Yes! I kid you not! There’s a Buffy MMO in the works, and the Firefly game is delayed. More’s the pity.

In an announcement to press today about the keynote address to this year’s Virtual Worlds Conference in Los Angeles, the folks at Multiverse have announced a trio of new and interesting projects … The third is, apparently, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer massively multiplayer game. Multiverse, if you’ll recall, is also the company that holds the license to develop an MMO based on the Firefly television show, another Joss Whedon fan favorite. While the Firefly title has now apparently been ‘delayed’, it sounds as though the Buffy title is already in development. From the announcement: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A massively multiplayer online game based on the critically-acclaimed Joss Whedon television series. Currently under development at Multiverse, ‘Buffy’ exemplifies a new era of game design, allowing consumers to play it either as a fully immersive 3D environment or as a Flash-based 2D game.”

Update: We’ve got an interview with Multiverse’s Corey Bridges, who explains what that 2D/3D thing is about, and says the Firefly game has actually been worked on in the past. Without me! Wonder of wonders and shock of the ages.