Halo co-creator Alex Seropian has joined Disney Interactive Studios as "vice president of creative," a new role that will see the outspoken industry veteran "overseeing creative development across Disney Interactive Studios' portfolio of video games."

In addition, Disney will acquire Chicago-based Stubbs the Zombie and Hail to the Chimp developer Wideload Games, which Seropian formed after leaving Halo developer Bungie. Prior to joining Disney, Seropian had been serving as CEO of Wideload.

"At Wideload, we've conscientiously built a forward-looking approach to game development that borrows many techniques from the film industry. Now, Wideload will be a part of one of the largest, most respected entertainment companies... Read more

Disney has announced that it intends to buy comic book giant Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash deal worth around $4 billion, subject to Marvel shareholder approval.

The deal includes Marvel's over 5000 characters, who have starred in games ranging from the sublime 1992 X-Men arcade side-scroller and gory X-Men Origins: Wolverine, to the critically-panned movie tie-ins Iron Man and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

"We are not doing crappy movie-based games anymore," Marvel digital media VP Ira Rubenstein recently declared. Tie-in games for the Iron Man 2 and Thor movies are in the pipeline, along with unknown fruits of Marvel's ten-year MMO deal with Gazillion.

Marvel's chief spandex rival DC Comics has been owned by Warner Bros. since 1969.

Tucked away within Capcom's recent financial results was a veritable goldmine of information on the company's worldwide software sales across the past 22 years.

The data is chock full of surprising revelations, such as the part where long-forgotten childhood favorite Duck Tales (NES) has outsold Dead Rising (360).

As pointed out by Next-Gen, Resident Evil is the company's best-selling franchise, amassing 34.5 million units in sales across 50 titles. The whopping 128 editions of Mega Man have sold 28 million worldwide.

Within the realm of individual software sales, the Super Nintendo edition of Street Fighter II reigns as the company's best-selling game ever, pushing 6.3 million units. Sadly absent from the million-seller list is Clover Studios' Okami (PS2, Wii).

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