Last night at a press event Marvel announced a free to play Marvel Universe MMO developed by Secret Identity Studios. The game is being written by award winning Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis. There is no release date set for the game yet, and currently it is only announced for PC with consoles TBD.

Not a lot of details are available yet, but it was revealed that players will be able to play as existing Marvel characters, instead of new characters that players create like in DC’s recently released DCU Online. It was also revealed that the main villain of the game will be Dr. Doom.

Fox has just released the Theatrical Trailer for X-Men: First Class, which comes out on June 3, 2011.

X-MEN FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.

Marvel’s The Avengers started production this week, and Marvel has posted the first production photo from the set. The Avengers is being directed by Joss Whedon and stars Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and Chris Evans as Captain America who all starred in their character’s respective movies.

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IDW Publishing and Nickelodeon announced at WonderCon 2011 that they will be releasing a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic as a continuation of the original comic series. They also announced that they will be releasing remastered collections of classic TMNT comics including the original comics by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

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Green Lantern stars Ryan Reynolds and comes out June 17, 2011.

Marvel has posted the full Captain America: The First Avenger theatrical trailer for that we saw clips of in the teaser Entertainment Tonight released the other day.

Let us know what you think in the comments.

I’m a huge Deadpool fan. Since I’m such a big fan, I (and about 19,000 other people) follow Deadpool’s creator Rob Liefeld on twitter. One thing I’ve noticed during my time following him is that the man isn’t stingy when it comes to using exclamation points.

Last night instead of being subjected to the Oscars, I decided to find out if it was just my imagination, or does Liefled really use too many exclamation points. I wrote a simple script that downloads his tweets and counts the exclamation points. I ignored any retweets and downloaded as many as I could (Twitter limits how many historical tweets you can download). I ended up with 3016 tweets by Rob Liefeld. Time for some results.

Results after the jump
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Marvel.com has posted new movie photos from Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. The Thor photos don’t show much new, but the Captain America photos include Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Tommy Lee Jones as Colonel Chester Phillips, and Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull holding what appears to be a cosmic cube.

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