p>\n<p>No other information is available at present, or how far along in the development process this game even is, if it does indeed exist. The game, presumably titled Avengers: Battle for Earth, is an extremely well-kept secret if it is indeed real, and is sure to net Ubisoft several millions of dollars regardless of whether or not it\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/346647\/avengers-battle-for-earth-domain-points-to-ubi-tie-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The Avengers game that never was\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36501-the-avengers-game-that-never-was.html\">The Avengers game that never was<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Ubisoft invests $500m into Splinter Cell studio\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37115-ubisoft-invests-500m-into-splinter-cell-studio.html\">Ubisoft invests $500m into Splinter Cell studio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36170-its-time-for-our-medium-to-grow-up-says-jade-raymond.html\">\u201cIt\u2019s time for our medium to grow up,\u201d says Jade Raymond <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35551-top-fan-suggestions-for-assassins-creed-3-were-the-worst-says-ubisoft.html\">Top fan suggestions for Assassin\u2019s Creed 3 were \u201cthe worst\u201d, says Ubisoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35221-developers-want-next-gen-consoles-to-be-more-update-friendly.html\">Developers want next-gen consoles to be more \u2018update friendly\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New domain registration causes buzz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":37226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[31,4074,4075,733],"class_list":["post-37225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-avengers","tag-avengers-battle-for-earth","tag-ubisoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37227,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37225\/revisions\/37227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}