This is why journalists love conventions. In addition to all the official news releases, there are always a few juicy bits that leak out accidentally. Pictures posted on Marvel.com (since removed) reveal that Thor and Amaterasu (from cult hit Okami) are in the cast of fighters in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. These additions make perfect sense. Thor has a movie coming out in 2011 so Marvel is doing all it can to increase his public profile. Amaterasu continues Capcom’s tradition of representing even its more obscure games in the Marvel vs Capcom series.

Square Enix is taking a chance on digital manga. It’s going to be using its Square Enix Members site to help promote digital manga releases. The North American and French digital manga stores aren’t ready yet though – their virtual doors don’t open until Fall 2010. Square Enix did decided that Comic-Con International is the perfect time to hype up the service and allow people to see what it will be like.

If you’re at Comic-Con International, you’ll get to test it out firsthand. Square Enix’s booth number is 3829, right near Funimation and not too far from Konami. There are machines there where you can sample some of the digital manga Square Enix will be bringing to North America.

If you aren’t at Comic-Con International, don’t feel too left out. You can sample some free digital manga too…

Games walk a tightrope in terms of character development.They need to have enough story to keep players interested but don’t need to bog gamers down with one-hour cut scenes. That’s a great place for comic books to jump in and flesh out story that games don’t have time for. So it is with Dark Horse’s Mass Effect books. At San Diego Comic 2010, Dark Horse will talk a little more about a new series, Mass Effect: Evolution, dealing with one of the RPG’s most mysterious characters, the Illusive Man….

There’s new Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds news fresh from Comic-Con International 2010! Capcom decided it would be a good idea to expand the playable character roster for the event, so there are now four new fighters you can choose from. If you’re not there then you can’t get some quality hands-on time fighting as Chun-Li, Doctor Doom, Trish or Super Skrull, but if you are you can stop by booth 4844 and see how they fight.

Let’s watch the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 trailer heralding their debut…

The San Diego Comic-Con starts July 22, 2010, so if you’re going to be attending you better begin your preparations. Get a good sized tote bag ready for freebies, make sure you have enough money for buying from vendors, have a water bottle you can refill, find your most comfortable gym shoes and get out a notepad and pen for autographs. Like all Comic-Cons, the Comic-Con International 2010 is going to have lots of stars appearing, either to show up and promote movies, attend panels or perhaps even just mill around with the common folk.

You could end up running into…

Sony’s headed to the 2010 Comic-Con International convention, and will be waiting there from July 22-25, 2010 for people to come by and check out all of their latest games. But that isn’t all that’s going on. Sony revealed on the PlayStation Blog exactly what games it is bringing and what kind of Sony-related panels will be held throughout the event…

Threadless tees, the maker of some rather zany t-shirts, announced this Saturday (April 17, 2010) at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) that they will be unleashing a series of eight t-shirts that will actually show an entire comic. This will be the first time a comic book has ever been shown through a series of shirts. Each shirt will show a panel, one on the front and one on the back, and the whole comic will be told through all eight shirts. The eighth shirt will reveal the end, naturally…