The Avengers are making their movie debut in 2012 but first they’ll be setting up headquarters on Facebook. Playdom is releasing Avengers Alliance, a social game challenging you to fight alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Your character is an agent for SHIELD, Marvel’s super secret espionage organization.  To play, you collect Marvel heroes including Captain America more »

On the Conan show, MLB 2K12 cover athlete Justin Verlander announced a change in the annual $1 million Perfect Game Challenge. 2K Sports will rate the Top 8 perfect games and those players will face off in a tourney for the $1 million.

UFC on Xbox Live was a service many people had been waiting for with great anticipation. Microsoft had constant promotions for UFC 141 on the Xbox Live dashboard, and even gave away thousands of free viewings to Xbox Live customers. On the day of UFC 141, Microsoft gave away another 5,000 free viewings just to more »

Sword & Sworcery is a great iOS game for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is its amazing soundtrack. Jim Guthrie, the creator Sword & Sworcery‘s soundtrack, is at again with a new album that was released on December 21. It’s called Children of the Clone and you can get from iTunes or more »

Microsoft has continued its rollout of video apps for Xbox Live. Today, nine additional video services made their way to the service including UFC on Xbox Live and VUDU. VUDU is the online subscription-free video service owned by Walmart. It has been available on the PS3 for several months, but that exclusivity is now over.

We are very familiar with the various indie bundles that have been offered over the past several months. These tend to be very successful and include some quality titles from indie game developers. We have something similar today, but with videogame music instead of games. Allow us to introduce you to the Indie Music Bundle. For today only, you can buy digital soundtracks from 10 indie games for a dollar.

Nintendo wants to get attention for its latest, family friendly Wii adventure. What to do, what to do. Oh, perhaps hire the dudes who have created Penny Arcade to make a more-often-than-not mature comic about it! Score!

Actually, I’m not kidding. Nintendo has tapped Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik to create a five page comic for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword that will appear each week over the next few weeks on the official website…

A little over a week ago, sources for Digiday said Microsoft was in talks with Verizon and Comcast to deliver a television service on the Xbox 360. The sources said the Xbox 360 would take the place of a traditional cable box and will allow customers to purchase television services on the fly. A new report from Bloomberg backs up those claims and says announcements could be made sometime next week.

Celebrities are finding Facebook an extremely lucrative virtual frontier for connecting with fans. Jimmy Buffett, the singer whose fans are affectionately referred to as “Parrot Heads,” was creating fictional towns and making millions before Zynga ever existed. The Margaritaville made famous by Buffett’s song is already a chain of themed restaurants and casinos. THQ is now bringing the experience to Facebook and iPad with Margaritaville Online.

LittleBigPlanet 2 received some pretty cool DLC this week. The Toy Story DLC contains everything from costumes to themed levels. Along with those themed levels are a few new music tracks that were designed just for this game. The three tracks were composed by Winifred Phillips who is also known for her musical work on God of War, Spore Hero and SimAnimals. Phillips was kind enough to provide Gamertell with all three of the new music tracks for LBP2’s Toy Story DLC, and we’d like to share our thoughts about them.