At the New York Comic Con, Capcom is showing off their latest additions to the platform.

Capcom has unveiled a series of classic arcade games that will bereleasing on the Virtual Console Arcade.  In their booth at New York Comic Con, the following titles were shown:

These games, several of which were very successful... Read more...

The Eternal Darkness devs are taking a crack at Marvel's mutants.

Silicon Knights is leading development of the upcoming Activision-published X-Men game, X-Men: Destiny, according to IGN.

The game, revealed earlier today, puts you in the shoes of a new mutant recruit in a branching storyline with lots of choice. The style of the gameplay is unknown, but it is likely to an RPG, especially since Silicon Knights was rumored to be working on a Marvel RPG prior to the announcement.

Fans can get their hands on some GoldenEye at Activision's booth.

Activision revealed their New York Comic Con lineup today, which includes GoldenEye 007, Blood Stone, and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.

GoldenEye 007 is also being shown off at Nintendo's booth at New York Comic Con. It is unknown if the DS version, developed by n-Space, will be shown at the event. Additionally, it is unknown if the DS version of Blood Stone, which hasn't been shown off much, will be playable.

Register your games by Friday for a chance to attend.

This Friday, Club Nintendo UK members who have registered one or both of the previously released Professor Layton titles will be sent an invitation to register for an exclusive screening of the animated film, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva.

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Sonic games with a below average Metacritic score will no longer be on sale.

Sega have announced that they have de-listed Sonic titles with average or below average Metacritic scores. From now, such titles will no longer be available to buy new at retail.

"Any Sonic game with an average Metacritic has been de-listed," Sega’s SVP of EMEA Jurgen Post told MCV in an interview. "We have to do this and increase the value of the brand. This will be very important when more big Sonic releases arrive in the future."

The Super Mario All-Stars package will be released in Europe in December.

Yet another 25th Mario Anniversary-related annoucement today, with Super Mario All-Stars (known as Super Mario Collection in Japan) confirmed for European release on December 3, 2010.

The complete package as released in Japan, with Super Mario All-Stars for Wii, a booklet detailing Mario's history, and a soundtrack CD with tracks from 25 years of Mario games is included in the red box set. Pricing remains to be announced.

The redesigned Wii Remote gets a release date in Japan.

Nintendo's official site has revealed the Japanese release date for the Wii Remote Plus (called Wii Remocon Plus in Japan), a re-design of the Wii Remote that comes with the Wii MotionPlus gyroscope already integrated into it. The controller is the same size as the regular controller, and will come in five different colors: white, black, blue, pink and red.

The red Wii will include the Wii Remote Plus and a special pre-loaded game.

In honor of Nintendo's still on-going Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary festivities, the company has announced a special edition Wii.

Called the Wii Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary, the bundle will include a red Wii console and controller. The controller will be the recently revealed Wii Remote Plus. The bundle will also include a red controller jacket and a red Nunchuck.

The latest X-Men title will feature a "branching storyline that features a deep element of choice."

Activision today revealed X-Men: Destiny, the latest video game focused on Marvel's popular mutants.

Players take control of a new mutant recruit, and progress with other X-Men through a "branching storyline that features a deep element of choice and gives players ultimate control of their destiny."

The latest DS Kingdom Hearts title will see a release early next year.

Square Enix recently opened their North American website for Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, the second Kingdom Hearts game to be released for the DS. The official website revealed the release date, and a press release has confirmed that the US launch will be January 11, 2011.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded takes... Read more...

Gaia, a studio formed by a former Atlus employee, might not be in existence anymore.

Cosmic Walker, a space-based game set to be published by Nintendo and developed by Gaia, could be close to being officially canceled. The developer's website is currently empty except for a sentence that translates to "Sorry, this website is now inactive."

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The Epic chief theorizes that the Nintendo 3DS falls below the Unreal Engine minimum specifications.

Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games, said today that he believes that the Nintendo 3DS will not be able to run the Unreal Engine 3, making the handheld system incapable of running games using the popular engine.

Rein stated that unless the 3DS exceeded his suspected specifications, there would... Read more...

Club Nintendo US will have this prize available tomorrow.

The Mario Galaxy and Animal Crossing-themed paper fans previously seen on the Club Nintendo Japan website are coming to Club Nintendo US.

One fan will come to a total of 300 coins, with four designs to choose from. Check the catalog tomorrow to order yours.

These are in fact no longer listed in the Japanese Club Nintendo catalogue, so for now, the US pages are the only place to order one.

Ubisoft's Raving Rabbids will star in a new series of animated shorts.

In partnership with Aardman, Ubisoft is producing a pilot and several episodes of an animated short feature based on the Rabbids characters.

"When the opportunity arose to work with Ubisoft on the Rabbids we leapt at it, we absolutely love the characters and can’t wait to help bring them to a television audience," Miles Bullough, head of broadcast at Aardman, said. The company created the Wallace and Gromit series.

Play the games, get some swag, and meet some producers.

Capcom confirmed their New York Comic Con lineup today, and it will include Ghost Trick and Okamiden for DS, and Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes for Wii.

The company will also be doling out lots of swag. There are Okamiden headbands, silly bands, and limited edition t-shirts. Fans of Sengoku Basara can take place in a march through the show floor by becoming one of the 100 fans who wear a Basara clan t-shirt.

A new Captain America game based on the movie.

Sega announced today that they'll be releasing a game to tie in with the upcoming Captain America film from Paramount Pictures, in conjunction with Next Level Games.

Captain America: Super Soldier will have a script penned by Christos Gage. Set within the same world as the movie, Marvels Sentinel... Read more...

Expects them to be in line with current Nintendo DS prices.

At the recent investors' Q&A, Satoru Iwata mentioned that games for the Nintendo 3DS will be pretty much in line with the current price of Nintendo DS games.

He later went on to comment, "We don't believe that the world is in a state where high priced software will sell well, so we don't believe it will be in a price range too far off from current DS software."

There are new Dragon Quest IX maps and a full roster of past and future releases.

Nintendo is bringing eight games to New York Comic Con, which is taking place this weekend (October 8, 9, and 10) at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City.

Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Wii Party, and Metroid: Other M headline the Wii side of things, in addition to Activision's GoldenEye, which is the lone non-Nintendo-published title available.

One in three homes with Wiis, and more with a DS owner.

Nintendo have announced that based on Chart Track (UK) sales figures, one in three households owns a Nintendo Wii. 8.3 million consoles in total have been sold across the UK. The one in three figure is based on National Statistics figures that show there are around 25 million households in the UK.

Going all out this week with a Virtual Console title, and a DSiWare game you may have heard of.

After last week's rather quiet and inconspicuous downloads, this week brings us a Virtual Console title, and a pair each of WiiWare and DSiWare releases.

On Virtual Console this week, fate conspires to arrange the fourth of the Fatal Fury titles, originally released for Neo Geo in 1995. This was... Read more...