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Alien Isolation joins Batman Arkham on Xbox Game Pass tomorrow

Plus: Headlander! Mickey! Walking Dead! Soon.

Microsoft's catalogue of games available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers grows ever stronger this month with the addition of some genuinely top-drawer titles such as Batman Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, as well as Alien Isolation.

Crackdown 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider coming to Xbox Game Pass in February

Plus Batman: Return to Arkham and more.

Microsoft has unveiled the titles set to be made available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers in February, including Crackdown 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and more.

Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady job listings hint at a "highly anticipated AAA" for next gen

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Rocksteady Studios is looking for new staff to help it launch "a highly anticipated upcoming AAA title".

Digital FoundryBatman: Return to Arkham has stealth PS4 Pro support

And it shows us how standard PS4 games could run with access to full Pro power.

Yesterday we talked about Overwatch's PlayStation 4 Pro patch, which only adds superficial improvements. Today, it's the turn of Batman: Return to Arkham - a game that boosts performance but nothing else. It's as if developer Virtuos simply pulled a switch to enable PS4 Pro's additional CPU and GPU power on its base title with little regard as to what would actually happen. The results are predictably variable and rather poor overall, but it may well address unfinished business from our PlayStation 4 Pro review - just what would happen if users had the ability to enable the full resources of the new hardware on existing PS4 titles?

Digital FoundryFace-Off: Batman: Return to Arkham

A dynamic duo of Unreal Engine 4 remasters?

At the very least, the Batman: Return to Arkham remasters are an interesting technical exercise, bringing the newer features of Unreal Engine 4 to two older classics - Arkham Asylum and its sequel Arkham City. Each were originally built on a modified Unreal Engine 3, but developer Virtuos (best known for the Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD remaster) chooses to revamp its character models, overhaul its lighting, and add higher resolution effects across both. The visual changes are often striking - but sadly, glaring issues with performance can't be overlooked.

In the absence of a PC release, the brute force offered by a hardware upgrade can't address the struggling frame-rates. However it does create an interesting setup for a comparison, letting us pit these PlayStation 4 and Xbox One conversions against the original PC code running at max settings. It's worth stating right away that the Nvidia PhysX enhancements on PC remain locked to that platform, and neither console gets the physics-based smoke, particles and debris. But putting this aside, what are the key changes of this remaster?

First up there's the obvious: the character models. Much like Virtuos' work on Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD, the game's vibrant cast of heroes and villains are given facelifts to varying degrees. Such changes may irk those familiar with the original's stylistic direction; in some cases details are simply amplified, in others we get wholesale overhaul. A case in point: the Penguin gets a complete revamp of skin shaders across his face, adding more stubble in the remaster, and generally rearranging all scarring detail on his forehead. Even his monocle is given a crisper glass material, now uncomfortably crammed into his eye socket. It's one of the most striking changes in the game - but better? It's up for debate.

Notes from a Batfan.

With the release of Batman: Return to Arkham bringing Rocksteady's first two Batman games to PS4 and Xbox One, we felt it might be time to take a look back and get a sense of the studio's achievements with these wonderful superhero adventures.

Breaking up with Batman

Rocksteady talks VR and its future away from the Arkhamverse.

Rocksteady Games, creator of the Batman Arkhamverse, is here at EGX to show off Batman VR - a brand new Batman Arkham experience made after the studio said they were definitely done with Batman.

Batman: Return to Arkham out this October

New video offers PS3 / PS4 comparison.

Batman: Return to Arkham, the remaster of Rocksteady's excellent Batman: Arkham Asylum and its open world follow-up Batman: Arkham City, comes out on 21st October 2016, Warner has announced.

Sources: Batman: Return to Arkham now due November

At the earliest.

Warner Bros.' delayed Batman: Return to Arkham is being held back until at least November, multiple sources have told Eurogamer.

Batman: Return to Arkham delayed a month before launch

Round Robin.

Warner Bros. has delayed Batman: Return to Arkham.

It was supposed to come out on 29th July. In a statement published to the Warner Bros. Games forum, the publisher did not offer a revised release date.

Here's the statement:

Asylum, City and every DLC.

Leaked multiple times by retailers and ratings boards, Batman: Return to Arkham is now finally official.

Batman Arkham HD Collection revealed via leak

UPDATE: Batman: Return to Arkham pops up on PEGI.

UPDATE 19th April 2016 9.15am: Batman: Return to Arkham now has a PEGI listing.

Get every Batman: Arkham game on Steam for $10

Offer valid until Wednesday morning.

You can now purchase every Batman: Arkham Game and its DLC on Steam for $9.99 on Bundle Stars.

Batman: Arkham Collection headed to PC, PS3, Xbox 360 next week

Asylum! City! Origins! And all the DLC on PC.

Batman publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has announced the Arkham Collection, a trilogy pack of games for release next week.

Warner says a new Batman Arkham game will be out this year

Could this be the Silver Age Asylum prequel Rocksteady has been working on?

Turns out Warner did have something to say about games in its financial splurge last week. It was news that a new game in the Batman Arkham franchise - the excellent series made by Rocksteady - will be released this year.

Arkham City, Limbo, Vanquish free on PlayStation Plus next month

And Mortal Kombat, Big Sky Infinity, Knytt Underground.

December's PlayStation Plus offerings will include a generous sack of gaming presents in the run up to Christmas.

Digital FoundryFace-Off: Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition on Wii U

The killing joke?

Expectations were rather low as Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition booted up on our US import Wii U. Images like this one that emerged just after the launch suggested a game with fundamental compromises over the existing Xbox 360 release, while frame-rate analysis of the E3 trailer strongly hinted at a sub-par performance level.

The state of the game was a cause for genuine concern once we managed to get hands-on with a pre-release playable version. A post-E3 preview event revealed unfinished code plagued with bugs and texture issues - all of which didn't quite tally with press assets showing a considerably rejigged Wii U version with some image quality enhancements over the existing game.

So it's with a mixture of relief and slight disappointment that we can report that Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition is actually a pretty close match to the Xbox 360 game, from a visual standpoint at least. Those low-res shadowmaps from the now infamous screenshot? They appear to be confined to a pre-rendered video sequence, presumably dumped from the Unreal Engine editor, and are nothing more than an oversight. Existing renders from the Rocksteady work wouldn't be useable owing to the changes in character costumes.

It's Wii U vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3 in this revealing analysis.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City Tri-Format Gameplay Comparison

Wii U up against Xbox 360 and PS3 with some surprisingly variable results.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City PS3 vs. Wii U Comparison Video

Image quality comparisons between the Wii U and PlayStation 3 versions of Rocksteady's classic.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City PC vs. Wii U Comparison Video

DirectX 11 power takes on the more modest efforts of Nintendo's brand new console.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City Xbox 360 vs. Wii U Comparison Video

Costumes aside, there's not much to separate the new Nintendo console from the existing 360 game.

Exhibition auctions off spectacular game art for SpecialEffect charity

Dishonored, Arkham City, Fable, more.

A new art exhibition is today auctioning off game pictures for charity SpecialEffect.

LGF art exhibition images

Batman: Arkham City GOTY Edition delayed until 2nd November in UK

That's nearly six months after US launch.

Batman: Arkham City's Game of the Year Edition will now launch for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 2nd November, Warner Bros. told Eurogamer today.

UK chart: London 2012 Olympics game holds lead

Farah nother week.

Sega's London 2012 Olympics game has now been top of the UK video games chart for three consecutive weeks.

Batman scribe Paul Dini not working on Rocksteady's next title

Writer "unavailable to take on anything new until 2013."

Batman: The Animated Series writer - and creator of Harley Quinn - Paul Dini is not working on Rocksteady's rumoured follow-up to Arkham City, after penning the first two games in the series.

UK chart: Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes top for fifth week

Kingdom Hearts on 3DS arrives in sixth.

Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes has conquered the UK all-format charts for a fifth week running.

Steam Sale Day 6: The Dark Knight Strikes Again

Grand Theft Auto 4, Limbo and Spec: Ops the Line.

Another day, another crazy collection of Steam deals as part of its annual Summer Sale lasting until 22nd July.

Batman: Arkham City follow-up to be next-gen Justice League prequel - report

Will debut 2014 "at the earliest".

Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City developer Rocksteady Studios will next tackle a prequel tale featuring Batman and the DC Universe's Justice League.

Harley Quinn DLC disappears from Games for Windows Live store

Arkham City developer "investigating".

Batman Arkham City expansion Harley Quinn's Revenge is no longer downloadable from the Games for Windows Live Store.

Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn's Revenge Review

Quinn's jubilee.

Not content with reinventing Batman for video games, Rocksteady's also gone and made Robin cool. How did the studio do this? Robin isn't cool. His day job is "ward", which is not exactly a recipe for excitement. Nobody's thrilled when he turns up in a movie and even the mildest of street thugs won't be too upset to see him dropping out of the sky with a quip and a couple of raised fists.

The secret, of course, is typically simple: Rocksteady let him hit people with that collapsible pipe of his, and it stuck him in Arkham City. Up until now, the Boy Wonder - hardly the coolest of nicknames there, Robin - has been left to fend for himself in challenge rooms. But Harley Quinn's Revenge, Arkham City's first story-driven downloadable add-on, sends him out into the metropolis itself.

This two-hour mini-adventure takes place just after the events of the main game, and Robin's finally getting a chance to share some of the limelight with Bats. I'd call the whole thing an epilogue, incidentally, except it doesn't really feel like one: it doesn't tie up any of Arkham City's dangling loose ends and I'm not sure it's dropping too many hints of what's to come, either. Well, maybe one hint. But you'll have to really keep an eye out for it.

Must buy.

VideoBatman: Arkham City Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC trailer

"That's for Mr. J."

VideoBatman Arkham City GOTY Edition trailer

Behind the scenes of the ultimate version.

Final chapter available from 29th May.

Batman Arkham City Game of the Year edition, Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC confirmed for PC

Batman Year One exclusive to US and Canada.

Warner Bros. Interactive has confirmed the Batman Arkham City Game of the Year Edition and the Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC will launch on PC.

The Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC, available from 29th May, will launch on PC, but a release date remains unannounced. More details will be revealed soon, Warner said.

It's a similar story for the PC version of the Game of the Year Edition - its release date is TBC. The PC version of the original Batman: Arkham City launched a month after the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version.

VideoBatman Arkham City: Game of the Year UK trailer

VideoBatman Arkham City: Game of the Year trailer

Batman: Arkham City Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC confirmed

UPDATE: Available 30th May, Game of the Year edition coming.

UPDATE 2: Warner Bros. Interactive UK has revealed new information on the Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition.

It launches in the UK on 7th September for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 - over three months after the US gets it. No mention was made of the PC version.

The Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC adds more than two hours of fresh gameplay to the campaign, Warner said. Also included on the disc are all five previously released DLC packs.

Batman Arkham City: Harley Quinn DLC details leak

Robin, Harley taking centre stage for new add-on.

Batman Arkham City will be expanded in a fresh DLC pack featuring the characters of Harley Quinn and Robin.

PlayStation 3 Trophies for the add-on have leaked online (courtesy of PS3Trophies) and appear to reveal awards for a number of story-based missions.

Trophy details suggest side-kick Robin, who was a pre-order bonus and downloadable character for the main game, is playable in the new expansion.

Chancellor George Osborne confirms UK video games tax credits

UPDATE: UK game developers welcome decision.

Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed the introduction of tax credits for the UK video game industry.

In his Budget 2012 speech, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said tax credits will "support our brilliant video games and animations industries". The Government is yet to announce details of the relief, however, but we do know the plan is to have it begin from April 2013.

UK lobby groups such as Tiga have long called for tax breaks to help boost the industry on these shores. The lack of tax credits have been blamed for an "exodus" of game development talent abroad.

Batman: Arkham City PC patch fixes save corruption

Gotham good news for you.

A patch to fix the annoying Batman: Arkham City PC save-game corruption problem has been released on Steam.

The fix-list:

Occurrences of save file corruption

And the awards could go to...

BAFTA has announced its shortlist for the 2012 British Academy Video Games Awards and Batman: Arkham City and L.A. Noire lead the pack with eight nominations each.

Arkham City developer laments health of UK games industry

Rocksteady boss: "We could be world leaders."

London-based Batman: Arkham City developer Rocksteady Studios has called on the government to step in and help revitalise the flagging UK games industry.

Batman: Arkham City ships 6m copies

Helps Warner to glowing annual financial report.

Batman: Arkham City has now shipped over six million copies worldwide, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has announced.

AIAS 2011 nominees for 'video game Oscars' revealed

Uncharted 3 most nominated.

The AIAS shortlist for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards - i.e. the game Oscars - has been revealed.

The best selling UK video games of 2011

All together, and platform by platform.

Modern Warfare 3 was the best selling video game in the UK last year, UKIE and GfK Chart-Track have revealed.

FeatureDevelopers' Games of 2011

Levine! Molyneux! Jaffe! Garriott!

We've had our say. You've had your say. But what about the people who made the games? What were their favourites of the year just ended? Yes, it's that time of year again, when we pester our favourite creators for their reflections and then watch them show us up with their witty and insightful explanations.

FeatureThe truth behind retailer-exclusive pre-order extras

Why stores do it and what it means for gamers.

One of the less popular trends of 2011 was the ramping up of the retailer-exclusive in-game extra. You know the sort of the thing - pre-order a title from Game and get a couple of extra character skins, choose HMV and get some weapon unlocks, or give your money to Zavvi and get early access to a map.

Depending on where you stand, it's either a nice bit of added value or a nuisance that prevents fans experiencing absolutely everything a game has to offer. Until recently it's been fairly easy to ignore. But things took a left turn with the release of Batman: Arkham City earlier this year, when UK supermarket giant Tesco secured a significant slab of DLC content all for themselves - a separate set of missions called Joker's Carnival Challenge Map. A sign of things to come, perhaps?

With that in mind we approached a number of UK retailers, publishers and developers to find out more about the process, why it happens and whether gamers are doomed to suffer as a result.

VideoBatman: Arkham City Challenge Map Pack trailer

Smack 'em up.

Batman: Arkham City DLC posters

Rocksteady releases Batman: Arkham City Batman Inc. Batsuit skin for free

UPDATE: Out now alongside new DLC.

UPDATE: Warner Bros. has released a raft of new Batman: Arkham City DLC today.

Batman: Arkham World spotted at VGAs

Rocksteady teases new project.

Something going by the name of Batman: Arkham World was teased at this weekend's Spike VGA event in Los Angeles.

Warner plans more quality DC Comics tie-ins following Batman success

Rocksteady "changed people's perceptions".

Warner Bros Interactive's Montreal studio is planning a number of new games based DC Comics IP following the success of Rocksteady's two recent Batman titles.

Batman: Arkham City Triple-Format Comparison Gallery

Digital FoundryPC Tech Comparison: Batman: Arkham City

Issues aside, Rocksteady's superb PC build is a huge improvement over the console versions.

PC versions of cross-platform titles are often characterised as simple ports with only the power of the hardware itself giving any advantage over their console equivalents in terms of higher frame-rates or superior resolutions. Batman: Arkham City on PC is not one of these games. It's enormously improved over the console game, even if the initially broken DirectX 11 rendering mode grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City NVIDIA PhysX Showcase video

GPU driven acceleration effects in action.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City PC DX9 vs. DX11 video

Comparison video showing the two PC rendering set-ups.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City PS3/PC Face-Off video

PlayStation 3 up against DirectX 11 max settings.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City 360/PC Face-Off video

Console against computer in this comparison.

Free Lego Batman to all who download client.

OnLive, the streaming gaming service, is rolling out on tablet devices from today.

PC Batman: Arkham City patch released on Steam

Improves DirectX 11, but not for 32bit Windows users.

A DirectX 11 patch for Batman: Arkham City on PC has been rolled out on Steam.

This has serious negative consequences for gamers running 32bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

If that's you, you are advised to "avoid" running Batman: Arkham City under DirectX 11 after installing this patch.

Batman: Arkham City DLC revealed

All new Batcave! Joker's Carnival! Iceberg Lounge!

New Batman: Arkham City downloadable content launches on 20th December, Rocksteady has announced.

Batman: Arkham City DirectX 11 issues

Rocksteady offers temporary fix: use DX9 instead.

Running the PC version of Batman: Arkahm City in DirectX 11 causes performance issues, Rocksteady has confirmed.

EU PlayStation Store update 23rd November

Daytona! Robin DLC! Rayman Origins for �47.99!

Sega's revival of Dreamcast racer Daytona USA heads up this week's list of downloadable launches on the EU PlayStation Store.

Daytona boasts smoother graphics, a sharper soundtrack and an unwavering 60 frames-per-second, all of which helped Martin wave a 9/10-bearing chequered flag in Eurogamer's Daytona USA review of last month's XBLA version.

PlayStation Plus subscribers are rewarded with a 30 per cent off the price of Daytona and 20 per cent discount off 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which launches as a download this week for �19.99 for everyone else.

VideoBatman: Arkham City Robin gameplay

Delayed PC version out this week.

Batman: Arkham City PC, OnLive, Origin release details

Plus: Robin Bundle Pack out now.

UPDATE: OnLive has just been in touch to say it's offering a free 30 minute Batman: Arkham City demo for US and UK gamers from today ahead of the game's Friday 25th November launch.

ORIGINAL STORY: The PC version of Batman: Arkham City launches in the UK on Friday, 25th November, Warner Bros. has announced.

Then, it goes live in shops and via Steam.

The consequences of not having enough consequences.

"Batman must save Gotham," says everyone's favorite butler/surgeon/IT guy Alfred during the third act of Batman: Arkham City. He's not kidding. If I allow Bats to fail at rescuing even one of serial killer Victor Szasz's hostages it's off to the game-over screen. Retry or quit, there is no fail.

Batman: Arkham City Xbox 360 disappearing save files

Warner calls on gamers to help resolve issue.

Warner Bros. has called on Xbox 360 gamers to help it combat a disappearing save files issue with Batman: Arkham City.

Battlefield 3, Arkham City dominate October US sales

While Xbox 360 tops hardware chart by huge margin.

Battlefield 3 was the top-selling game in the US for the month of October, selling just shy of two million copies, according to the latest NPD sales data.

Batman: Arkham City came in second selling a very healthy 1.5 million units, followed by NBA 2K12 and Rage. According to GameInformer, id Software's shooter sold 550,000 copies in its debut month.

From Software's no-nonsense RPG Dark Souls stormed the chart at six, while Forza 4 debuted in eighth. Sales figures for those titles have not been announced.

Batman: Arkham City PC delayed

By a week.

The PC version of Batman: Arkham City has been delayed, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced.

Fusion: Genesis release date, price

What's on Xbox Live this month?

Fusion: Genesis, the debut game by ex-Rare staffers Starfire Studios, will be released on 9th November via Xbox Live Arcade. The sci-fi twin-stick shooter will cost 800 Microsoft Points (�6.80).

Earlier next week, on 7th November, you'll find Call of Duty subscription service Elite. This costs 4000 MSP (�34) and grants access to a huge list of premium features, including 20 pieces of DLC.

Today, according to Major Nelson, you'll find the Forza 4 November Speed Pack, as well as Batman: Arkham City's Nightwing Bundle. Each costs 560 MSP (�4.76).

Kinect Sports 2 lands 18th.

Battlefield 3 has stormed the UK chart to arrive first in the all-formats listing.

EA announces major third party Origin support

Warner Bros., Capcom and THQ sign up.

Games from Warner Bros. Interactive, THQ and Capcom will soon be available on Origin, EA's digital PC platform.

Warner's Batman: Arkham City and THQ's Saints Row: The Third will kick things off in November, with more titles from the three third parties to follow in coming months.

"Since launch, we've had overwhelming support from both publishers and developers across the gaming industry, recognising Origin as an opportunity to deliver more of their great content straight to consumers across the globe," said EA's Origin VP David DeMartini.

Out on 1st Nov for Xbox Live, 2nd Nov for PSN.

Digital FoundryFace-Off: Batman: Arkham City

Dark Knight in shining armour.

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Xbox 360

PlayStation 3

Batman: Arkham City's worldwide sales

Ships 4.6 million units in a week.

Batman: Arkham City has shipped more than 4.6 million units worldwide in one week, Warner Bros. has announced.

The "week one sales figure" (shipped, surely?) is apparently double that of previous game, Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Batman: Arkham City was released for PS3 and Xbox 360 on 18th October in the US, and 21st October in Europe.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City PS3/360 Face-Off video

The Dark Knight's latest Unreal adventure.

Digital FoundryBatman: Arkham City performance analysis video

Xbox 360 enjoys a small performance advantage overall.

Engine performance tested in like-for-like scenes.

Batman: Arkham City 720p comparison gallery

Unreal Engine's latest cross-platform workout.

Batman: Arkham City iOS map app released

Track down collectibles on your iPhone.

An official Batman: Arkham City map app has hit the App Store.

UK Top 40: Arkham City soars into first place

Ratchet lands 24th, Dance Central 2 is 40th.

Batman: Arkham City has glided to the top spot in this week's UK all-formats chart.

Digital FoundryHDMI 1.4 stereo 3D arrives on Xbox 360

Arkham City is first full-res Xbox 360 3D release.

A while back, Eurogamer ran a report revealing that full-resolution stereoscopic 3D using the HDMI 1.4 standard was coming to the Xbox 360. Five months on, Batman: Arkham City is the first shipping game to utilise it.

Arkham City PC system requirements

RAM! ROM!! CPU!!!

The system requirements for the PC version of Batman: Arkham City are in the wild.

New Batman: Arkham City PC screens

FeatureGame of the Week: Batman: Arkham City

Panel beating.

This week, gaming's famous characters - you know, Lara Croft, Mario, that chick who died in Final Fantasy and Soldier Pointing a Gun - make way for two of the 20th century's greatest literary heroes on our screens.

Gamers report Batman DLC corruption

Rocksteady investigating.

Rocksteady is investigating an issue that renders Batman: Arkham City, out in the UK today, unplayable.

Arkham City DLC launch mishap

Some boxes missing Catwoman content.

Some copies of Batman: Arkham City are shipping without the promised code to redeem the game's Catwoman DLC.

Gamers in North America have been complaining about missing codes since the game launched there earlier this week. However, it now seems the issue is affecting UK customers too.

Earlier today, a VideoGamer employee Tweeted that his copy, purchased through GameStop UK, was missing the DLC code.

FeatureBatman: Arkham City talkthrough

Penguin classic.

Batman: Arkham City UK price roundup

All the deals.

Where is the cheapest place to buy Batman: Arkham City?

VideoArkham City NVIDIA GeForce footage

Make the Bat look even better.

More Batman: Arkham City screens

A gallery of rogues.

Batman: Arkham City PC release date

One month to go.

The PC version of Batman: Arkham City will be released one month from now, on 18th November 2011.

Warner Bros. confirmed the date via a press release today.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Batman: Arkham City will be available this Friday.

Catwoman VIP Pass Achievements

For first-hand Batman buyers.

Batman: Arkham City's Catwoman missions, only playable with the game's VIP Pass, have a separate set of Achievements.

Out This Week - 21/10/11

Batman: Arkham City! Tintin! Ratchet!

This week two very different pencil-drawn heroes of the comic book world each star in their own video games.

Batman Sinestro Corps skin UK details

Comes with Green Lantern Blu-ray.

The Green Lantern Blu-ray - released in the UK today - contains a Sinestro Corps skin download code for Batman: Arkham City - out on Friday.

A representative for Warner confirmed the download code's inclusion in the UK version of Green Lantern's Blu-ray editions following news of its appearance in the US.

"The skin will give users the ability to fight crime with the help of the yellow power of fear, giving Batman a unique yellow costume in the story campaign and in the challenge maps," Warner said.

VideoBatman: Arkham City launch trailer

Time to Dent your wallet.

Batman: Arkham City

Where does he get those wonderful toys?

It's a role-playing game, when you get down to it. Not just because you gain XP, engage in a little light levelling and are free to sharpen your combat skills one upgrade at a time. It's a role-playing game in the most literal sense of the phrase, a game in which you're encouraged to give in to the fantasy, and to see what life is like when it's composed of rooftop brawls and zip-line getaways. Animations, traversal mechanics, takedowns: they're all building towards the same thing. In Arkham City, you become Batman.

And it's an easy role to play, partly because Arkham Asylum already laid out such an excellent framework, delivering not just the power of the Dark Knight but also his cunning and his tightly controlled rage. And partly because, if you're like me, you've secretly been Batman since primary school anyway.

Pretending a series of bedrooms and attics were subterranean strongholds. Daydreaming of dangling cyclists over the ledges of skyscrapers when they rode their freakin' bikes on the sidewalk. Promising to avenge your parents' deaths, even though they were still alive and well and sat in the next room, arguing about why the Morris Minor wouldn't start that morning.

More Batman than you.

Batman online pass unlocks Catwoman

UPDATE: Warner confirms, reveals cost.

UPDATE: Warner Bros. has confirmed to Eurogamer that the Batman: Arkham City VIP pass unlocks playable Catwoman content.

Batman: Arkham City Nightwing artwork

Batman Nightwing release, price revealed

Plus: Robin Bundle Pack release date, price.

Warner Bros has announced the Nightwing Bundle Pack for Batman: Arkham City.

VideoRobin fights in Batman: Arkham City

O'Donnell to your hats.

FeatureBatman Returns

Game director Sefton Hill on design, review scores and getting some sunshine.

Batman: Arkham City is finished, and a tired Rocksteady Studios can emerge from its development bunker and catch some rays. Launch is imminent, and the team is excitedly awaiting your reaction to what is expected to be one of the biggest games of the year.

New Batman: Arkham City villain revealed

HOLY SPOILERS BATMAN!

A new villain for Batman: Arkham City has been revealed.

Rocksteady: PC Batman "worth the wait"

"You'll see a more richly realised world."

Rocksteady has promised gamers that the recently-delayed PC version of upcoming action game Batman: Arkham City will be worth the wait.

FeatureEG Expo Game of the Show: The Nominees

10 contenders from the Earls Court show floor.

Eurogamer is delighted to announce the 10 nominees for its Game of the Show, Eurogamer Expo 2011.

VideoFresh Batman: Arkham City footage

Joker gets lippy.

PC Batman: Arkham City delayed

No Joker.

The PC version of Batman: Arkham City has been delayed to November.

Batman: Arkham City PC screens

DRM-atic new images.

Batman: Arkham City adds Deadshot

Rocksteady's Rogues gallery grows.

Batman: Arkham City will feature DC Comics assassin Deadshot.

VideoThe EGTV Show: Finishing Batman: Arkham City

Deadline day at Rocksteady.

Batman: Arkham City The Album revealed

Panic! Coheed! Motorcycle! Serj!

Warner Bros. has announced Batman: Arkham City - The Album, an 11-track medley of dark and brooding tunes to fuel gamers' excitement for November's Arkham Asylum sequel.

Arkham City's New Game Plus detailed

Rocksteady's sequel gets extra mode.

Unlike its predecessor, Batman: Arkham City features a New Game Plus mode, developer Rocksteady Studios has confirmed.

FeatureBatman: Arkham City

Knight vision.

I'm playing Batman: Arkham City on a cinema screen. It's just me, in the middle row of the Warner Bros. private screening room in London, with Dax Ginn, Rocksteady's effervescent Aussie marketing man. I've had worse afternoons, it has to be said.

Batman: Arkham City achievements list

Robin yourself of the surprise.

Want to nab all of Batman: Arkham City's achievements/trophies? You'll have to play through the game at least twice.

UK gets Batman: Arkham City Robin DLC

With Game and Gamestation pre-orders.

Batman Arkham City's Robin DLC will be available to UK gamers through pre-orders at Game and Gamestation.

Warner: Batman AC IS a GFWL title

Holy make your mind up Batman.

Batman: Arkham City is a Games for Windows Live title, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has confirmed to Eurogamer.

Batman: Arkham City not GFWL

Holy download Batman!

Batman: Arkham City is not a Games for Windows Live title, according to online shop Green Man Gaming.

Batman Arkham City Joker exclusive

Batman: AC Joker content Tesco exclusive

Joker's Carnival Challenge Map adds 4hrs.

If you pre-order Batman: Arkham City from UK supermarket Tesco you'll get a code to unlock the Joker's Carnival Challenge Map.

This is a separate set of missions based inside Joker's hideout. You'll need to use detective work, combat and stealth while inside. It's estimated to add four hours of additional gameplay.

Joker's Carnival Challenge Map is a pre-order bonus exclusive to Tesco in the UK.

Batman: Arkham City Xbox 360 spotted

For North America only?

Microsoft is commemorating the launch of Batman: Arkham City with a stylish limited edition white Xbox 360.

Batman Arkham City Xbox 360 pics

EG's Game of Gamescom 2011: The Nominees

A shortlist of 10. Winner announced Monday.

Eurogamer is proud to announce the 10 nominees for its Game of the Show, gamescom 2011!

Batman: Arkham City has old 3D for HDTVs

As well as stereo-flashy-face 3D.

Batman: Arkham City supports flashy new stereoscopic 3D as well as old-as-cobwebs bi-colour 3D.

VideoArkham City trailer reveals Mr. Freeze

Batman gets blizzard entertainment.

Batman: Arkham City at EG Expo

Saturday day tickets now sold out.

Dark Arkham Asylum sequel Batman: Arkham City will be playable at this year's Eurogamer Expo.

Batman pre-order skins will release as DLC

Available to all "down the track".

Rocksteady has confirmed to Eurogamer that the full range of Batman: Arkham City skins being divvied up between retailers as pre-order bonuses will become available to all later on as DLC.

The Batman: Arkham City pre-order skins

And where UK gamers can get them.

The six announced Batman: Arkham City skins have been collected and detailed.

Batman: Arkham City suits

Batman: Arkham City screenshots

Bane fights with Batman in Arkham City

AI-controlled character joins the fray.

An AI-controlled Bane will fight alongside Batman in Arkham City, Warner has announced.

GameStop launches UK online shop

"We'll definitely give the best value."

American mega-shop GameStop launched its UK online store last night.

Some GameStop UK game prices are lower than on competing sites. Batman: Arkham City can be pre-ordered for �29.97 on GameStop - �10 cheaper than on the Game or HMV website.

PlayStation Vita (Wi-Fi) can be pre-ordered for �209.97 from GameStop - �20 cheaper than Game and HMV.

Talia al Ghul confirmed for Arkham City

Batman's occasional squeeze joins the cast.

Anti-heroine Talia al Ghul is the latest character announced for Batman: Arkham City.

The daughter of crime boss Ra's al Ghul and Batman's occasional love interest in the comics will be voiced by Stana Katic, star of US TV series Castle.

"Talia is such a complex character and it was great to voice her in Batman: Arkham City," commented Katic. "I was amazed at all the detail put into the project and it's great to see how excited the fans are about the game."

VideoBatman Arkham City Penguin trailer

Flipper out.

UK Arkham City Collector's Ed official

Early access to Challenge Map included.

Warner Bros. has made official the UK Batman: Arkham City Collector's Edition.

Batman: Arkham City Collector's Edition

US Batman: Arkham City Collector's Ed

Statue, art book, early access to DLC.

In the US, the Batman: Arkham City Collector's Edition includes a premium statue, an art book, Gotham Knight animated material and early access to DLC.

Batman: Arkham City Two-Face art

Grin when you're sinning.

VideoBatman: Arkham City's Riddler teaser

Conundrum up some excitement.

Rocksteady outlines vision for Robin

Shaven head inspired by cage fighters.

Robin in Batman: Arkham City is "troubled", "introverted" but "dangerous and aggressive if provoked", Rocksteady has said.

Batman: Arkham City Robin concept art

Video10 mins of Batman: Arkham City video

Bats! Cats! Two-Face! Joker!

New Batman: Arkham City box art

Fresh pack shots of Bats' return.

Batman: Arkham City Riddler artwork

Character's role still an enigma.

Batman: Arkham City Robin pictured

Best Buy exclusive for use in challenge maps.

FeatureEurogamer's Best of E3 2011

Game of the Show, Best Tech, Best Publisher and more.

It began, as ever, with a leak. With just hours to go until Microsoft's absurdly lavish... Wait a second, this is last year's intro. Oh well, it turns out it still works: where last year we heard about Kinect before we'd even donned our space ponchos, this year we knew about Halo 4 and several new Kinect sequels before Don Mattrick even had a chance to start educating us about "growth and innovation".

Batman: Arkham City box art unveiled

Bat's back and looking broody.

OnLive: CGI Arkham City visuals possible

"This will be the new standard for gaming."

OnLive boss Steve Perlman believes games with visuals as good as those seen in the stunning CGI Batman: Arkham City trailer, below, will be possible on the online gaming tech.

Play as Robin in Batman Arkham City

He's a shop-exclusive gift.

You can play as Robin in Batman: Arkham City.

FeatureCheap This Week - 09/06/11

Arkham City! Mass Effect 3! Witcher 2!

It's an early bird special this week, with many of the biggest upcoming games available to pre-order now for really low prices. With all the new announcements coming out of E3, it looks like we've got an exciting year of gaming ahead of us, and this is your chance get in on the fun at discount prices.

Batman: Arkham City pics show Riddler

Bats back beating baddies.

VideoBatman: Arkham City Catwoman trailer

Footage of the playable female feline.

Catwoman playable in Arkham City

Selina Kyle missions unveiled.

Batman: Arkham City's main campaign sees you controlling Catwoman for a number of missions, developer Rocksteady Studios has revealed.

Batman: Arkham City lasts "25 hours"

Over 15 hours of sidequests included.

Rocksteady's Arkham Asylum sequel has "over 25 hours" of gameplay, game director Sefton Hill says.

Warner signs Unreal Engine 3 until 2014

For Batman, Mortal Kombat devs.

Rocksteady Studios (Batman: Arkham City) and NetherRealm Studios (Mortal Kombat) will exclusively use Unreal Engine 3 until 2014.

VideoFirst Batman Arkham City gameplay

We Gotham right here.

Batman: Arkham City reveals Riddler

Cracking the E. Nigma code.

Arkham City campaign lasts 8 hours

But only if you're a "ninja".

Forthcoming superhero sequel Batman: Arkham City will take at least eight hours to complete, developer Rocksteady Games has announced.

Batman: Arkham City release date

Get your Batcave on in October.

Rocksteady Studios' hotly-anticipated Batman sequel Arkham City will launch on 21st October, Warner Bros. Interactive has announced.

Arkham City is said to be five times larger than predecessor Arkham Asylum. It's set inside a heavily fortified district in Gotham City, where all the scum like to hang out.

Christian Donlan's Batman: Arkham City hands-on preview just went live.

FeatureBatman: Arkham City

Dark Knight, Big City.

Are the ears slightly longer? I think the ears might be slightly longer. The cape's definitely the same - still stylishly handy for stunning foes or sweeping across the night sky - and the hulking Bat-armour has that familiar metallic sheen. But the ears look... Different? Maybe? Now I'm not sure...

Joker and Batman in Arkham City shots

Grin it to win it.

No multiplayer for Batman: Arkham City

Rocksteady: "We've made the right decision."

There are no multiplayer modes in forthcoming superhero sequel Batman: Arkham City, developer Rocksteady Studios has confirmed.

Batman: Arkham City comics announced

Mini-series to plug gap between games.

A new comic book mini-series will bridge the gap between Batman: Arkham Asylum and its impending sequel, Arkham City, publisher Warner Bros. has announced.

Written by Paul Dini - who penned both games and various Batman: The Animated Series episodes - and drawn by the games' concept artist Carlos D'anda, the six-comic Batman: Arkham City series picks up one year after Arkham Asylum, filling us in on how the new Arkham City prison comes into being.

The first two issues of the six-comic run will be available in May, both digitally and in ye olde paper format, priced at $2.99 each. We're checking with Warner for UK pricing.

Latest Batman: Arkham City screens

For the Quinn.

Batman Arkham City is five times bigger

"A huge amount of navigational freedom."

Developer Rocksteady has revealed how the world of Batman: Arkham City will be a whopping five times bigger than Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Batman, Joker to team up in Arkham City?

Mystery trailer shows unlikely pairing.

Batman and arch-nemesis The Joker will put their differences aside and team up in the forthcoming Batman: Arkham City, if a mysterious leaked trailer is to be taken at face value.

New Batman: Arkham City snaps

Someone ordered a triple takedown!

Strange new screens for Arkham City

Get close up with Bat's new foe.

VideoHugo Strange for Batman: Arkham City

Gorgeous trailer shows off new baddie.

VideoBatman Arkham City teaser flies in

Autumn 2011 so near, sonar.

No Batmobile in Arkham City

No need - Bats is "the ultimate vehicle."

Hoping for a bit of Batmobile action in the forthcoming Batman: Arkham City? Tough luck - there are no vehicles in the game, developer Rocksteady Studios has revealed.

Arkham City screens swoop in

Bruce Wayning of the moon.

New Batman: Arkham City screens

Knight out on the town.

Batman: Arkham City

Knight out on the town.

Batman: Arkham City details emerge

New gadgets! New combat! Catwoman!

Some new details regarding forthcoming PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 title Batman: Arkham City have slipped out.

According to US magazine Game Informer (as read by IGN), the game is set one year after Arkham Asylum. Warden Quincy Sharp is now mayor of Gotham and he's built an even bigger, better facility titled Arkham City.

It's being overseen by psychiatrist Hugo Strange. Inmates are forbidden to try to escape, but other than that there are no rules and anything goes within the boundaries of the facility.

Batman: Arkham City revealed, dated

Catwoman confirmed?

The sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum has been revealed as Batman: Arkham City.

Batman domains name Arkham sequel?

"Where's Bruce Wayne?" asks one.

More than a dozen Batman-related domain names have been registered by Warner. Among them could be the title of Rocksteady's Arkham Asylum sequel.

Subtitles include Arkham City, Siege of Gotham, Grand Delusion, State of Villainy and Broken Ground, according to Superannuation.

And there are other names that appear to be destined for viral marketing efforts. These are Close Arkham City, People for Gotham, Stop Mayor Sharp, War in Gotham City and Where's Bruce Wayne.

Batman voice Kevin Conroy says so.

Kevin Conroy, the man who Batman's voice belongs to, has revealed that Arkham Asylum 2 will be "really, really dark".

Robin readied for Arkham Asylum II?

Warner not ruling him out.

Warner has avoided confirming whether Robin will be in Batman: Arkham Asylum II.

Rocksteady to make more than Batman

New owner Warner has made plans.

Warner's newest purchase Rocksteady Studios will be put to work on more than just new Batman: Arkham Asylum games.

Warner buys Batman dev Rocksteady

To Arkham Asylum 2 and beyond.

Batman licence-holder Warner Bros. has bought Batman: Arkham Asylum maker Rocksteady Studios for an undisclosed sum.

VideoBatman: Arkham Asylum 2 teaser

Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 unveiled

Rocksteady cracks on with sequel.

Warner Bros. has announced Batman: Arkham Asylum 2.