Well, at least we're branching out from the Batman territory here. It seemed like a lot of the characters in Injustice: Gods Among Us were coming from Bruce Wayne's side of things. Not today.

Hawkgirl and Sinestro has been announced as the next round of reveal of characters for Injustice. Sinestro is the head of the Yellow Lanterns and the nemesis of the Green Lantern, of course. While the Thanagarian princess, Hawkgirl, makes her fifth appearance in a video game.

Hawkgirl seems like a good choice and I'd probably rather have her in it than Hawkman. She really was one of the better characters in the Justice League Unlimited series. Sinestro I can take or leave. He was never one that really popped out for me. But, glad to see these two included in the game, which I can't really wait for after reading the comic prequel.

Demos for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate are available now from the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U and 3DS.

The demo features two quests and 12 different weapon options in a tundra setting, littered with the the titular enemies for hunters to sharpen their weapons on.

The two quests play out in two difficulties: a beginner mode, and one for more experienced players.

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate releases March 19 for the 3DS and Wii U.

Revealed today via blog.bioware.com, the final DLC packs for Mass Effect 3 have been announced (and yes, those random screens from last month were about this).  There are two of them, one singleplayer and one multiplayer.

The singleplayer DLC is called Mass Effect 3: Citadel and will see Commander Shepard halt a plot against himself from unknown forces and will take place on the Citadel, including previously unseen areas like the Council Archives, and the Silver Coast Casino (and yes, there will be gambling).  Squadmates will be drawn from Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 and includes Urdnot Wrex. 

Once completed, you'll be able to hang out with all your old squadmates, rekindle old romances, and trick out your own living quarters on the Citadel.  It comes out on March 5th and will run $14.99/1200 MSP (and 1200 BW points, whatever they are).

The multiplayer DLC, called Mass Effect 3: Reckoning, is free, and will be out on February 26th (the 27th for PS3 in Europe).  It will feature new classes like the Geth Juggernaut, Cabal Vanguard, Talon Mercenary, Alliance Infiltration Unit, and the Krogan Warlord and his powerful Biotic Hammer.

You'll also get seven more weapons, like the Geth Spitfire assault rifle, Venom shotgun, Lancer assault rifle, and new mods like the Geth scanner, and assault rifle omni-blade.

Finally, on February 25th at 9:30am PST/6:30pm CET, Twitch TV will stream Mass Effect 3: Reckoning with Mass Effect devs on hand to show off the new content and answer your questions.

Despite some pretty harsh reaction from the hardcore sectors of comic nerddom, I actually liked last summer's Amazing Spider Man film reboot a lot. I also really enjoyed the tie-in game, even though it borrowed a lot of ideas from the Batman Arkham games. Now that game is coming to Wii U as the Ultimate Edition, which includes all previous DLC on disc and some new Wii U-specific features, like using Peter Parker's handy phone menu right on the GamePad screen. The game will also let you play in off-screen mode, a feature that I hope more Wii U games incorporate going forward.

Amazing Spider Man Ultimate Edition will release March 5th at the budget price of $39.99. [READ MORE]

Mario Mario Mario!  That's all we have been hearing from Nintendo as of late, so just recently they decided to declare this "The Year of Luigi!"  With four games coming this year, all either Starring or including our second favorite plumber its hard not feel proud for our boy in green!  Along with these four, Nintendo in their most recent Nintendo Direct video feed, has told us about more than than twenty games they have in their pipeline!  This may just be the boost to their sorely lacking games library (for the Wii-U) that they needed.  All we can do is wait and see!

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It’s Valentine’s Day... “love” new screens... get it? Oh, nevermind!

Anyways, Capcom has released a new batch of screenshots of both the 3DS and Wii U versions of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate which ships in just over a month (March 19 to be exact). The game, which is an updated version of Monster Hunter Tri, The new version will feature new monsters, enhanced graphics, and the reintroduction of the G rank in the game world.

You can check out the new screens for both platforms below:

The Wii U is now bundled with ZombiU in the ZombiU Deluxe Set.

The set will contain a Wii U, ZombiU –– Ubisoft's survival/horror title –– a booklet with artwork and developer commentary, and a black Wii U Pro controller.

Additionally, those who purchase the set will be entitled to the Wii U Digital Deluxe Promotion. This program allows Wii U owners 10 percent back on every download at the Nintendo eShop.

The ZombiU Deluxe Set launches on Feb. 17.

Maybe "winners" is too strong a word because right now all they've "won" is the right to represent their school on the cover should their school win the NCAA Football 14 cover vote.  

The eight athletes and their respective schools are: Eddie Lacy (Alabama), E.J. Manuel (Florida State), Jarvis Jones (Georgia), Denard Robinson (Michigan), Tyler Eifert (Notre Dame), John Simon (Ohio State), Kenjon Barner (Oregon), Ryan Swope (Texas A&M).

There are now two ways to vote.  You can either "like" the image of the player or vote for your favorite school just like before.  You can do both of those as the NCAA Football Facebook page.  This round of voting will continue until February 18th.

Visit easports.com and easports.com/ncaa-football to learn more [READ MORE]

Activision has announced a new entry in the Skylanders franchise which will be revealed at the 2013 Toy Fair in New York City. Skylanders SWAP Force is headed to pretty much every console and platform that you can imagine later this year and will be shown off at the NYC event next week.

The new entry in the series is being developed by Vicarious Visions rather than Toys for Bob. SWAP Force introduces 16 new characters to the Skylanders world that feature moveable, swappable parts. Parts between the characters can be mixed and matched at your will, creating more than 250 unique combinations and characters. Each of the different parts bring different powers to the table, so players’ imaginations are really the only limitation. Figures from the other games will also be supported as well as 32 “core characters”, which will include new faces and returning favorites.

You can read the full press release about the new title on the next page and check out the first images below. You can expect to hear a lot more about this title when the toy Fair starts next week. [READ MORE]

It was bound to happen, but it has. Someone's got the Wii U gamepad to work on the PC. You can do a bunch of mapping now but the touchscreen and streaming features aren't there yet. The developer says he's working on it and it should be coming in the near future, but you can grab the files from here.

Unlike the Wii controller which is just Bluetooth, the Wii U controller works via Wifi since it needs the bandwidth for things like streaming. So it's not as simple as connecting the controller as there's a server application that needs to run to interact with the controller. It will take a little tinkering such as running XAMPP, but I wouldn't be surprised if the process simplifies even more as future iterations are released.

Check out the video of it in action. Now, if I can only find just the controller itself to purchase to try this out.
 

To be fair, the title is misleading, but the thought of playing either World of Tanks or World of Warplanes on my Xbox 360 sounds like a fantastic idea, but that isn't what's happening here.  Wargaming.net announced that they have acquired Day 1 Studios for the paltry sum of $20 Million USD.  Immediately after acquiring the development studio, the company known for free-to-play MMO titles announced that they are getting into the console business by starting development on an unnamed title.  We would expect it to be similar to the titles that they have done, but there is no telling what is next for Wargaming.net.  Either way, this is a major boost for the company and we expect great things out of this deal. [READ MORE]

This was touched on earlier during last week's Nintendo Direct press conference, but Atlus is putting out the official word as well. Their long running Shin Megami Tensei series, a JRPG franchise that includes the popular Persona spinoff, will be teaming up with Nintendo's niche strategy RPG series Fire Emblem.

This is kind of a big deal because Nintendo hardly ever does crossovers like this, and it emphasizes just how friendly they are with Atlus these days. There aren't any details yet, but this announcement is only good news for the Wii U. Nintendo consoles have been hurting for solid RPGs ever since the N64, and while the GameCube and Wii marginally improved on that, Nintendo's RPG catalog has never rivaled the Playstation's. I'm also curious about how they'll mix the standard turn-based combat and demon training elements from SMT with the grid-based strategy gameplay from Fire Emblem. [READ MORE]

Injustice: Gods Among Us will be here in a couple months and NetherRealm is revealing more of the roster in this new trailer. We get some cool looks at Flash and Wonder Woman, and our first glimpse of Lex Luthor in action. Naturally the villainous mastermind has fashioned himself a high tech battlesuit, so that he can go toe-to-toe with, well, actual gods like Superman and Green Lantern. Although at least part of that thing has to be made of Kryptonite if Lex hopes to put the hurt on old Supes. There's also a brief teaser of the Joker at the end, and I gotta say it's sad that Mark Hamill isn't doing the voice. Kevin Conroy as Batman without Mark Hamill as Joker just seems...wrong somehow.