Capcom, masters of the video game cameo appearance, are on pace to outdo itself with Lost Planet 2.

In January 2010, the publisher announced a cameo for the game that, at the time, looked like an early April Fool’s joke: Gears of War‘s Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago.

Now pics from Famitsu reveal a Monster Hunter from that popular franchise and zombie killing photojournalist Frank West from Capcom’s Dead Rising. While Marcus and Dom are 360 exclusive characters, the Monster Hunter will only appear on PlayStation 3.

The wild and wacky collection of characters in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars has added the power of the press. Frank West, the photojournalist at the center of the shopping mall zombie outbreak in Capcom’s Dead Rising, is throwing his Servbot hat into the ring.

Frank showed off his combat skills busting up the zombies of the Willamette Mall, so we know he can handle himself with baseball bats, shopping carts and whatever else is at hand. He joins a Capcom roster including Street Fighter faves Chun Li and Ryu, Viewtiful Joe, who starred in his own self-titled game, and Batsu from fighter Rival Schools. Revealed so far from the Tatsunoko stable of anime characters are luminaries such as Ken The Eagle and Tekkaman, the space knight who battles “for the very future of Earth itself.”

Capcom fighting game fans have been on cloud nine since the company announced Wii-exclusive Tatsunoko vs. Capcom:Ultimate All-Stars would receive a United States release.

There is no better place than the Tokyo Game Show (September 24 through 27, 2009) for Capcom to spoil four new characters including two from the Capcom side and two from the Tatsunoko stable of famous anime shows.

Capcom hit us with a surprising announcement at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo: It’s bringing Tatsunoko vs. Capcom:Ultimate All-Stars to the United States on the Nintendo Wii.

At E3 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom picked up multiple Best Fighting Game awards, including the Game Critics award. The much-awaited game’s coming-out tour continues at Anaheim, CA’s Anime Expo July 2 through 5, 2009.

Attendees will get the first chance to put hyper-powered fists to garishly clad faces by visiting booth Booth 437-439 to deal out a few billion damage points. I’m not kidding, they measure damage in this game in this billions for a real “anime” feel.

E3 2009 is all over now and the games have all been announced. It’s time to look at the best of the best, specifically for the Wii.

There were a ton of games announced at E3 that all look very good, so I limited it to the best ten, which really only makes this a sampling. Games are listed in no particular order.

Capcom’s latest Wii game announcement for North America is the much hyped fighter mash-up Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Nintendo Power got the scoop on the game, and the news has spread like wildfire across the internet. While there were whispers of a possible release overseas, it was considered unlikely due to the obscurity of the Tatsunoko side of the game.

Tatsunoko is an animation company known for making TV series, and is part of Takara Tomy. Some of it’s more recognizable series are Speed Racer, Samurai Pizza Cats, Neon Genesis Evangelion (a collaboration with Gainax), Robotech, Video Girl Ai and Gatchaman. Unfortunately, only a few of the characters from the Tatsunoko side of the game will be familiar faces, as many Tatsunoko series haven’t been introduced to America.

Even more exciting is the possible rumor that Wi-Fi multiplayer could be added in for the North American release…