Batman: Arkham Asylum

Our Top Ten Comic Con 2010 Exclusives, Including KICK-ASS, PREDATOR, TRON, THUNDERCATS, More; Plus, Our Tips on How to Buy Them

by Germain Lussier    Posted: July 5th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

Unless you’re living under a rock, you’re aware that San Diego Comic Con is about two weeks away. The best part about this geek nirvana is no matter what your poison, comics, art, television, video games, movies, etc., there’s something for everyone. One of the specific niches that Comic Con is best known for is limited edition collectibles. Each year, seemingly every booth creates a batch of merchandise that will only ever be sold for those magical four days in San Diego.

The official Comic Con website recently put up the “full” list of exclusives (we say “full” because things will continue to be added to the list) and it’s pretty huge. So we went through and picked out the ten that we feel Collider readers might find most appealing, or could make for the best investment after July 22-25. Hit the jump for the list as well as tips on purchasing them.

Teaser Trailer for BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM 2

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 13th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

Debuting this past August, Batman: Arkham Asylum received massive praise from video game critics (which is surprising since neither the words “Halo” or “Zelda” appear in the title) and sold two million copies in its first three weeks of release.  During Spike TV’s 2009 Video Game Awards, WB debuted a teaser trailer for an untitled sequel and the overall picture is what gamers were hoping on the second go-round: bringing the fight to Gotham City.  It looks like someone has made the dumbest move of all-time and put the Asylum in the middle of the city.  But don’t worry; they have walls and floodlights.  You wonder if Batman looks at this and just says “Fuck it.  You’re on your own, Gotham.”

While the teaser shows criminals causing chaos throughout the streets before showing us a recuperating clown prince of the criminally insane, eagle-eyed viewers saw big hints about the sequel’s potential villains.  For those who assumed that developer Rocksteady would have to be mad to not include The Penguin and Two-Face in the sequel, worry not.  During the teaser, you’ll see a shot of the Iceberg Lounge (The Penguin), quick flashes of defaced recruitment posters where the “I” has been changed to “We” (Two-Face), and the word “SIONIS”, which is a reference to one of Bats’ lesser-known rogues, Black Mask.

Check out the trailer after the jump.  I’ve also included screengrabs of the aforementioned shots so you won’t have to turn on Detective Mode.  (On a related note, can us XBox 360 owners get some DLC-love on the first game?)

Matt Gets Committed to ARKHAM ASYLUM

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 15th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

Who would have thought that “Batman: Arkham Asylum, the latest Batman videogame in series which has fallen notoriously short on its trips to home consoles, would come up as one of the best-reviewed and best-selling games of 2009 when it made its next-gen debut on XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3?  Well, I did.  I watched all the trailers, knew that the story was by Paul Dini, that Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy were coming back as The Joker and Batman, respectively, and that this would be the first adaptation to actually take advantage of Batman’s abilities beyond his fighting skills and the darkness of the character’s attitude which sets him apart from all the other big-name superheroes.

“Batman: Arkham Asylum” is better than every Batman adaptation including “The Dark Knight”.  Hit the jump to find out why before your brain explodes.

E3 2009 Day One – Brandon plays DARK VOID, RESIDENT EVIL: DARKSIDE CHRONICLES, LOST PLANET 2, MURAMASA, BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM, and LEFT 4 DEAD 2

by Brandon Bales    Posted: June 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm

E3 is too much for one man.

Today marks my second-ever year at E3, and let’s just say that this show rocks you.  It rocks you something good.  Even last year’s convention – which everyone told me was ridiculously tame compared to previous years – was overwhelming.  This year’s, which has been heralded as a near ‘return to form,’ is one day gone, and it was bonkers.  There are simply oodles and oodles of content.  So, let’s jump right into what we were able to focus our attention on for more than sixty seconds!

After the jump, you can read what I thought about Dark Void, Resident Evil: Darkside Chrinicles, Lost Plant 2, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Lost Planet 2:

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