Free Batman DLC next week News

Anything to extend my enjoyment of this excellent game is appreciated, esp when it is free.

I remember a time when all DLC was free...

Is it only for the 360 or is it ps3 aswell?

Wonder what it'll be.

Free DLC is not allowed to have achievements, is it?

According to Kotaku, its happening on PS3 as well.

http://kotaku.com/5354514/new-free-conte...

The kotaku news has it on the ps3 not the xbox 360.

great game followed up by free dlc?

EA, Activision and Capcom, take a good hard look at this.

For sure, this can only mean neon vision and sparkly new bat-underpants.

Nice! Free DLC is always welcome, especially for my own personal Best Game of 2009 (So Far)! :)

Funny how it's often the smaller studios that give out DLC while the companies with all the money say it's unaffordable.

arrival of Robin? god NO.

my guess is being able to play boss fights from the game as challange rooms like Poison Ivy and Bane

How do you get to play as Joker in the PS3 version?

Well its nowhere Free apparently. Just "ree" exclusivly for the 360 for now? lol.Btw the game is damn fun. Might not be the HUGE inovative tittle but is so sweet looking and so perfectly transfered comic hero into a game with constant fun in it that is just too damn great combo to not get into itself. Scarecrow ideas ingame is just awesome. They should make a Scarecrow game now. But the same ppl with same ideas and talent pls :p

How do you get to play as Joker in the PS3 version?

It's a free download from PSN.

@cianchristopher
Good news for you/excellent nerd-out moment for me: in the current Batman-comic Robin (aka Dick Grayson) actually is Batman!

@JahB:
EA has been doing a pretty good on the "great game-free dlc"-front with Burnout Paradise lately. Credit where credit's due and stuff.

Chances are it's just the free content you received if you pre-ordered from Game. I'd be surprised if it's anything else.

Yeah, I could just see it being the scarecrow maps, but that wouldn't bother me, it should be available to everyone anyway.

A Predator challenge map from the Botanical Gardens would be nice.

I'm confused, some companies (Like Bohemoth) moan that they aren't allowed to do free DLC as it's decided by microsoft but Rocksteady can? I'm guessing it'll be nothing spectacular otherwise micro$oft will want the revenue. (But I'd love to be wrong)

@wellzy4eva - Microsoft are greedy bastards... that's why Xbox 360 owners have to pay for the forthcoming Left 4 Dead DLC which is going to be free on the PC. Apparently that was not Valve's intention but it was Microsoft's. Tut.

I'm noticing that it's due almost exactly the same time as the PC versions' release...

My bet is: Something new for the PS3 version and The Joker Challenge rooms for the 360.

I'm confused, some companies (Like Bohemoth) moan that they aren't allowed to do free DLC

@wellzy4eva, the problem I believe is Sony, MS and Nintendo. They own the networks (servers where the files are hosted) and so set costs/value to items etc. So even to put a demo on those systems can cost big money. So Free DLC, well unless the big boys feel its worth it to them they wont allow some companies to upload it... I know its crap, but thats what happens when there its all locked down. This is just my guess, but knowing that they charge companies for demos, I dont think this is too far from the truth.

if my enthusiasm for this hasn't waned by the time the pc version comes out i might pick it up, lesson 1 rocksteady, delaying the pc release looses sales, especially when theres a -18 day crack for it.

vavle said microsoft wouldn't let the update be free because the sheer scale of it, it doesn't fit in with thier value propsition or some other bullshit.

This content has been confirmed by multiple sources for both the XBox360 and the PS3.

Maybe it would be good to update the article accordingly.

Joker for 360 please. And Nightwing, not Robin please.

Joker for 360 will not be happening according to Rocksteady. EVER. It appears to be an exlusivity deal between Sony and DC regarding DC Universe online. I think I read that somewhere, can't remember where though. In any case, don't get your hopes up for Joker on 360, 'cause it isn't happening. Anyway, anything free is welcome in this day and age. I would bet, like some have said, that it's the Scarecrow challenge map. And foreverafternothing, you are right, free DLC isn't allowed to have achievements. Not that I care...

probably just a challenge map..anyways....BRING IT!!!!

A cast list I read for the game way back in the day featured Two-Face and Penguin . I went back to try to find it, but can't which is rather frustrating. May have been a speculation job, based on the Animated Series and scant information prior to the game being released. However, it would be great if it pointed at some DLC possibilities. The mention of the robbery being conducted by Two-Face at the very end of the game adds spice. That said, it's very likely to be 'just' more challenge rooms.

More challenge rooms? Yes please!
I want more takedown maps rather than fighting maps though.

Wow. It amazes me when bigger studios like Bioware take months to turn out dreck like Pinnacle Station, and then charge for it.

Jonathan_Fakenham@ For sure, this can only mean neon vision and sparkly new bat-underpants.

If only we were that lucky, sigh looks like I'm gonna have to go and buy this now!

Noooooo, no Robin, please! Most annoying sidekick ever.

What I'd like to see is an extra in-game mission. Maybe a secret area of Arkham or something like that. A new gadget would be cool, tho I don't know what kind of gadget that would be.

I got tired of challenge rooms pretty quickly, so I hope it's not just more of those.

The way DLC works on Xbox LIVE is companies have to pay for the submissions of DLC to MS, and so there is a cost to the company. To post things on Xbox LIVE costs a lot more than to post things on the internet for general consumers to download. Also there are extra man hours that go on the DLC, whereas something like this DLC (which we are still unaware of what it is) was most likely done side by side with the main game.

The reason some companies do free DLC is they hope it will lead to more people buying the main game as they feel they are able to get extra content for the game for free, thus expanding on their experience, and making it seem better value. So companies sometimes are willing to take that hit on the cost of DLC on Xbox LIVE to get more sales of the game.

Also the game is bank rolled by Eidos (now part of the Square Enix Europe) so to say it is a small studio (Rocksteady) paying for it shows very little knowledge on how the industry works.

But at the same time, i do love me some free DLC on what has turned out to be an outstanding game.

@JahB: reason why EA or Activision don't submit free dlc is mostly in fact that it is not free to them. I is f*king MS policy.

It will probably be another challenge map.
Loved Batman, but it was too easy - started playing it on Saturday morning and had completed it (with all Riddles) by Sunday afternoon. I was expecting it to be more Metroidvania as well - they could have really done some cool stuff with the gadgets gradually opening up more areas. As it was, they seemed to have one or two legitimate uses in the game and after that they were only useful for finding Riddles. And the boss fights - ewwwhttp://www.
Challenge rooms were ok, but I couldn't bring myself to complete them all after already having spent so long doing exactly the same thing in the main game.
I really hope they do a sequel, and this time really Metroidvania the game to the max :-)

I like to see alternative outfits for Batman (like those cool mods for the PC demo) but with the game using pre-rendered FMV for some of the cinematics in the Campaign if it did happen then they'd only be for the Challenge maps otherwise it would look odd. (It was this that alerted me to the fact that Metal Gear Solid 4 on the PS3 used pre-rendered FMV for a few of its cutscenes too, such as the long cinematic of the river assault at the end of Chapter 4 (I think) because Snake appeared as normal in the cutscene but was wearing his younger disguise in game!)

wonder how much flak they took from Micro$oft for the nerve to consider 'free' xbox live content. given their history of such practise (look at valve and l4d).

Well maybe the fact the DLC would be free on PS3 and PC means MS HAVE to make it free, same as if L4D was on PS3 and the update was free on two platforms that would force MS to make it free as well. They ain't stupid they know that they can't get away with charging for DLC which is free on their rivals platform.

1960s costume and option to use Adam West voiceover please.

Anyone thinking that this game could be great fun as a MULTIPLAYER ONLINE game? Imagine some sort of team death match or even one person plays as Batman/Joker etc while the others play as henchmen/guards,Gordon etc? Think the game structure could lend itself to something like this.Patrolling an area looking for The Bat in the shadows could add to some great tense games! Now if that came out a 'REE downloadable content, i'd be a happy man.

And every character in the game has stats on them, I wonder why they would go to all that trouble if you couldn't eventually play as that person somewhere down the line?

Bazqwerty the only problem with mulitplayer is that it would be harder to be batman (unless they stop guards looking up) and as soon as someone has played as Batman they would just quite the game. It is a good idea but they would need to make it so everyone gets a fair turn.

I could see it working if they offered a balanced scoring system, for example, you would get more points for taking out Batman as a simple henchman than Batman would taking you out. As for the looking up bit, the only way we've played the game @ the moment is as Batman,with detective vision, not sure how much u could see up in the dark as a henchman,would be interesting to find out. Prob never happen, but the more I play the single player game,the more I can seriously see a multiplayer game!

I would really doubt there being multiplayer DLC. And if there was just how many of you would be complaining at having to pay for multiplayer?

According to a post on the EU playstation blog the DLC is:

Insane Night 17th Sept

and

Prey In The Darkness 24th Sept