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Yesterday, we were almost giddy over the news that you can now green screen Arrested Development's Tobias Funke (doctor, actor, and the world's first analrapist) into any video through the promotional magic of the new InsertMeAnywhere tool. We were so excited at this development, though, that we actually may have missed one of the other awesome uses for InsertMeAnywhere -- putting the many faces of Tobias Funke to work in video games. Capcom didn't miss a beat, though, and their supercut of Tobias guest-starring in a number of classic Capcom games has officially won Tobias Funke green screens. Well, it's won Round One, anyway.

Ever see DuckTales? The 1987 cartoon or the '89 Nintendo game made by Capcom, doesn't matter which. The show was fun, and as for the game, what's not to like about controlling the pluckiest, richest, and most self-assured duck in the world who bounds about his world on his cane as well as any? Well, it's coming back! Capcom announced Duck Tales Remastered at PAX East, and it's set to launch this summer on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and the Wii U eShop.

In ancient eons past, long lost temples to video games known as "arcades" dotted the landscape, providing video gamers of yore a place in which to gather among like-minded peers, stage competitions to perfect their craft, and pay their tithes to the dark gods they chose to serve, twenty five cents at a time. Every gamer who remembers this Golden Age has a favorite cabinet game that they miss like hell -- one game to rule them all. For a lot of folks, me included, that game is Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, the side-scrolling beat 'em up that perfected the genre. And now, Shadow Over Mystara and it's predecessor, the also excellent Tower of Doom are getting ported to Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network. The king has returned. Let the celebration commence.

Street Fighter celebrated its 25th anniversary back in August of this year, and the SF crew are going to help Mega Man ring in the big two-five the only way they know how, by kicking the snot out of him. On December 17th, the 25th anniversary of Mega Man, Capcom will be releasing Street Fighter X Mega Man, a crossover title that pits Mega Man against classic Street Fighter characters standing in as robot bosses. Before you can shout, "Shut up and take my money!" We have great news. It's free.

Capcom released a new gameplay video of their upcoming action game Remember Me this week at Tokyo Game Show. The video shows how players can design their own combos in a training mode, aptly named the Combo Lab.

Fans of strangeness for its own sake -- and the  peculiar variety of strangeness endemic to Japanese fighting games -- have cause to celebrate; JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is getting an HD remake for Xbox Live and PSN later this month. For those of you who never played the game in its original release -- and there are a lot of you, no doubt, as I'm one of around three dozen people on the planet who seems to recall this game -- imagine trying to play Darkstalkers while having a seizure. Except that when you win the match, there's a manga-style comic book cut scene and then you're playing a side-scrolling spaceship shooter. It gets odd.

Along with releasing a standard Anniversary Collector's Edition, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Street Fighter, Capcom is releasing a classy limited edition Street Fighter chess set.

In all fairness, my knowledge on perfumery comes from this movie, while Epic-Scents has the Bedoukian Research Inc behind it, all 40 years of fragrance development. But the way I see it, they really are going about it the wrong way. If you want to know what Mega Man smells like, you don't ask other people; you play Mega Man.

Well, folks, not only is Capcom letting you run and fire a gun at the same time, they announced today that they will be letting you eat at a real-life Resident Evil themed cafe and grill called the Biohazard Cafe & Grill S.T.A.R.S. That is, of course, if you live in Shibuya, Japan.

As anyone who has been regularly playing video games this console generation is aware, downloadable content -- not stellar games or recognizable franchises -- is at the forefront of what will define this generation when we look back on it. The DLC craze, though it obviously generates money for developers, is getting out of control, and just about every gamer knows it. Capcom, however, either thinks gamers are stupid, or the company needs a dictionary regarding what downloadable content should entail.

Rather than make jokes, I will let the actual news do the comedy for me: Capcom has announced a downloadable game for PC, Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network featuring the Sour Patch Kids, starring Method Man and Creed Bratton of The Office. To reiterate, this is a real game based on the Sour Patch Kids candy, being made by the same people who make Mega Man and Resident Evil, starring a pairing of Method Man and Creed Bratton from The Office. The game is called World Gone Sour.

Capcom is always good for mashing up everyone's favorite Capcom characters into one platform. With the new Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom on the horizon, Capcom may have run out of characters to mash up. They've added lawyer extraordinaire Phoenix Wright as a battler. That's right, the star of everyone's favorite anime-gone-too-far point-and-click menu-based game where lawyers have gravity-defying hair and bright colors burst all around as they scream "Objection!" in points of a trial that would enrage a judge in real life will be fighting Wolverine sometime soon.

The awesome thing is, Capcom didn't just give Phoenix Wright regular old punches and kicks, oh no, they incorporated his lawyering skills into the battle: He presents evidence so hard that it literally does damage to his opponents. As the above video will corroborate, he even performs a super attack in which he presents evidence that finds his opponents guilty. Really. Today is fun.

The above is a screenshot of the U.S. manual for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D on the Nintendo 3DS. The bit at the bottom regarding save files means players cannot delete older save files, and considering the game only has one save slot, it means no one can ever create a completely fresh game, barring some kind of future update which frees up some slots, whether it be officially implemented by Capcom, or unofficially implemented by 3DS hackers. Why in the world would Capcom implement something like this in a game when one can only assume they want to reach the largest possible audience? To curb used game sales, of course!

Almost two years ago, developer Twisted Pixel released a fun game, called 'Splosion Man, over Xbox Live Arcade with an even more fun concept: You are 'Splosion Man, an escaped science experiment who can blow himself up at will, repeatedly, trying to make it out of the comedically-named laboratory, Big Science. A few days ago, Capcom Mobile released MaXplosion, a game featuring the titular Max, who happens to have the ability to repeatedly explode at will, who is trying to escape an evil science laboratory. Yeah, what's going on is pretty much what you think is going on. Head on past the break for comparison videos and some fun tweets from Twisted Pixel employees.

Level-5, venerable video game developer probably best noted for the Professor Layton series and the recent Dragon Quest IX, announced two extremely odd and exciting things for the Nintendo 3DS at their Vision 2010 conference.

First and wildly enough, Level-5 has teamed up with Capcom and announced a Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright crossover game called Professor VS Gyakuten saiban. Check out some prime shaky cam footage after the jump. Secondly and still wildly, the upcoming non-crossover Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle will receive a daily downloadable puzzle for an entire year.