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PC version screens, but they're still nice to look at!

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If you're not a DC Comics nerd like me -- for shame -- you might not know that there's a merch line called DC Direct that puts out all sorts of cool collectibles. In celebration of Batman: Arkham City, DC Direct is putting out a line of action figures. Series 1 includes Harley Quinn, Robin and Batma...

#toys Maybe this is a spoiler for the game, I don't know, but DC is releasing three more Batman: Arkham City action figures later this year, and one of them features the game's hero looking a lot more Bruce Wayne than Dark Knight. More »

#batman Bad news for PC gamers, as Warner Bros. and Rocksteady push the non-console version of the eagerly anticipated Batman: Arkham City to an unspecified date in November. Perhaps some sexy screens will help ease the pain? More »

How much do you know about Batman? What's the name of the guy who created him, and in which comic did he first appear? To find out who is knows everything about Batman we put Rocksteady's Dax Ginn up against Paul Dini, Batman comic book writer and the man responsible for the story in Batman: Arkham City...

Batman: Arkham City for PC has been delayed until November, Warner Bros. announced this morning. This will not affect the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, which are still scheduled to burst from the shadows and pummel the rogues of Gotham on October 18.

No reason was given for the delay ... but if your theory has publisher WBIE and Ubisoft conspiring to diminish potential piracy with 11th hour delays, who are we to argue?

Meanwhile, place your bets on the arrival time of that Assassin's Creed: Revelations PC delay.

Sigh, the disease is spreading. Batman: Arkham City on PC, formerly set to be released alongside the consoles, has been pushed back a month. The 360 and PS3 versions of Warner’s game is still coming out on the 21st October, but our version has been given the ambiguous and extremely unhelpful date of “November”. Absolutely no reason is given, so we’ve contacted Warner to find out what’s up.

Meanwhile, four new colourful screenshots don’t exactly make us feel much better about it. They’re below.

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Batman: Arkham City is coming to PC in November, a month or so after it hits consoles at the end of October. More annoying for PC owners is that no specific date has been given, so while Xbox 360 and PS3 owners will be playing it on October 18 and 21 in the US and UK respectively, PC gamers are left pressing F5 to find out when they'll be able to slip into the Dark Knight's codpiece...

That stylish Animated Series Batman skin (complete with the white triangles for eyes) is now officially, and apparently only available as an exclusive from GameStop, according to information on the company's store. Players who have a PowerUp Rewards membership (that card and Game Informer subscription GameStop's employees are always trying to sell you) will get access to the skin, a replica from the classic 1990s Batman: The Animated Series.

Of course, Kevin Conroy, who voices the Bat in the games, started his tenure as the World's Greatest Detective in the series, so putting his voice and this costume together again will be a nice homecoming for fans. There was also a rumor going around that the same skin would be a GAME exclusive overseas, but that company is apparently offering Robin as a playable character, a bonus already revealed for Best Buy in the US. In other words, pick your pre-orders carefully out there, people.

[Thanks, Alan!]

New gadgets and violent criminals are flooding Arkham City; the horror! Hide you kids; hide your -- wait. That's good news. Let your babies run free in the streets and take your wife out to dinner, and celebrate the new information revealed for Batman: Arkham City:

Gadgets

Remote Electrical Charge: A taser beam, the Remote Electrical Charge gun can be used to power machinery, create electrical fields to solve puzzles, and electrocute villains (non-lethally of course, because, well. Batman.)

Freeze Blast: Taking a cue from Mr. Freeze, the Freeze Blast is a projectile that creates ice platforms in water and freezes enemies in their places. Batman can then "break" the frozen villains, which doesn't seem to involve any shattering of internal organs or severed limbs, so it's really more like "pushing villains over while they're really cold." In the video, one Freeze Blast hit up to three villains at the same time, making it useful for rowdy crowds.

Villain

Deadshot: As part of a side-mission, Batman will track Deadshot as he systematically assassinates high-profile people within Arkham City, and then goes after Batman himself. Detective mode will be essential to finding and taking down Deadshot.

More Arkham City footage this morning, which makes me very happy indeed. It’s the reveal of a new villain, and we all know villains are one of the best things about comic book games. The footage comes courtesy of Gametrailers and as well as showing some footage of the game, it has excitable fellow Sefton Hill giving some background on another villain out to cause mischief and mayhem. This time it’s Deadshot, the world’s greatest assassin. That’s right, all those historical wrist-bladed assassins can step aside, because Deadshot has wrist-mounted cannons. BOOM. Take a look.

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The latest bad guy to sign up for a stay in Batman: Arkham City is Deadshot, a DC Comics assassin. The news comes from Game Trailers TV Host Geoff Keighley. Here's a bootleg YouTube clip showing Deadshot and some new gadgets. Here's how Deadshot should've looked.....

#ruhroh Thanks for ruining that, IGN. More »

Riddler's appearance in Batman: Arkham Asylum was little more than a cameo; an aperitif if you will, leading up to the entree that is Edward Nigma's fleshed out role in Batman: Arkham City. Indeed, if you've been following news of the Dark Knight's second adventure under the fastidious eye of develo...

Robin will be a fully-fleshed out character in Batman: Arkham City and not just a re-skin of Batman or Catwoman. Speaking to IGN, Rocksteady's Dax Ginn confirmed that, much like Catwoman, Robin will play like a completely different character compared to his superhero buddies: "We wanted to make sure...

#batman Featuring brand new tracks by artists like Panic! at the Disco and Coheed and Cambria, Batman: Arkham City's music might be the first collector's edition soundtrack I've bothered downloading in years. More »

It's a story we've all heard a million times: you play Game X; you love Game X; you find every single item and do everything you possibly can, yet still you crave more. Tough, there isn't anything left in Game X. You guzzled Game X when you should've sipped Game X, long and slow, savoring every second.

It was our problem with Batman: Arkham Asylum, much as we imagine it was a problem for a lot of you. Rocksteady is looking to fix that in Batman: Arkham City with a "New Game Plus" mode, which ramps up the difficulty and modifies a few things for your second go around Crimeburg. Thugs are meaner, boss fights are tougher and Bats will retain all of his XP and gadgets from the first playthrough.

The difficulty setting for "New Game Plus" isn't customizable -- whether you make it through on normal or hard, the difficulty of "New Game Plus" will be the same. Also, there won't be any counter icons on thugs, but we imagine that won't be a huge deal after you've spent a whole game punching them in the face.

- 12 musical tracks by some current big musical artists
- each song is inspired by Batman in one way or anothe
- due out Oct. 4th

“I write in a very conceptual format with the stories that surround Coheed and Cambria, but Batman has a much larger, defined history and rules that go along with it. My goal was to find universal themes from Batman’s existing history to help give the lyrics legs and dimension so that the song could live within that world.” - Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez

1. Panic! At The Disco - Mercenary
2. Coheed and Cambria - Deranged
3. The Duke Spirit - Creature
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Shadow On The Run
5. Blaqk Audio - Afterdark
6. The Raveonettes - Oh, Stranger
7. ††† (Crosses) - The Years
8. The Damned Things - Trophy Widow
9. Daughtry - Drown In You
10. The Boxer Rebellion - Losing You
11. Serj Tankian - Total Paranoia
12. A Place to Bury Strangers - In The Shadow

If you didn't know, Batman: Arkham City is coming out next month and packing a New Game Plus mode. For noobs, New Game Plus is a mode that opens in games after your beat a game once and carries over pertinent information from your save. Wondering what New Game Plus means for Batman: Arkham City?...

Did you know that the crew at Rocksteady currently hold the Guinness World Record for Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever? They picked it up for the universally-loved Batman: Arkham Asylum, only the second game out of the studio. Not bad for a sophomore effort; it's certainly no wonder tha...

#batman Crack achievement investigators Xbox360Achievements.org are back in action, and they've sleuthed out the 50 Achievement/1000 Gamerscore set for Batman: Arkham City. Included are two achievements speaking to a New Game Plus mode, which will allow a second playthrough with your fully upgraded Batman. Pore over the others, and then see Kirk's impressions from PAX and mine from Comic-Con to see if any of them concern details we haven't seen. (Hint: There are, and not just in the obvious story-chapter achievements.) More »

Holy leakin' 'chievos, Batman! We may have to wait until October 18 for The Dark Knight clean up the mean streets of Gotham in Batman: Arkham City, but you can check out a list of the cloak and cowl's forthcoming accomplishments after the break.

#batman Of all the things that Batman: Arkham Asylum had going for it—and there were a lot of them—my favorite thing was the Riddler challenges. Placed throughout the game, these optional side-challenges ran the gamut from extremely easy to borderline impossible, and provided a welcome incentive to go off the path and explore. More »

The Tim Drake Robin pack for Batman: Arkham City will be available to UK fans who pre-order the game from GAME and gamestation on any platforms...

For Batman, capturing criminals and maintaining safe, clean streets in Gotham is its own reward. For those of us lacking giant inheritances and cavernous basements, the incentive to do good just for the sake of being good isn't really enough. We need something we can hold; something we can point to and say, "I did that, here's my proof."

Achievements! It was just our roundabout way of saying Batman: Arkham City will support Games for Windows Live on PC, according to a Warner Bros. rep speaking to VG 247 today. We assume, just like its predecessor, the game will also be sold through Steam, though there has yet to be a games page created for it. We've contacted Warner Bros. for clarification. Achievements and DRM for Arkham City will be handled by Microsoft's platform.

For Batman, capturing criminals and maintaining safe, clean streets in Gotham is its own reward. For those of us lacking giant inheritances and cavernous basements, the incentive to do good just for the sake of being good isn't really enough. We need something we can hold; something we can point to and say, "I did that, here's my proof."

Achievements! It was just our roundabout way of saying Batman: Arkham City will support Games for Windows Live on PC, according to a Warner Bros. rep speaking to VG 247 today. We assume, just like its predecessor, the game will also be sold through Steam, though there has yet to be a games page created for it. We've contacted Warner Bros. for clarification. Achievements and DRM for Arkham City will be handled by Microsoft's platform.

#batmanarkhamcity Modern Warfare 3 is using Steamworks. That's good news, because Steam is reliable, and Steam is popular. Batman: Arkham City is instead using Microsoft's Games For Windows Live platform. Which is neither of those things. Making this bad (if not unexpected) news. More »

There was some talk over the weekend that Batman: Arkham City would not be using GFWL. That turned out to not be true, according to this article on VG247, who contacted Warner for comment. A Warner rep said: “Arkham City is indeed a G4WL [sic] title.” Did he say [sic] of his own esoteric spelling? I just don’t know.

The game is out on October 18th. I will still be playing it.