Below the fold, you can grab your first look at two previously announced characters in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Not Fusion. In one of the two teasers, you can watch Green Goblin whizzing around, dropping bombs, and doing something violent with metallic tentacles. In the other, you’ll see Venom doing his usual thing: killing dudes with his tongue.

The events — and possibly relationships — in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 are inspired by Marvel’s “Civil War” story arc. The arc begins when an explosive fight between foes and heroes causes civilian casualties. The government reacts to the accidental massacre by creating the Super Hero Registration Act: a law that forces the gifted and evilly gifted to do something they may or might not want to do. Thus, conflict.

We’ve yet to receive anything proving to us that Vicarious Visions is responsibly handling the narrative, but we’ll stem the complaints for now: the awesomeness of Venom’s tongue has temporarily blinded us.

Green Goblin Teaser:

Venom Teaser:

Via Destructoid

One of the major new features in EA Sports’ Madden NFL 10 is online cooperative play — in fact, it’s new to the Madden franchise as a whole. It’s a pretty big deal; until now, you could only play competitively on the web, and losing to an experienced player by five touchdowns in the second quarter is no fun.

But don’t take it from me. The game’s Lead Designer, Ian Cummings, was gracious enough to talk with me at the EA booth on the E3 show floor. He explained why on the web co-op is so important, and he also discussed numerous other improvements and additions in Madden NFL 10. That includes 32-player online franchise and the much-heralded Pro-Tak animation system, two more firsts for the series.

Hit the jump to check out my interview with Cummings, which was shot and cut by our resident video wizard, Rey Gutierrez. Sadly, he didn’t forget to include the long touchdown run that I gave up to the Eagles’ Brian Westbrook. *sigh* For more on Madden NFL 10, which launches on August 14th, check out my preview from April. (I’ll soon be putting up some hands-on impressions as well.)

Via Destructoid