Hi, my name is Sean M. I’m a Facebook game addict. Sort of. I don’t play a lot of Facebook games, I tend to pick one game and become dangerously attached to it for no discernible reason. It’s not like the games are even that fun. I just…I just like going to them and achieving the things they put in front of me. I need help.

I was only able to break my ridiculous addiction to Mafia Wars by starting up The Sims Social, which I’ll admit to playing ride now alongside writing up this post.

Well hopefully I’ll be able to give up The Sims Social by playing Avengers Alliance, produced by Marvel comics somehow. Announced on USA Today, it’s a free-to-play strategy game in which you’re a S.H.I.E.L.D. trainee charged with putting together a team to fight evil. A team composed of Marvel superheroes, of course.

So...everybody remembers there's a movie coming out in May, right?

Here’s what USA Today and TQ Jefferson, Marvel VP of games production, had to say:

At the outset of the game, players learn to customize their character with accessories and weapons, and are instructed in battle. “That character will go right into the game and fight alongside Spider-Man or Thor and Black Widow,” Jefferson says. “We want to make the game approachable.” Hard-core fans will revel in the appearance of more than 100 characters. “You don’t need to know 75 years of Marvel continuity to understand what is going on,” Jefferson says, “but if you do, those elements are in there.”

I’m happy to say I never have and never will spend actual money to play or improve these Facebook games. But there are worse ways to kill a few minutes online. There are also much, much better ways.