NYCC: Capcom Rebalancing Street Fighter X Tekken

Today, during the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary panel here at New York Comic-Con, Capcom's Matt Dahlgren announced a complete rebalance of Street Fighter X Tekken.

Dahlgren explained that the balancing would be similar to the balancing Capcom performed on the Street Fighter IV series. The update will come free of charge and make adjustments both large and small. Dahlgren offered several examples of the upcoming tweaks, including an adjustment to the life gauge coloring to better visualize how much health has been depleted, and a change to the "Fight" text that appears at the start of matches to avoid blocking the characters on screen.

A host of character-specific changes were also discussed and ranged from minute frame changes for attack animations to buffs in specific techniques. Oddly, an improvement to Cammy's Hooligan Combination was greeted with a tremendous burst of cheers and applause from the audience, leading this author to believe that the entire Street Fighter community must love Cammy. Or something.

Dahlgren ended his talk on the rebalance by announcing that the free update will launch in 2013.

Ryan Clements writes for IGN and, honestly, uses Cammy as a default character right after Ryu. He will admit that this selection is based purely on her awesome beret.

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NYCC: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - LEGO Style!

Timed to the start of New York Comic-Con today, LEGO has revealed that they have a brand new license theme coming up in 2013 that, as a company spokesman puts it, "is sure to be nostalgic for grown-up fans while keeping today’s youth at the edge of their seats!" Yes, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael -- the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- are coming to LEGO.

The first set to be revealed is The Shellraiser Street Chase. Check it out below:

This is LEGO's first official presence at New York Comic-Con, and they're making the most of it. Located at Booth #1538, LEGO is unveiling the TMNT line (launching January 2013) as well as the following:

• Two LEGO The Hobbit sets that will be launching in December 2012
• One LEGO Super Heroes: MARVEL set launching in 2013
• One LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe set launching in 2013

The following giveaways will also be held at the con:

• Exclusive LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character: There will be a raffle beginning on Thursday at 4pm, and then on Friday and Saturday at 11am
• Exclusive LEGO The Hobbit minifigure: Takes place Friday and Saturday at 4pm

LEGO promises more reveals throughout the weekend, so check back soon, but I also wanted to share with you the method that was used to disclose the new TMNT license to the press. It all started with a mystery package arriving at the IGN offices the other day, which you can see here:

Hmmm, pizza? Tubular?

By the way, turns out they were right: Not really meant for eating.

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Scalped Artist to Draw Django Unchained Comic

Back at San Diego Comic-Con, Quentin Tarantino crashed a DC Comics panel to announce that he'd be releasing a 6-issue comic book mini-series based on his screenplay for Django Unchained, which might include some scenes that will be left on the cutting room floor for the movie. Not much was known at the time other than "it's coming," but now DC has revealed via AICN that the artist on the project will be R.M. Guera, co-creator of the recently concluded Vertigo crime epic, Scalped.

In addition, Jim Lee will be providing a variant cover to to issue #1, which releases in December.

Joey is IGN's Comics Editor and a comic book creator himself. Follow Joey on Twitter, or find him on IGN. He loves superhero pets so hard.

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