This awesome news comes from Wired:

Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it's struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG in the fashion of Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online.

The "Browncoats," as Firefly's most devoted fans are known, have been campaigning to bring the show back almost since the moment it was canceled in late 2002. Now they'll get their wish, albeit in a new form.

Shiny indeed. Is it wrong that I'm already hoping to be able to play as a Reaver?

Check out Multiverse here. Check out what Firefly Online might be like here.