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 »

At the end of Saturday’s Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 panel, Capcom surprisingly had an announcement that wasn’t previously leaked. The next version of the crossover fighting game will have a card combat mode called Heroes & Heralds.

Earlier this month, THQ underwent a restructuring process. The result of the restructuring caused a couple Australian studios to close in addition to layoffs in Phoenix. Sometimes when studios close, projects they were working on cease to exist. It now appears that the Australian arm of THQ was planning on making a game based on The Avengers before it closed.

Capcom loves to milk successful fighting series. Anyone who’s played any Street Fighter game ever knows it. So the whole Comic-Con 2011 announcement of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yes, go ahead and look at your copy of plain, old Marvel vs. Capcom 3 with scorn. Four months from now, it will be sitting in bargain bins, alone, unwanted and passed over for the next big thing.

What’s different about Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3? Well, there are 12 new characters being added to the roster. Only four of the newcomers have been revealed so far…

Time for more Comic-Con news? Time for more Comic-Con news. Activision has become the latest developer and publisher to send out a little note reminding everyone that it’s going to be at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con July 21-24, 2011. Which makes sense, considering it’s trying to hype up Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny, it’s two video games based on Marvel comics.

Activision will of course have a booth…

We’ve told you about the Mad Catz FightStick for Marvel vs. Capcom 3, now sit back and relax while we tell you about what Performance Designed Products has in store. PDP has created some neat controllers based on Tron and Epic Mickey. Today the company announced its Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad for Xbox 360. It will be available from PDP’s website for $39.99 on February 14, 2011.

Don’t you just love when companies announce DLC for a game that hasn’t even been released yet? That’s rhetorical, of course. It doesn’t really matter what we all think. Developers and publishers are still going to work on it and put add-ons out before we’ve even cracked the seal on the game. Capcom is no exception, as it’s already announced Shadow Mode DLC packs for Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds even though the game won’t be released until February 15, 2011…

This week’s comic feature is The Dreaming for $1.99 by Tokyopop. In this series twin sisters Amber and Jeanie Malkin are accepted into the Greenwich Private College, an exclusive Australian boarding school, located in North Sydney. After girls begin disappearing from the school something begins to invade their dreams. Check out the first issue of The Dreaming and follow Amber and Jeanie as they try to solve the mystery of Greenwich Private College.

Nobody likes a quitter right? This is especially true in online gaming. People who quit in online games rob everyone of the pleasure of killing them. If that particular game doesn’t have host migration, everyone gets sent right back to the lobby feeling upset and unsatisfied. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds has something special in store for habitual quitters that is guaranteed to give them a taste of their own medicine.

Siliconera is reporting that Marvel Comics has filed a Secret Wars trademark that would apply to everything from video games to action figures. This is leading to speculation that Marvel might mine the landmark storyline for a new game.