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If there's one thing gamers have come to expect from Activision's Spider-Man titles, it's extra costumes. Not just the inherently different playable characters wearing different uniforms in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, but bonus variant costumes pulled straight from the comics...

E3's provided us with a look at plenty of comic book videogames this week, but considering all the buzz around X-Men: First Class, it's a little surprising it took until yesterday to see fresh game footage of Marvel's merry mutants. The newest trailer for Activision and Silicon Knights' upcoming X-Men: Destiny gives players their first full look at all three playable characters...

When unfinished screen captures from X-Men: Destiny leaked back in January, we were a little unsettled by a protagonist who seemed modeled after The Situation. GTL just doesn't seem like an enriching videogame mechanic, you know? Even though Surge might still end up looking a little bro-tastic, there'll be another more basic football player archetype -- a little more Puck from Glee than a Jersey S

The last time we saw what we thought was a playable character from Activision and Silicon Knights' X-Men: Destiny concept art, we were nonplussed by a mutie who bore a striking resemblance to The Situation. New official images, however, have us more hopeful as other playable character Aimi Yoshida makes the scene sporting a look befitting Runaways leader Nico Minoru...

The last time we wrote about X-Men: Destiny, we had news that players could choose from at least one of three new mutant characters and customize their powers before proceeding with the game's story, which is written by X-Men Legacy's Mike Carey and takes place in a world where Professor X is deceased, causing society to rev up its hatred for mutants...

Future X-Men: Destiny players haven't had much more than a few seconds of footage and a DNA-defying tagline to go on over the past few months, but new details culled from the February issue of the Official Xbox Magazine by Stickskills, provide new insights into the kind of adventure would-be mutant warriors may have...