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		<title>Finally, a $149 Batman Car Seat with Cup Holders and a Cape</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/finally-a-149-batman-car-seat-with-cup-holders-and-a-cape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a problem every parent – every parent &#8212; has to deal with: Your child loves Batman but hates being stuck in a car seat. What if I told you that for $149, you could eliminate every single challenge associated with parenthood? (Disclosure: I don&#8217;t have kids, but I assume they&#8217;re really easy to raise except for this car seat problem.) The Batman car seat touts a bunch of safety features I don&#8217;t understand&#8230; Harnessed Booster Weight Limit: 22-65 lbs. Booster Car Seat Weight Limit: 30-100 lbs. Extended Use Five-Point Harness Easy to Install LATCH Connectors One Hand Harness Tightener Two-Position Crotch Strap Built In Belt Guides &#8230;followed by a bunch of features I do understand: Two-Position Recline Deep Seat Wraparound Headrest Side Impact Tested High Density EPS Foam Removable and Machine Washable Cover Three-Position Adjustable Headrest Dual Cupholders High Impact Thermoplastic Seat Shell Patent Pending High Position Top Tether System Okay, I admit that I don&#8217;t know what a patent pending high position top tether system is. But in my defense, I was already sold on this item based solely on the two-position recline and the dual cupholders. The wrap-around cape that instantly transforms any toddler into an animal cracker-eating and dual sippy cup-toting superhero is icing on the cake: KidsEmbrace.com The Batman car seat costs $149 and is available at KidsEmbrace.com; no word on an adult version for the living room or den, but this Slanket-style Batman throw blanket with sleeves looks mighty handsome all the same. Batman Toddler Baby Car Seat &#38; Booster [KidsEmbrace.com via Geekologie]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161257&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Batman: Arkham Origins Outed, New Dev Studio Handling</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/09/batman-arkham-origins-outed-new-dev-studio-handling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is turning out to be an intriguing Tuesday after all: a completely new Batman Arkham game in the offing! And no, you won&#8217;t have to wait until 2015 or whenever to play it &#8212; try Oct. 25, 2013. How&#8217;d they keep that under wraps? Who knows, but Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment just announced not one but two new Arkham games: Batman: Arkham Origins, a prequel to Asylum and City for current-gen consoles and PC, and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for 3DS and Vita. No, Rocksteady won&#8217;t be handling &#8212; instead WB Games Montréal has stepped in, which, well, it&#8217;s hard to know what that means, really. It&#8217;s a relatively young WB offshoot formed in 2010 with over 300 employees but not much of a track record at this point (it handled the Wii U port and update of Batman: Arkham City). What about the game itself? According to WB: Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, players will meet many important characters for the first time and forge key relationships. Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, by contrast, is a 2.5-D game developed by Armature Studio (it handled the Vita port of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection). WB says this works as a &#8221;companion game to Batman: Arkham Origins&#8221; in which &#8220;players can continue the storyline of the console version and discover more details of the Dark Knight’s past.&#8221; Game Informer&#8216;s doing its usual strip tease, promoting its forthcoming issue and showing a few non-game art shots. If you haven&#8217;t seen enough of those over the past several decades, you can grab an eyeful here. And<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159858&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reddit Responds to Shootings in a Way Most Media Organizations Can&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/20/reddit-responds-to-shootings-in-a-way-most-media-organizations-cant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday morning, after news broke that a gunman burst into a midnight showing of the Dark Knight Rises and shot and killed at least 12 people, a Redditor named themurderator posted a link to a photo of what he claimed was his blood-stained T-shirt under the title "i am one of the 50 wounded in the aurora theatre shooting."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=140096&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9 Examples of Improbable Superhero Technology</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/19/9-examples-of-improbable-superhero-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman gets by on science, not superpowers. Some superhero gadgets, however, are a little less believable than others.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=139493&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Best (and Worst) Batman Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/17/10-best-and-worst-batman-apps-for-iphone-ipad-and-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Worried About the Joker in &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/26/why-im-worried-about-the-joker-in-batman-arkham-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What you&#8217;re seeing here is the latest trailer for the upcoming Batman game, due out in just a few short weeks. And, to no one&#8217;s surprise, the Dark Knight&#8217;s white-faced archenemy will be in the game, masterfully voiced once more by Mark Hamill. But, the plot points teased in this trailer have me a little worried, because there seem to be hints that The Clown Prince of Crime might wind up being the big bad of Arkham City after all. Very little&#8217;s been revealed about the storyline in the Bat-sequel, but we know that psychiatrist Hugo Strange is one of the masterminds behind the idea of turning half of Gotham City into a laissez-faire super-prison. In an earlier trailer, the B-list Bat-villain also appears to know that Batman is Bruce Wayne. All of this is consistent with Strange&#8217;s portrayal in various comic book storylines and the mad doctor even posed as Batman a few times over the years. (MORE: Mr. Freeze Makes Things Chilly in New &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217; Trailer) So, it&#8217;d make sense for the game to build to a confrontation between Hugo Strange and Batman. But this new Joker clip has the smiling psychopath talking about planning something big. My worry is that Arkham City will culminate in yet another Batman/Joker face-off. Look, I know that Batman vs. Joker is one of the most enduring rivalries in pop culture but we just saw them square off in the first Batman game by Rocksteady Studios. I&#8217;d hate for this year&#8217;s game to go there again. These are just one worried observer&#8217;s concerns, mind you. It could turn out that the Joker&#8217;s schemes are just a big subplot to the game&#8217;s overarching story and that the World&#8217;s Greatest Detective will have a climactic showdown with someone who isn&#8217;t Harley Quinn&#8217;s boyfriend. With all the new villains teased so far in Batman: Arkham City, surely we can expect a fresher final battle, right? MORE: Preview: &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217; Puts the Dark Knight in a Lawless, Urban Landscape<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98266&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Freeze Makes Things Chilly in New &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217; Trailer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/15/mr-freeze-makes-things-chilly-in-new-batman-arkham-city-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;d be pretty hard to disagree that Batman has the best rogues gallery in superhero comics. (But, you can try. That&#8217;s what comment sections are for.) The Dark Knight took down a slew of his nastiest villains in the hit Arkham Asylum a few years back, but lots of fan-favorite felons didn&#8217;t make the cut. However, with a sequel due out in a little more than two months, we&#8217;re getting glimpses at the bad guys who&#8217;ll be making Batman&#8217;s life hell this time around. So far we&#8217;ve seen Two-Face, the Riddler and the Penguin (with a glimpse of undead bruiser Solomon Grundy). Catwoman–in the game as a playable character–sorta counts, but she&#8217;s been known to go both ways. Between hero and villain, that is. That&#8217;s what I was talking about. Were you guys thinking of something else? (MORE: Preview: &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217; Puts the Dark Knight in a Lawless, Urban Landscape) Anyhoo, Mr. Freeze definitely ranks as the most cold-hearted villain that Batman repeatedly faces, but he was only mentioned in passing during Arkham Asylum. The newest trailer for Batman: Arkham City confirms him as an adversary and showcases him as yet another one of the crazed criminals that the Bat will have to confront in the game. The former cryogenics scientist remains tragically obsessed with his frozen wife. Poor guy. On the boss battle front, Freeze seems to have some kind of heat-tracking capabilities, which will make it harder for players to use the stealth that&#8217;s a hallmark of the gameplay in the Arkham titles. Can they pack any more villains into the upcoming Bat-sequel? Guess we&#8217;ll find out when Batman: Arkham City comes out in October. MORE: Cat vs. Bat: Hands-on with &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=93796&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cat vs. Bat: Hands-on with &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/06/cat-vs-bat-hands-on-with-batman-arkham-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hands-on time with this year&#8217;s Bat-game revealed a few things to me. The new criminal ghetto in the sequel&#8217;s Gotham City is big. Very big. You&#8217;ll face off against even more thugs–and more kinds of thugs–in Arkham City. But Batman will have a powered-up set of attacks and gadgets. The combat system features tiers of execution now, so you won&#8217;t have just a cape stun, but you can work up to a super-stun. Likewise, Batman will have disarms that are ramped-up counters. Just about everything gamers loved about 2009&#8242;s Arkham Asylum looks to be getting expanded and most of the new stuff looks to be well-executed, too. (MORE: Riddle Me This, Batman: Just How Dark is &#8216;Arkham City&#8217;?) Hell, just getting to the troublesome Riddler trophies will be a puzzle unto itself. You&#8217;ll need to rough up–but not knock out thugs–marked as informants so you can interrogate them. They&#8217;ll give up a destination for you to grab a Riddler trophy that will itself lead you somewhere else. See, Riddler&#8217;s not just an enigmatic presence in the game. He&#8217;s taken dozens of hostages in Arkham City and each death-trap holds their lives in the balance. Once you get to the locations that the trophies point you to, you&#8217;ll need to dodge, grapple and jump through fiendish death-traps set to countdown timers. But I have to admit, what I&#8217;m seeing so far of the game&#8217;s Catwoman worries me. The femme fatale in this game harkens back to a far vampier, campier version of Selina Kyle&#8217;s larcenous alter ego. That&#8217;s not bad in and of itself, but Catwoman&#8217;s corny one-liners feel tonally off from the grim proceedings that the rest of the game offers. I realize that not everyone can be as terse and no-nonsense as Batman, but Catwoman feels like she&#8217;s going too far in the opposite direction. As a fan of the morally ambiguous but tough take on Catwoman in Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke&#8217;s comics run, I feel like the lipstick-and-cleavage interpretation on display here just comes across as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89163&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DC Comics to Relaunch Entire Line, Including Day-and-Date Digital</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/31/dc-comics-to-relaunch-entire-line-including-day-and-date-digital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been rumored for months, and now it&#8217;s official: As of the beginning of September, DC Comics is relaunching its entire DC Universe line of superhero comic books with new #1 issues. The surprising part: The entire line will also be available digitally on the day of each issue&#8217;s release in comics stores. The reboot begins on August 31, with the final issue of the Flashpoint crossover miniseries and the first issue of a new Justice League series by DC&#8217;s chief creative officer Geoff Johns and co-publisher Jim Lee. By the end of September, there will apparently be 52 new or newly renumbered ongoing DC Universe series, many of them featuring superheroes in costumes newly redesigned by Lee, and all apparently at least partly rebooting their continuity. (The number 52 is significant within the company&#8217;s superhero comics: It&#8217;s the number of parallel universes in which their characters live.) DC and Marvel Comics have both been reticent to release new comics through digital services &#8220;day-and-date&#8221;&#8211;that is, on the same day they&#8217;re released in stores; only a few titles have been available that way thus far, so this is a big step. Most of the DC line&#8217;s August issues seemed like they were wrapping up the ongoing plotlines. One major exception is Batman Inc., one of the company&#8217;s best-selling titles, which will be ten issues into writer Grant Morrison&#8217;s two-year master plan when the line-wide reboot happens. Presumably, one of the new series launching in September will be J.H. Williams III and Amy Reeder&#8217;s long-awaited Batwoman, which has been pushed back repeatedly over the past year. More on TIME.com: Weekly Comics Column: Superhero Comics Reboot (Again) The Comic Book Club: Rocketeer Adventures and Batman: Gates of Gotham Weekly Comics Column: Chester Brown&#8217;s &#8220;Paying For It&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84871&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Rocketeer Adventures and Batman: Gates of Gotham</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/19/the-comic-book-club-rocketeer-adventures-and-batman-gates-of-gotham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: We end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about the first issues of Rocketeer Adventures and Gates of Gotham. DOUGLAS: Rocketeer Adventures #1 is a strange thing to see&#8211;a tribute to a fantastic artist that&#8217;s sort of displaced onto being a tribute to his creation. The original Rocketeer series was much less an interesting story, or about an interesting character, than it was a showcase for the late Dave Stevens to do his stuff, and draw the things he loved to draw: the helmet, the costume, the period settings, Bettie Page. And he was incredible&#8211;I can&#8217;t think of many artists whose influence-to-finished-pages ratio is as high as his. (There are four issues of Rocketeer Adventures planned from IDW, which means twice as many consecutive issues of a Rocketeer series from a single publisher as there have ever been before.) IDW published two different versions of a complete Rocketeer collection a year and a half or so ago; for this series, they&#8217;ve got an all-star lineup of creators doing short Rocketeer stories and pin-ups. Of the three stories in this one, my favorite has to be John Cassaday&#8217;s&#8211;partly because I never realized how much Cassaday&#8217;s line owes to Stevens&#8217; until this made it clear, partly because of its perfect opening scene, an in medias res Betty-in-bondage sequence that&#8217;s exactly the kind of thing Stevens drew at every opportunity and also makes a joke about both his perpetual tardiness and how long it&#8217;s been since we&#8217;ve seen a new Rocketeer story. (More on TIME.com: The Comic Book Club: Moon Knight and Taskmaster) GRAEME: I am so glad that you said that, because the similiarity between Cassaday&#8217;s art and Stevens&#8217; was the first thing that jumped out at me from that story, and it made me wonder whether I was imagining things. It&#8217;s not as if Cassaday is making any massive changes to his style to more closely ape Stevens&#8217;, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83261&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Batman Almost Fought Osama bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/02/how-batman-almost-fought-osama-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2006, Frank Miller&#8211;the cartoonist behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, as well as 300 and Sin City&#8211;announced that he would be writing and drawing a graphic novel for DC Comics called Holy Terror, in which Batman would take on al-Qaeda and face Osama bin Laden. (&#8220;Superman punched out Hitler,&#8221; he said at the time. &#8220;So did Captain America. That&#8217;s one of the things they&#8217;re there for.&#8221;) By November of that year, he claimed he only had &#8220;about 50 pages left to go.&#8221; (More on TIME.com: Bin Laden&#8217;s Low Tech Hideout May Have Been His Undoing) The title Batman: Holy Terror had been floating around for a while&#8211;a riff on Robin&#8217;s exclamations on the old Batman TV show, it had been an early working title for The Dark Knight Returns, and was actually used for a 1991 one-shot by Alan Brennert and Norm Breyfogle. By 2008, though, Miller had switched tacks. When the New York Times profiled him, he noted that Holy War, Batman!&#8211;as the article called it&#8211;had become &#8220;something that was no longer Batman&#8230; I decided it&#8217;s going to be part of a new series that I&#8217;m starting.&#8221; (More on TIME.com: The Man Who Blogged Bin Laden&#8217;s Death By Accident) In early 2010, Miller announced that he was &#8220;94 double-page spreads&#8221; into Holy Terror, but that &#8220;it&#8217;s just not a Batman story anymore. The content got too extreme, and a brand new superhero popped into my head.&#8221; Later in the year, he explained that Batman had been replaced in it by a new character called The Fixer, and that it wouldn&#8217;t be published by DC, but that it &#8220;should be finished within a month&#8221; and come out &#8220;next year, certainly,&#8221; meaning 2011. There&#8217;s been no official word so far on publication of Holy Terror, or indeed on how it might be affected by yesterday&#8217;s news.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=79945&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riddle Me This, Batman: Just How Dark is &#8216;Arkham City&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/16/riddle-me-this-batman-just-how-dark-is-arkham-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, maybe my preview of the upcoming Batman game didn&#8217;t do it for you. Maybe you need to see just how massive and expanded the Dark Knight&#8217;s next adventure will be. Well, this new trailer shows off the new locomotion elements, upgraded combat and, of course, thugs and villains galore. In addition to all of that, Arkham City will also feature the physical presence of the Riddler, too. Before, the crazed questioner was only a disembodied voice in Batman: Arkham Asylum. But, he&#8217;ll be a dangerous flash-and-blood psycho in the sequel. The short sequence shown at GDC two weeks ago hinted that he&#8217;ll be kidnapping hapless citizen inside Gotham&#8217;s super-prison and that players will need to save them in order to get those precious Riddler trophies. These two developments augur well for the next Bat-title. If Batman: Arkham Asylum was the game gamers and comic fans wanted, then Batman: Arkham City looks like it&#8217;s going to be the one they&#8217;ll need. Look for it on October 18th later this year.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=71015&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Night Animals and Batman Inc.</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/10/the-comic-book-club-night-animals-and-batman-inc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=69820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about Brecht Evens&#8217; Night Animals and the third issue of Batman Inc. EVAN: I didn&#8217;t know anything about Night Animals when Douglas suggested it, except that he described it as a not-for-kids take on Where The Wild Things Are. After reading it, it seems serendipitous that it came out during Mardi Gras week. Both the wordless stories are about the depths–literally for the first one–that libido will take a person to, and the mishaps that happen on the road to what we think we want. The book&#8217;s chockablock with visual puns, starting with the subtitle (&#8220;A Diptych about What Rushes through the Bushes&#8221;) and the frontispiece image of a beaver/woman hybrid. DOUGLAS: The only things I&#8217;ve seen by Evens are this and The Wrong Place, the graphic novel that Drawn &#38; Quarterly published a few months ago, but they&#8217;re both fantastic. I love his sense of color and wit, and the way his stories always end up going places where they don&#8217;t look like they&#8217;re going. Since my brain is wired for This Thing Is Like That Other Thing, I kept seeing riffs on Where The Wild Things Are all over the book: the bunny-suit guy in &#8220;Blind Date&#8221; is Max in his wolf suit, the dance with the beasts in &#8220;Bad Friends&#8221; is the Wild Rumpus, the shift back to the bedroom and then the outdoor scene mirrors Max&#8217;s bedroom and the final image of leaves in Sendak&#8217;s book. But, of course, there&#8217;s a lot more going on here too. (Also, I could have sworn the woman&#8217;s pose on the cover&#8211;that link&#8217;s NSFW, by the way&#8211;was from some Sendak thing or other, but now I can&#8217;t figure out what.) (More on TIME.com: Weekly Comics Column: &#8220;The Wrong Place&#8221; and &#8220;Hewligan&#8217;s Haircut&#8221;) EVAN: &#8220;Blind Date&#8221; struck me as the weirder of the two stories, unfolding like a wet dream from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=69820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: &#8216;Batman: Arkham City&#8217; Puts the Dark Knight in a Lawless, Urban Landscape</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/08/preview-batman-arkham-city-puts-the-dark-knight-in-a-lawless-urban-landscape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gamers and comic fans all agreed: Batman: Arkham Asylum was not only the best Batman game ever made; it was the best superhero game ever made. Many of the classic Bat-elements were there in the game&#8217;s detective sequences, hand-to-hand combat and glorious gadgets. Still, one thing was missing: Gotham City itself. The sequel to B:AA aims to rectify that by letting the Dark Knight roam through a sprawling chunk of the city he protects. After the events of the previous game, former asylum warden Quincy Sharpe gets elected mayor, walls off a section of the city and throws Arkham&#8217;s inmates into it. The radical super-prison program is overseen by psychiatrist Hugo Strange and the only rule is don&#8217;t try to escape. But, Strange himself is unhinged and happens to know that Bruce Wayne is Batman. (Do Your Comics-Reading Homework Now for &#8220;Batman: Arkham City&#8221;) The demo opens with Batman talking to Alfred through the cowl&#8217;s headset. The objective at hand is to save Catwoman from Two-Face, the newest of Arkham City&#8217;s residents. The lawless zone&#8217;s in a state of constant conflict and Harvey Dent&#8217;s captured Catwoman so he can kill her in a display of power that will hopefully recruit him some thugs for his personal army. To find out where Harvey&#8217;s holed up, Batman uses version 2.0 of the Cryptographic Sequencer gadget. In the first game, it hacked open electronic locks but, here, it&#8217;s been upgaded to access communication frequencies, which basically lets Batman find quests all over the city. One of those quests was to stop a mugging. The victim was investigative TV reporter Jack Ryder–also known as cackling superhero The Creeper–and bunch of thugs where whaling on him. The thugs were no challenge to Batman but the twist in the combat here was to refrain from knocking out a specific criminal. This miscreant was tagged as one of Riddler&#8217;s informants and, by using the new interrogation option, he reveals the location of a Riddler trophy. Grabbing these collectibles isn&#8217;t as easy as just finding them out in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=69318&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Batman: Arkham City&#8221; Getting Tie-In Comics This May</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/09/batman-arkham-city-getting-tie-in-comics-this-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009&#8242;s acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum game won awards and generally gets regarded as on the best superhero video games ever made. But it was curiously missing a link back to the medium that spawned it. There was an Arkham-centric miniseries that came out during the same year as Rocksteady&#8217;s hit game, but it had nothing to do with it. (More on TIME.com: Do Your Comics-Reading Homework Now for &#8220;Batman: Arkham City&#8221;) DC Comics isn&#8217;t letting such an opportunity slip through their gloved fingers again. Word has come that a new series will start in May. From the press release: Written by Batman: The Animated Series writer Paul Dini (who also penned both Arkham games) and drawn by Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City concept artist Carlos D’anda, BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY picks up one year after the original game, where former Arkham Warden turned newly elected Mayor of Gotham City Quincy Sharp has decided to close down the infamous institution. In its stead, he establishes “Arkham City,” the new maximum security “home” for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds.  Set inside the heavily fortified walls of a sprawling district in the heart of Gotham City, inmates can roam free and do whatever they want as long as they don’t try to escape. To run this urban prison, Sharp has appointed Dr. Hugo Strange, a man who knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Each issue of the miniseries will be available day-and-date digitally worldwide for $2.99 each. These releases will alternate with 8-page digital-first interludes that will expand on the story included in the miniseries. Written by Dini and drawn by a variety of artists, these digital stories will focus on The Dark Knight’s many enemies as they vie for power in this new city within a city. Each eight-page digital-first interlude will be available for .99 cents, releasing in between issues of the miniseries, and will later be included in print in the BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY collected edition. The Arkham City comics will reveal what happens between the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=66263&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Batman: Arkham City&#8221; Screens Show Off New Looks for Villains</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/02/batman-arkham-city-screens-show-off-new-looks-for-villains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gamers everywhere are eagerly anticipating a return to Gotham City when the new Batman game comes out later this year and new screens have surfaced showing off two of the bad guys who&#8217;ll be running wild in Arkham City. The new game will apparently give us a tougher, meaner Harley Quinn, as the Joker&#8217;s main squeeze drops the Gothic Lolita look she sported in Arkham Asylum. And Two-Face–the Bat-nemesis who was only mentioned in passing in 2009&#8242;s hit superhero game–shows up in a patriotic, schizophrenic campaign poster. Check out the slideshow for more screens, including one that may feature the gliding ability Batman will supposedly have in the sequel. Batman: Arkham City comes out later this fall for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=65452&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Batman: The Dark Knight and Hellboy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Batman: The Dark Knight and Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead. DOUGLAS: I suspect Batman: The Dark Knight #1 may be the first comic of its kind in a long time: an in-continuity ongoing series launched specifically for a single writer/artist to do his thing. The last times DC did that might&#8217;ve been John Byrne&#8217;s Superman and George Pérez&#8217;s Wonder Woman. The differences in both cases, though, were that Byrne and Pérez were legitimately top-of-the-heap star attractions&#8211;Finch is popular, but not that popular; that they got to lead the franchise&#8211;Finch is clearly following Grant Morrison&#8217;s prospectus; and that they were capable of meeting a monthly deadline, which Finch obviously isn&#8217;t. The fact that the release date of this first issue was pushed back several times is a dubious sign. (More on TIME.com: The Comic Book Club: Batman &#38; Robin #16 and Strange Tales II #2) I&#8217;ve mentioned it elsewhere, but this really feels like the closest thing DC is publishing right now to an early-&#8217;90s Image comic: it distinctly puts story second to cool over-the-top hyperdetailed visuals of ultra-muscular dudes (and Finch rarely draws his characters&#8217; feet if he can get away with it). Some of them really are cool: that splash image of Batman crouching down in the rain is what Finch gets paid the big bucks for. (Some of them are less so: I would love to see a Batcave scene that involves trophies other than the giant penny, the giant joker and the dinosaur.) But the story is fundamentally really shaky, which I guess is what happens when you turn things over to somebody who&#8217;s never written a comic before. Really, having a character whose name is Dawn Golden&#8211;and whose father&#8217;s name is Aleister, of all things&#8211;is pushing it. I&#8217;m also kind of surprised that this takes its cues from &#8220;Hush&#8221; more than from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=61369&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Teaser Trailer for &#8220;Batman: Arkham City&#8221; Leaks Out</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/12/08/new-teaser-trailer-for-batman-arkham-city-leaks-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re wondering why Douglas Wolk&#8217;s excellent syllabus for next year&#8217;s Batman game went up earlier today, this is why: (More on TIME.com: The Dark Knight Strikes Back! Speaking With the Minds Behind Arkham Asylum) That is indeed a new teaser clip from the upcoming Bat-title and it&#8217;s one that shows the Caped Crusader apparently taking out some kind of tactical squad. I&#8217;m guessing this is a cutscene and not gameplay footage, but Rocksteady&#8217;s put out high-quality graphics work in Arkham Asylum so it may be hard to tell. No sign of the much rumored co-op in the clip, either. It&#8217;s a safe bet that this weekend&#8217;s Video Game Awards show on Spike this weekend will unveil the full clip. (More on TIME.com: The Dark Knight Strikes Back (Part 2)! More With the Minds Behind Arkham Asylum)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=58314&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Your Comics-Reading Homework Now for &#8220;Batman: Arkham City&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/12/08/do-your-comics-reading-homework-now-for-batman-arkham-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of buzz this week about Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to last year&#8217;s Arkham Asylum game that&#8217;s being released sometime next year. (A new teaser trailer is floating around; the full trailer is supposed to debut this weekend.) You can&#8217;t play it yet, but if you&#8217;re looking to bone up on some comics that flesh out the background of Gotham City&#8217;s craziest quarter and its residents, you might want to start with these books. Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories &#8211;It looks like the Joker&#8217;s girlfriend Harley Quinn will play a substantial role in Arkham City. This volume collects her origin, as written by the Arkham City game&#8217;s writer Paul Dini, along with stories (drawn in the style of Batman: The Animated Series) involving some of the other characters in the game, notably Mr. Freeze. (More on Techland: The Dark Knight&#8217;s Return: Arkham Sequel Out in Fall 2011) Batman: Arkham Asylum &#8211;This standalone graphic novel (originally titled Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth) was more of a source for the first game than the sequel, but a) it&#8217;s terrific, and b) it was the first major Batman story written by Grant Morrison, who&#8217;s now the de facto captain of the whole franchise. And its artwork, by Dave McKean, is even creepier and darker than most of the imagery you&#8217;ll see in the games. Batman: Strange Apparitions &#8211;Professor Hugo Strange, apparently a major character in Arkham City, first appeared way back in 1940. His career-defining appearance, though, came in the late-&#8217;70s sequence collected here, by writer Steve Englehart and artist Marshall Rogers, which also features one of the all-time greatest Joker stories, &#8220;The Laughing Fish.&#8221; (For further background on Hugo Strange, have a look at Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy&#8217;s Batman: Prey, collecting a 1990-1991 storyline that established him as a mad psychiatrist rather than just a mad scientist.) (More on Techland: New Art and Screens for Batman: Arkham City) Batman: No Man&#8217;s Land &#8211;This is a five-volume series with ten different writers, rather than<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=58243&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Batwoman, Detective and Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/11/25/the-comic-book-club-batwoman-detective-and-superman-vs-muhammad-ali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about Detective Comics #871, Batwoman #0 and the Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali reprint. GRAEME: Now, more than ever, Batwoman is an artists&#8217; comic. With Greg Rucka out of the picture for the foreseeable future, what&#8217;s left is a solidly-written (by artist J.H. Williams and partner W. Haden Blackman) comic that is nonetheless stunning, based purely on its visuals. Williams&#8217; art continues the style established by his previous Detective work &#8211; and maybe more so by the hardcover collection of the same? &#8211; but takes it further, somehow, and Amy Reeder comes up with pages that look just as good. I might actually prefer Reeder&#8217;s work here, actually &#8211; there&#8217;s something about the crispness in her line (or, more properly, inker Richard Friend&#8217;s line) that really works for me &#8211; but the double-page spread where the two crossover with Batwoman and Kate kicking is just lovely to look at. (More on Techland: J.H. Williams III on Batwoman and More) Storywise, it&#8217;s&#8230; eh. It&#8217;s okay for a preview issue, I guess? I don&#8217;t know, there didn&#8217;t seem to be much there, to be honest, and I was left feeling pretty disappointed from that standpoint. It felt very short, and left me wanting more in the sense of &#8220;Is that IT?&#8221; instead of &#8220;That was so great, I can&#8217;t wait for the next issue!&#8221; EVAN: I was worried about Batwoman #0 from the writing perspective. I&#8217;ve known Haden Blackman mostly as a video game creative during his time at LucasArts. He&#8217;s written comics and prose before, but this is probably the highest stake, highest profile writing he&#8217;s done. The worry comes from watching too many people from outside comics get things wrong, but I think Blackman performs pretty well here. He nails the particular economy of verbiage that comics requires. Lots of newcomers overwrite when they come to sequential writing, but the double<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=56451&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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