No convention would be complete without its fair share of cosplayers and the 2011 New York Comic Con was no exception.

There were characters ranging from popular superheroes, video game characters, anime heroes, and some sci-fi characters.

There was also a lot of Adventure Time, although the photos I took of those characters didn’t turn out too well.

Here’s a collection of the best cosplay photos I was able to take in between waiting in line for panels, panels and waiting in line for video game demos.

I know, this week Important Importables was going to talk about EasyGameStation, a doujin game maker that’s found fame overseas thanks to Carpe Fulgar deciding to localize two of its games, but Halloween is coming up. Which means people are probably just working out their plans, deciding if they want to go out to a party, or stay in and tend to the trick or treaters.

In either case, costumes are in order and video games can serve as great inspiration for finding one that is iconic, recognizable to other gamers and often very easy to pull together. Since times are tough, here are 10 possible costume ideas that could end up working out really well for you. Most are pretty easy to pull together. You may even already own some of the necessary components. In cases where you don’t, it’d probably cost less than $20 to get everything you’d need together, give or take depending on any liberties you decide to take with the concept….

Last Friday (October 29, 2010, High Voltage Software (Iron Man 2, Conduit, Dora the Explorer) threw an awesome Halloween party for it’s staff and the press in Hoffman Estates Illinois. And we were there.

There was live music, dancing, food, and a free bar all night. The live music was preformed by Mana Kintorso and Warm Ones who both performed very well.

They served hot dogs and veggie wraps to all the guests plus a plenty of soda and alcohol. They also had a lot of candy laying about and free glow sticks for everyone.

Plus High Voltage was awesome enough to give out free games.

Rockstar promised us some free outfits for Red Dead Redemption a while back as a thank you for supporting the game. It has made good on that promise by placing the Hunting and Trading Outfits Pack free on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network in North America. Rockstar expects the European stores to have the update sometime tonight.

t’s no surprise Dead Rising 2 will be getting downloadable content after its release on September 28, 2010. The first bits of downloadable content Capcom and Blue Castle Games will release won’t extend the story like Dead Rising 2: Case Zero and Case West. We’re looking at new costumes for Chuck that cater to Dead Rising 2′s outrageous wardrobe collection.

Shank debuts on the PlayStation Network today (August 24, 2010) for $14.99. XBLA will get the game tomorrow (August 25, 2010). Klei Entertainment has included several unlockable costumes in Shank for us to discover. There are 11 costumes total, but some require specific actions to acquire. Klei has been revealing how to get these costumes through its Twitter account over the past several days. We’ve put together a quick guide showing you what to do to unlock each outfit so you won’t have to go digging through tweets.

Keep keep an eye out for special Star Wars posters throughout Central Plaza for special voucher codes that can unlock exclusive Star Wars -themed furniture for personal spaces. Also check out the PSHome exclusive Podcast of PS Nation and a Space Port Mos Eisley Cantina place straight from the planet of Tatooine complete with the shady barkeep Wuher. Also check out our big fat list of stuff you can buy for your avatar…

Marvel Comics and LittleBigPlanet are joining forces to bring new costumes and level creation tools to the game. There will be 20 downloadable costumes in all. The first set of five costumes will be available on July 7, 2010 for an undisclosed price. New costumes will be revealed every other week until all 20 of them are on PSN.

From the war-torn streets of Nepal, with the resistance fighters are battling Lazarevic’s soldiers in the streets just outside of the apartment, the Uncharted 2: Fortune Hunter’s Apartment space is a definite collector’s item for fans of the Uncharted series for $4.99.

This 15th Century Assassin’s Creed II Personal Space is set in Venice complete with dark shadowy spaces for an assassin to hide in, a gondola docked below ready to take you back to Abstergo Labs below and a spacious room above overlooking the watery streets of Venice below.

There’s also a new ModNation Racers Space, space updates and ye giante liste o’ goodness…

From the company that brought Monty Python’s Knights costumes to PlayStation Home not too long ago, it’s another British invasion from VeeMee with its latest creation, the London Pub Personal Space for $5.99.

Players who pre-ordered MAG through Amazon will receive a code for the SVER Barracks personal space.

Players can purchase a Slurpee from a 7-11 in their area and redeem the reward points found on the cup online at Slurpee Nation to receive a voucher code that allows players to unlock exclusive PS3 and Home rewards or gives access to downloadable wallpapers and themes as well as a special voucher code that unlocks an in-game alternate outfit for Kratos.