Attendees at the upcoming Comic-Con International 2010 will have an opportunity to experience two of the summer’s most anticipated video game releases. For the first time since 2006, Nintendo of America will be a featured exhibitor at the annual Comic-Con expo, scheduled to take place July 22-25 at the San Diego Convention Center.

LOS ANGELES -- A hidden gem inside Electronic Arts’ massive E3 booth last week was the downloadable game, DeathSpank. EA and independent developer Hothead Games will release DeathSpank on July 13 for PlayStation Network and July 14 for Xbox LIVE Arcade. 

Square Enix, Inc. will showcase KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep at E3 2010 in Los Angeles June 15-17. The new PSP exclusive will ship to North American retailers on September 7, 2010. KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep brings to life unexplored worlds from everyone’s favorite Disney stories. It’s the latest game in a global franchise that has already topped 14 million units in sales.

While many guys are hooked on porn, it seems a growing number of porn stars – including the actresses – are addicted to videogames. Amber Rayne is a big fan of Square Enix' Final Fantasy VII. She dishes on just how popular World of Warcraft is in the adult film industry and why she doesn't keep her consoles at her house in this exclusive interview with Playboy Cybergirl Jo Garcia.

Fans in North America have made the latest FINAL FANTASY game another hit and one of the big games of 2010. Square Enix announced that FINAL FANTASY XIII has recorded the largest first-week sales in franchise history. Launched on March 9, 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, FINAL FANTASY XIII has sold more than one million units in North America over the first five days. Sony has benefited with over 60% of these sales coming on its PS3 console. Square Enix also announced that FINAL FANTASY XIV is coming to a global audience later this year, serving up a double dose of adventure for North American audiences. Check out exclusive videos from the North American launch party below.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Electronic Arts has signed an agreement with 38 Studios to publish the company’s first videogame, an epic single-player role-playing game codenamed Project Mercury. 38 Studios is the creative enterprise of World Series MVP and avid gamer Curt Schilling. Project Mercury is being developed at Big Huge Games, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 38 Studios, under the leadership of Ken Rolston, former lead designer of the critically acclaimed hits, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The game marks the first entry into the company’s vast universe created by New York Times best-selling fantasy author R. A. Salvatore, with artistic direction by Todd McFarlane, renowned artist and creator of Spawn.

PARIS, France -- David Cage hopes to push the envelope of interactive entertainment with his studio’s latest game, Heavy Rain. Quantic Dream has teamed up with Sony to deliver a film noir experience that changes based on the player’s action with this latest thriller. The studio behind The Indigo Prophecy has taken performance capture to another level with this latest game, which puts players in control of four unique photorealistic characters on a journey through a dark world haunted by a serial killer called The Origami Killer. Cage talks about the new game in this exclusive interview.