If you’re wondering why Douglas Wolk’s excellent syllabus for next year’s Batman game went up earlier today, this is why:
There’s been a lot of buzz this week about Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to last year’s Arkham Asylum game that’s being released sometime next year. (A new teaser trailer is floating around; the full trailer is supposed to debut this weekend.) You can’t play it yet, but if you’re looking to bone up on [...]
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, we’ve got a look at the hotly-anticipated Bat-sequel due in 2011. The screens below seem to show off some of the new moves and abilities reported elsewhere, including a flying/gliding mechanic and a double takedown.
Things have been quiet in Gotham. Too quiet.
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
According to Comic Book Resources, Kevin Conroy–the actor who’s voiced Batman in various animated series and last year’s hit Batman: Arkham Asylum game–let slip the identity of one of the Dark Knight’s major arch-nemeses who’ll be showing up in the upcoming Bat-game. During a Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo panel on Conroy’s career, he apparently [...]
Batman: Arkham Asylum was one of my favorite games of last year. It broke a string of really bad Bat-games by boiling down the core elements of Batman into really enjoyable gameplay mechanics and delivering top shelf visuals and vocal performances. The great story by Paul Dini didn’t hurt either.
The post-mortem on the Dark Knight’s hit game continues, as members from the Rocksteady development studio and writer Paul Dini talk about crafting Batman: Arkham Asylum. Read on to find out how they approached storytelling, dealt with fan expectations and writing for the Joker.
Over the decades, the only evil Batman hasn’t been able to vanquish was the dismal awfulness of his own video games. That all changed when Batman: Arkham Asylum–developed by British studio Rocksteady Games–hit consoles and PCs last summer. Gamers finally got to control the hyper-intelligent ass-kicker they’ve been reading about all these years, and not [...]
