I picked up word over at Raph Koster’s blog regarding this “Wired” report that indicates that Multiverse may be imminently announcing that they will be building an official MMO world based on Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” using their toolset. Words cannot describe how excited that makes me. Well they can, but nothing I’d want to post here. =P Now if they can just find the right group of people to make the actual game, giving it the love and attention that this great creative IP deserves. It would be a shame to see this one butchered, but it’s a legitimate risk when dealing with licensed IPs.

Honestly, I haven’t looked at Multiverse previously to know enough about exactly what they’re actually talking about delivering here, but I plan on reading up some more just as soon as their site stops getting Slashdot’d, but clearly the idea of an MMO Firefly in itself has a lot of potential.

UPDATE: Found the Multiverse press release. It’s official! “The ‘verse” has just taken on an entirely new meaning! The cheers of millions can be heard nationwide. =)