Marvel, in an unprecedented push for viral campaigning online has posted a second trailer for their hot Civil War story arc going on right now.

The new trailer features the comic shop locator info, Civil War Checklist and will be available through Marvel.com as well as Youtube.com so you can share it with friends, post it on your MySpace page, or simply just watch it over and over. To view the trailer, go to http://www.marvel.com/news/-1.413.

Its unfortunate they chose to say MySpace page instead of the more correct and more general term ‘blog’, but its nice to see a major company actually using the internet in a productive way. Without further ado, the second Civil War trailer from Marvel…

Activision has revealed their official website for the upcoming game for X3, the third movie installment of the X-Men saga. The game features 3 playable characters in the form of Wolverine, Iceman and Nightcrawler. It also supposedly explains Nightcrawler’s absense from the third movie. Check it out.

War is approaching…

Starting tomorrow the Marvel Universe is going to war. Marvel has been kind enough to post a video to bring everyone up to date (without giving much of anything away) and give us a tease of what is to come.

From their site:

Civil War #1 is less than one week away. You will need to decide: whose side are you on? Are you ready? Marvel wants to make sure you have all of the facts and have been exposed to all of the events leading up to this monumental event. Check out this video prequel that catches everyone up on the events of the last two years. Events that have haunted the heroes. Events that have turned the tide of public opinion. Events that have rocked the Marvel Universe to its core, leaving it vulnerable… to war!

While its future in games and movies is still in limbo with no official announcements, Marvel has disclosed some news about the Halo Graphic Novel.

A 16-page, full-color Halo Preview comic will arrive in stores May 31st available for only $.99. A full color Halo poster showcasing the Phil Hale cover of the graphic novel will be in stores 6/28.

Nice!
The 128 page hardcover book will hit comic shops on July 12, 2006.
In other news, Halo 2 matchmaking has been updated.

A press release went out a couple weeks ago, ‘announcing’ pretty much what we already know about this exclusive wave that will be hitting Wal-mart in the first days of the upcoming month. However, an update was sent out to make a clarification about just how many figures are needed to get a full Giant-man. For those unaware, recent waves of Marvel Legends have had individual figures packaged with a piece to a much larger figure. This exclusive wave’s build-a-figure is Giant-man.

I wanted to clarify an oversight on the press release that was sent last week. Please note that you must collect 10 figures to build Giant Man (one of these figures is a variant). The variants in this assortment will not be as hard to come by as other Marvel Legends assortments.

As a reminder, the variants will be Sentry with a full beard (regular is clean shaven) and Age Of Apocalypse Wolverine with a disfigured head. I do not know of any other variants for this wave.

[Source: Superhero Times]