Batman has been one of the most iconic super heroes of all time and has spawned a massive amount of products. Video games are no different as there are countless Batman video games on the market. More recently we were able to get our Batman fill from Warner Bros. Batman: Arkham Asylum which gave us a kind of 3D stealth beat em’ up game.
Well, building on the success of Arkham Asylum, Warner Bros. will be going on to release Batman: Arkham City for just about every major console including the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and even the Wii U. While we haven’t heard of much in terms of official gameplay for the game Warner Bros. has come forth today to show us the game’s official box art which we’ve included for your viewing pleasure above.
Be sure to let us know what you think of the box art and prepare yourself for the game’s release on the above mentioned consoles come this October.
If you were a fan of the first Batman: Arkham Asylum, you’ll be happy to hear that a sequel to the game is currently in the works. What you won’t be happy to hear, however, is what an industry insider has just told CVG.
Apparently, Warner (the guys behind the game) are pushing Arkham Asylum 2′s release date into 2011. The reason for this is apparantly that Warner wants to avoid some heavy hitting titles currently slated for a pre-holiday release.
A bit scared of Halo: Reach, Warner?
Now here’s an idea developers are sure to adopt — It seems that a user by the name of Chesirec_the_cat recently posted on the Batman: Arkham Asylum PC forums, expressing his concern that he could not use Batman’s glide at a part of the game thus leading to his continous death.
Well, it forum moderator Keir replied letting this user know that Eidos put the glitch into the game intentionally so those who pirated the game could not play through the entire thing. He then went on to say, “It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code.”
So, EA are you listening? This seems like the best alternative to DRM as it’s been proven no one likes that, right?
via maxconsole
It seems that the guys over at Joystiq have managed to take the above screen shot of the Batman: Arkham Asylum main menu that reveals something we previously didn’t know. It seems that the game will be getting a free DLC pack sometime next week, as you can see from said screen shot.
Of course, we have absolutely no details regarding the DLC pack but chances are Rocksteady or Warner Bros. will come clean sometime within the next couple of days.
As our friends over at ThatVideoGameBlog have noticed, the Playstation 3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum has left the Xbox 360 version in its dust in terms of pre-order numbers. Currently, the PS3 version claims an Amazon ranking of #176 while the Xbox 360 version sits at #478. But, why? Do PS3 owners really like Batman that much more than Xbox 360?
Probably not, it’s more likely that the boost in pre-orders has to do with the recent findings of The Joker being exclusive to the PS3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum. I don’t know about you guys, but if I had to choose I’d take the version with The Joker over the version without.
Dreams of Joker fans everywhere have come true, you will in fact be able to play as The Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum if you’re a PS3 owner, that is.
News comes to us from a seemingly released-ahead-of-time advertisement in Sony’s Playstation Home service, featured above. As you can see, you’ll be able to run through challenge maps as The Joker which are exclusive to the Playstation 3. If you don’t know, challenge maps are basically side maps which you can run through over and over in an attempt to get the fastest time.
This is all we have to go by at the moment, no release dates or pricing but, as always, we’ll keep you posted.
Read (Kotaku)
