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Spider-Man's new movie mask sports yellow eyes. Catwoman's nightvision-glasses-as-ears look works. And I still think Hawkeye's going to be the best character in the Avengers movie. Feast your eyes on the big offerings from Marvel and DC from this year's celebration of plastic (or porcelain) collectibles. More »
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I started off my talk with DC Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer on the wrong foot, by forgetting that Geoff Johns has been writing an Aquaman series. "You just proved my point," he chided me. The point being that people rag on the publisher's amphibious character, which is a phenomenon that Johns is trying to reverse in the DC Comics New 52 relaunch. Johns' Aquaman is powerful in ways that other characters in the DC Universe are not and, when cannibalistic sea creatures come to the surface, the same people who once made fun of the Sea King in the comics have to thank him for saving their lives. More »
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Batman's had lots of sidekicks over the years. Imps from other dimensions, mask-wearing dogs and his own kill-crazy offspring have leapt from the shadows with the DC Comics superhero. He's trained them, scolded them and in case of Ace the Bat-hound, probably picked up their poop while out on patrol. But there's been a tacit Bat-approval for all of those partners. More »
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Today is Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas New Year's Day Valentine's Day. So if you're playing Batman: Arkham City and you don't believe in cheating by changing your system's internal clock, go talk to the Calendar Man today. More »
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This week, there's a good amount of solid stuff new at the PlayStation store; it ain't the horn of plenty that we've seen in the past, but it's certainly better than the cursed wasteland that was last week's PlayStation Store update. More »
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Whoa there, viral marketeers! You have to be careful not to overshadow your product with the promotion, as these lovely shots of everyday people dressing up in Gotham City Impostors garb readily demonstrate. More »
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Gotham City Impostors doesn't hit Xbox Live until tomorrow, but you can get all of the Gotham City Impostors DLC you could ever want today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883143&view=rss&microfeed=true There've been betas and release date push-backs but the game that lets you be a violent devotee of Batman or his crazy archenemy will finally hit platforms next week. The downloadable FPS will be available on February 7 for PlayStation Network and Windows PC users in the Americas and on February 8 for PSN users outside of the the Americas. The Xbox Live version comes out on February 8th as well. Gotham City Impostors. More »
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We ran impressions of the private beta for Gotham City Impostors a while back and now everyone with an Xbox or PS3 can get their taste of Monolith's upcoming multiplayer FPS in the public beta. It's your chance to be an overweight Bat-worshipper or finally get to blow stuff up while wearing clown shoes. Go grab it on PlayStation Network or Xbox Live, citizen. More »
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Part of the appeal of the Batman mythos is that, in becoming his masked alter ego, Bruce Wayne took the pain of great tragedy and used to fuel a transformation. Of course, with pain comes fear, but Batman's one superhero seems to have conquered that emotion. More »
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Earlier today, comics powerhouse DC unveiled a new logo. Well, new logos, as the idea behind the company's new "peeling" motif is that it can be customised for every piece of entertainment it appears on. While that'll mostly be comics, DC did go to the trouble of showing how the property's video games will look. More »
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Even as Rocksteady Studios's turned out two stellar Batman video games, other visions of the Dark Knight have shown up in Batman: Brave and the Bold and DC Universe. (Gotham City Impostors doesn't really count since players aren't controlling Batman, just his bizarre fan club.) More »
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Every year the Writers Guild of America awards a special Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing award to the team responsible for the most memorable interactive entertainment script. Which of these five titles will walk away a winner on February 19? More »
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Batman's a character often portrayed as the ultimate loner, but giving Bruce Wayne an actual, biological son has been the best thing to happen to him in recent years. A few years ago, writer Grant Morrison introduced the character of Damian Wayne—the result of the dysfunctional romance between Batman and Talia, daughter of archenemy Ra's Al Ghul—and the condescending Son of the Bat's gone one to become his father's sidekick. More »
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With the console beta test for Monolith's downloadable dose of bat on clown violence still ramping up, Warner Bros. has gently pushed the release date for Gotham City Impostors from January into February. Someone notify Julian Day! More »
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Picking the best games of the year always boils down to opinion, which always leads to dissension over subjectivity and bias. So, while Kotaku's staffers rallied around Portal 2 as the site's GOTY, readers held their own damn awards and anointed Skyrim as their standout title for 2011. More »
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Gruesome things have been happening in the recently rebooted Detective Comics. How gruesome, you ask? [Spoilers if you haven't been reading.] More »
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The people behind Batman's video games seem to think that players can never have enough Batsuits. Loads of variant outfits—some free, some not—have been pushed out for both Arkham City and the iOS spin-off Arkham City Lockdown. The latest update to the Dark Knight's portable adventure includes more new looks, including one from a graphic novel that's not even out yet. More »
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The latest update to Rocksteady's hit Bat-game came yesterday, bringing with it a new Batsuit and new Challenge maps for players to perfect their stalking and combat skills in. More »
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To thank you for making their publishers millions of dollars and themselves a swag of awards, Batman: Arkham City developers Rocksteady have unlocked a couple of holiday treats for owners of the game. More »
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What's our game of the year? We're not telling... yet. But E Online has gone with Batman: Arkham City. Portal 2 was second. Uncharted 3 came in third. Breaking the pattern, The Elder Scrolls V came in fourth, not fifth. More »
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Not to be confused with Square Enix's bigger, more expensive pieces, these Arkham City figures from DC may be smaller, but they also feature a lot more characters. More »
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Now that November's PC beta test has come and gone, Warner Bros. and Monolith are ready to get console players into the dopple-gangbanger fun of Gotham City Impostors. More »
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The two lead voice actors from this year's Batman: Arkham City ripped the Spike Video Game Awards on Twitter last night. They both lost in their respective categories, but, they said, that's not why they'e complaining. More »
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Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing may not be known by its name to many gamers, but they certainly do recognize its good looks, being used in such visually luxurious games as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City and Battlefield 3 More »
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The latest set-up clip from Warner Bros. Animation for the upcoming Bat-FPS puts viewers in the middle of a firefight where the game's factions face-off against each other. Sure, a gun battle in what looks like broad daylight probably isn't how Bruce Wayne would handle things but the Bat-vibe in this game will be different than in others. These videos have been great in setting up the free-for-all tone of the world but the actual gameplay's going to have to live up the humor and fun set up in these cartoons. Gotham City Impostors hits next months for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. More »
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This week on the PlayStation store, we've got new full-game downloads for Dragon Age II and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, as well as the PSN game Wanted Corp. Plenty of games get DLC content, including Batman: Arkham City, which gives purchasers all of the skins that were initially offered as various pre-order bonuses. (Including the Batman Beyond skin, which I believe makes you 45% more attractive while playing.) More »
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When I first heard about Gotham City Impostors, this lifelong Batman fan got very nervous. Part of it comes from the way the game's premise rubs up uncomfortably against Caped Crusader canon. More »
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Artist Dean Fraser of Springfield Punx fame is up to his old tricks again, giving the heroes and villains of Batman: Arkham City a Simpsons-style makeover. Mmmmm, Springfield Catwoman. More »
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I've never been a fan of Black Friday, it's a celebration of everything terrible world: consumerism gone wild, so wild these days that it can lead to violence. More »
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After being mentioned in the GTTV Presents GameStop Unwrapped TV special on Thanksgiving, it looks like the newest location for players to kick the asses of Gotham's worst criminals is going to be the Dark Knight's innermost sanctum. A new DLC pack's coming on December 20th, which bundles the all-new Batcave challenge map, along with the previously available Iceberg Lounge and Joker's Carnival maps. There's not been a press release about the Challenge Map Pack yet, but Rocksteady Studios confirmed the date on their official Twitter account. No word on pricing yet, but expect it to be in line with the range of previous add-ons for Batman: Arkham City. We'll update when we learn more. More »
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Fan artist Dean Fraser, who specialises in turning pop culture icons into characters from The Simpsons, has spent the week giving Batman: Arkham City his (or, well, Matt Groening's) signature treatment. More »
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Along with the long-awaited PC release of Batman: Arkham City in North America today, Warner Bros. and Rocksteady have delivered the Caped Crusader's trusty sidekick to us as well, neatly tied up with a pair of brand-new challenge maps and a couple of skins. More »
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Any way you slice it, it's been a good year for Nolan North. At this time last year, the ever-present voice actor had become something of a go-to joke—people had cottoned to the fact that his voice was featured in 50% of the video games that had been released that year (slight exaggeration), and had started to give him some good-natured jibes. More »
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When it comes to bringing action found in popular comics, anime and video games to life, the Thousand Pounds Action Company sets a pretty high standard. They've done videos based off of DC Comics, Naruto Shippuden and Street Fighter and now they're adding the Dark Knight's latest video game to their portfolio. More »
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In case you wanted a reason to go goof off in Arkham City again, the folks at Rooster Teeth have taken the time to show us how to activate Big-Head mode in Rocksteady's gritty comic book adventure. More »
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So, Batman: Arkham City is a leading contender for Game of the Year and, as would follow, its reviews have been very positive. Anyone who hasn't bought it yet is probably just scrimping and saving, waiting for just the right sale to finally get them to commit to saving Gotham City. More »
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As the Occupy Gotham demonstration continues, Batman attempts to explain to a group of protesters how the world needs Apple, Wayne Enterprises, Google, and Wayne Enterprises. More »
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Wrapping up work on their epic Batman: Arkham City, the developers at U.K.-based Rocksteady Studios set out to party hardy. First up was a 250-lap go-kart race. Then they went to Wayne Manor's real-life stand-in and turned on the Bat-Signal. More »
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