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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is an update to Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds released in November 2011. The game includes all 36 characters from the original game, as well as 12 new playable fighters. Shuma-Gorath and Jill Valentine, the two characters released as downloadable content in March 2011, also return as downloadable fighters.

Six characters from previous Capcom franchises were added as well as Six characters from previous Marvel franchises. Of the 12 new characters added in the reiteration of the game, one is a returning character from Marvel Vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes: Strider Hiryu. The remaining eleven new characters have never been seen in a Marvel Vs. Capcom game but, they have all been apart of previous Marvel and Capcom titles.

Marvel Characters:

Doctor Strange who appeared in Marvel's film Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme

Ghost Rider who appeared in the film Ghost Rider

Nova who appeared in Marvel's Nova #1

Rocket Raccoon from Marvel Preview

Iron Fist who appeared in Marvel Premiere #15

Hawkeye who appeared in Tales of Suspence #57 as well as the recent movie The Avengers (2012)

Capcom Characters:

Firebrand who appeared in Capcom's game Ghosts'n Goblins (series)

Frank West who appeared in Capcom's Dead Rising

Nemesis who appeared in Capcom's game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Phoenix Wright who appeared in Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney

Vergil. who appeared in Devil May Cry

Since the release of Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Capcom has released one further major update to the game. On October 17th 2011, Marvel announced the unveiling of a game new mode called Heroes and Heralds. The new mode allowed players to customize their character by using unlock-able cards that could be unlocked by playing the mode. Each card would give the character being used new abilities, such as: super armor, air dashing, invincibility, unlimited x factor, and many more. The mode was released on December 19th 2011 and was available for free digital download to anyone who owned a copy of Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3.

Professional competition
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 's first and only international representation (due to the release of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3) as a main tournament fighting game at the renowned e-sports event, the Evo Championship Series, was in July 2011, held in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. Professional Japanese Street Fighter player Daigo Umehara announced he would compete in a Marvel vs. Capcom game for the first time and debuted on June 18 at the North California Regionals. However at EVO, Umehara failed to make the top 32 bracket. American Jay "Viscant" Snyder defeated Puerto Rico's Eduardo "PR Balrog" Perez in the Grand Final, utilizing Wesker and Haggar, along with the infamous combination of Phoenix's Dark Phoenix Transformation with X-factor. Six-time Marvel vs. Capcom 2 champion Justin Wong took 3rd place.

An 8 year-old boy named Noah Solis also made headlines in gaming journalism for reaching the top 48 out of the 1,500 entrants.

On July 8th 2012, The Evo Championship Series returned and Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 was a well anticipated event. The 2011 Champion, Jay "Viscant" Snyder was defeated in the top 32 of the tournament. In the winners finals of the tournament, Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez faced off against Carlos "Infrit" Randay. Filipino Champ was a favorite to win the entire tournament, but lost to Infrit in a close match that ended 3-2. Filipino Champ then managed to make his way back to the Grand Finals in the losers bracket, where he had to face off against Infrit once more. Filipino Champ won the first set 3-0, essentially knocking Infrit into the losers bracket, which lead the two into one final, best out of 3 set. Filipino Champ ended up defeating Infrit with a final score of 3-2, winning the entire Ulitmiate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 tournament at Evo 2012.

Seeding points for the Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 tournament (as well as Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition) could be earned during an official tournament series known as "The Road to Evo". The Road to Evo allows "a variety of global scenes [to] have their chance at earning seeds for EVO 2013 and therefore earning more advantageous spots in their respective brackets at the largest fighting game event of the year". The Road to Evo is held in many of the major fighting game tournaments in America such as CEO and UFGT. The Road to Evo has also expanded outside of The United States in 2013 and gives players from Canada, China, Signapore, Brasil, and many more different countries and oppourtunity to earn points for the Evo Championships in 2013