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What better time to announce a graphic novel pre-order item than the opening day of New York Comic Con? SouthPeak has revealed that its partnered with Peter Chung, animation artist best known for his work onAeon FluxandThe Animatrix, to design a 15-paged digitalVelvet Assassingraphic novel. The comic will be available exclusively at GameStop in limited quantities, and will focus on the early years of Violette Summer, the “sexy but she’d kill you with a knife” British spy....

Here we go! The latest confirmed characters forMarvel vs. Capcom 3are none other than Sir Arthur fromGhosts ‘n Goblinsand Nathan “Rad” Spencer fromBionic Commando. I don’t know what the fans have been requesting, but these are two that I have had on my personal wish list for a while now. To be frank, I would have preferred “classic” Spencer over the new look. That said, I think we can all agree that some Spencer is better than none at all....

I am not that familiar withEscape the Museum, but once I saw the words “adventure game,” my interest was immediately piqued. Upon further investigation,Escape the Museumappears to be apopular online gamethat puts you in the role of Susan Anderson as she tries to escape the Natural Museum of History and find her missing daughter after a huge earthquake demolishes half the city. Looking like a combination ofWhere’s WaldoandMyst, players are required to find hidden objects in the museum rubble and use them in creative ways to solve puzzles....

[manasteel88 brings us this 2P Press Start post about a game many of us grew up with:Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers.Check out ourcurrent call for Blogs, and start writing! — JRo] Friendship is something we all take for granted. A good friend will be there for you time and time again. They’ll help you in your endeavors and be with you when it gets rough. Don’t be a bad friend....

By all accounts, Q-Games’ PlayStation Network titlePixelJunk Edenis a videogame. Apparently some sort of puzzle title, it appears to involve physics and … plants. OK, I’ll level with you: I have no idea what the eff this game is about, but I would like to know. Sooner, rather than later, thanks. It looks like we’ll all have the chance next month when Q-Games will release a demo forPixelJunk Edenon PSN prior to the game’s release....

It’s not exactly the easiest task, transforming any literary work into a videogame. It is especially difficult when the game is based on an epic poem or novel without something like a movie to provide assets and support. Honestly, this is reason enough to commend Electronic Arts and Visceral Games for even having the guts to create something,anything, about Dante Alighieri’s epic and monstrousInferno. Part one of the three-partDivine Comedy, the poem has stood for 700 years as the foundation of the modern understanding of the afterlife....

We here at Destructoid have always labored under the impression that Home is at best a joke and at worst a colossal waste of our time and energy. We arewrong, because this brand new promotional video for the PS3’s “walking around” simulator has convinced us all that Home is actually cool, and if you want to be all hot n’ trendy, Home is theonlyplace to be! Bodacious! Sony is making great strides in appealing to the “pretty people with stupid hair” demographic, and I think you’ll agree that after viewing the video, we all want a slice of that delicious Home pie....

Damn it, where’s myLittleBigPlanet? Sony, you guys better have some good news for us next week at GDC 2008. Sadly, there’s no consolation prize this week. There’s only one PS3 demo this week, and it’s forMLB 08 The Show. If baseball is your thing, you’ll want to grab this 1.01 GB download. You’re actually a bit better off as a PSP owner this week, as they haveTwisted Metal: Head On($14....

This week’s episode is a spoiler-free discussion ofHeavy Rain, bookended by some random news and commentary stuff including thePortalsecretzand thecreepy Infinity Ward newsthat broke last night. Rey Gutierrez also shows up at the beginning to pimp out Dtoid video stuff.

Remember how we heard from Nintendo about connectivity between the Wii and the DS? Well, we’re finally getting it in the form ofPokemon Battle Revolution, where players will be able to control their pokemon using their DS, and if they’ve gotPokemon DiamondorPearl, then they will also be able to import their characters intoBattle Revolution. I’m actually glad to see this, since I’m planning on picking upDiamond/Pearl, after being out of the Pokemon loop for so long....

Look, I generally consider myself a fairly caring person. I like to consider myself a person who cares for all the animals in the world… even stupid ants. So it was really weird how at Konami Gamer’s Night they had a game that was pretty much nothing but torturing said stupid ants. That’s right. CalledAnt Nation, for DS and WiiWare, this is a game where the whole goal is to torture and play with a bunch of ants, and in the DS version, defeat alien bugs....

Earlier this week, I got a chance to check out the upcoming downloadable content forBioShockat2K Game’soffices. The DLC doesn’t tie in to the main game whatsoever. Instead, these new sections of Rapture are meant to challenge players and put their skills to the test. I got to preview two of the three new sections forBioShockand you can check out my impressions after the jump. The first section of the DLC content I got to see were the test chambers....

A wise man once told me that one’s worth is measured by one’s vocabulary. Okay, nobody’s ever told me that, but you’d better believe that you will live and die by that maxim when it comes toQuarrel. Quarrel is a quirky take on the “word game” genre: think a mix ofScrabblewith a bit ofRisk,and add in a warm color palette and a whimsical tone for good measure.The objective of the game is standard fare as far as territory acquisition goes — eliminate all players and take control of all the territory on the map....