Unlike recent weeks, Nintendo has quite a bit of new content heading to 3DS and Wii U with today's eShop update. One of the most welcome additions is "Super Metroid," which can be picked up via the Wii U Virtual Console for just $0.30 this month. In addition, Wii U owners can get "Super Mario Bros. 2" at 50% off this week when they purchase the Virtual Console version of "Super Mario World." There's A LOT more to see, so keep reading!

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That gross practice of making you enter a code for a new game before you could play online: EA says that they're killing it for all future releases.

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They're really pushing the Slade/Batman conflict pretty hard with the marketing of "Arkham Origins," this October's prequel to Warner Brother's pair of "Arkham" games. Even if the initial announcement out of the publisher was that Black Mask would be the main heavy, one-eyed super assassin Deathstroke has been the one featured most prominently up to this point.

Which is weird, because he's better known for spending his time trying to murder the Teen Titans.

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It's coming this fall to the PC, Wii U, and 3DS, and it's going to let you draw in just about any DC Comics character you can think of.

Probably even this guy.

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"Angry Birds" developer Rovio is stepping into the publishing arena with the Rovio Stars initiative, and today they revealed details on the first two games we'll see under the banner – "Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage" by Nitrome, followed by "Tiny Thief" by 5 Ants.

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Indie developer Coffee Stain Studios today released "Sanctum 2" for PC and Xbox 360. The follow-up to the team's first tower-defense, first-person shooter hybrid sees players taking on the role of an elite soldier whose been tasked with protecting oxygen-producing cores from hordes of alien attackers. Sounds fun, right?

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Not content to fling the "Angry Birds" franchise at the web with the recently-launched animated series, developer Rovio has teamed up with Sony Pictures Entertainment for a feature-length animated film based on the mobile game for July 1, 2016.

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~~Life is like a hurricane/ Here in Duckburg
~~Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes/ It's a duck-blur
~~Might solve a mystery Or rewrite history
~~DuckTales! OOH OOH
--Whoa -- sorry, I got a bit carried away as I've been humming that song for the last few hours after having played a few minutes of the upcoming and HD-ified Capcom classic, "DuckTales." Now titled "DuckTales Remastered" Capcom celebrates their 30th anniversary with one of their most beloved games. Read More...

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For hours -- sometimes days on end -- we’d spend our weekends and sneak in school nights to play video games. It was all for the love of adventure, our constant need to win, and often times we’d fallen in love with the characters we controlled. Yeah, some of them were animals, but that really didn’t matter when it came to matters of the heart.  Even today those video game characters have continued to cause a hormonal overload in us because thanks to evolution, they’ve gotten even better looking. But even when some of them were pixelated guys and gals, they were still hot stuff.
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The new trailer for "Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag" gives us a little bit of the pirate captain's origin story as he rejects his British masters for a life on the high seas, stealing stuff and shooting at the Navy.

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