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Square Enix Says Japanese Retail "Prejudiced" Against Western Games
As far as business execs at large Japanese companies go, Yoichi Wada seems rather forward thinking. He's been tackling discrimination in video games head on. More »Batman Comic Book Writer Advocates More Video Game Violence?
Landry Walker, writer on comic book Batman: The Brave and The Bold, recently played Batman: Arkham Asylum and did not like what he saw. In his own words, "Batman doesn't get shot. He doesn't get shot, because he's Batman." More »What a Day, What a Year
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Some day this past summer, Sefton Hill was browsing the Internet, reading comments about the demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum. He came across an acronym he didn't know: GOTY. The lead creator of Arkham Asylum, he would learn it. More »VGAs Offer First Look At Medal Of Honor, Arkham Asylum 2 & More
Tonight's Spike TV VGAs offered new video reveals that were part expected, part surprise. From the expected camp was EA's revitalized Medal of Honor, a modern day Middle Eastern shoot 'em up, seen in trailer form for the first time. More »From the VGAs Mark Hamill Hints at Arkham 2 [Updated]
Kotaku's Michael McWhertor is in L.A. for tonight's video game awards, where Mark Hamill told him he was asked to do a trailer for a sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum. Update: Looks like that game has been announced. More »Steam Launches 5-Day 1-Day Holiday Sale
Steam loves a good sale, so this holiday season they've packed five sales into one, with five different one-day sales running between now and November 30th, starting with savings on Dragon Age, Batman, and more. More »Batman Arkham Asylum Defaced With Lego (Wait A Minute...)
Not interested in promoting vandalism we must nevertheless provide evidence of what, following that Resident Evil deed, must be a spree of Lego-based game-ad defacement. (Two is a "spree," yes?) More »The World Ends With Batman, Brando And The Spy
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Console Batman: Arkham Asylum players may have gotten the game first, but they'll never be able to dress Batman up like Captain America. More »Aion Wings It To The Top Of September PC NPDs
The NPD PC charts for September have arrived, bringing with them several new entries amidst the old favorites, with Batman, Champions Online, and Aion slipping into the top 20. More »What Makes A Video Game Scary
How can a video game be scary? Unlike horror movies where you're stuck watching some hapless victim succumb to scary stuff, video games empower players to fight back. Or at least run away. It's October. Time to identify horror-gaming's essentials. More »Batman Arkham Asylum Could Have Been Rhythm Action Game
Over 2.5 million copies of Batman: Arkham Asylum have been shipped. The game's really good. It might have been different. More »Second Batman Challenge Map Out Early in the UK [Update]
Just a reminder that Prey in the Darkness, the second challenge map in the Batman: Arkham Asylum set of free downloadable content, will arrive on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live tomorrow. More »Holy 2.5 Million Units Shipped, Batman!
2 million units sold is impressive, sure, but now that the PC version is out and about, Eidos celebrates passing along 2.5 million units to retail shelves since the launch of Batman: Arkham Asylum. More »Insane Night Brings Two New Challenge Maps To Arkham Asylum
This Thursday's free Insane Night downloadable content for Batman: Arkham Asylum brings two new challenge maps to the game, testing the limits of players' FreeFlow Combat and Invisible Predator skills. More »Holy Two Million Units Sold, Batman
While the August NPD numbers show Batman: Arkham Asylum had sold 593,000 copies, those numbers don't include the two weeks of September we've had since then. Factor those in and the game's sold almost two million copies. More »Deliberate Glitch Foils Arkham PC Pirates
A deliberate glitch in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum has pirates perplexed to the point of accidentally outing themselves on the official Eidos forums. More »Another Riddler Clue?
Kotaku reader Matt Shafeek spotted something in downtown Seattle that reminds him of Batman: Arkham Asylum but resisted adding it to his inventory screen.Two Download Packs Coming to Batman Over Two Weeks
Batman: Arkham Asylum will be getting two download packs over the next two weeks, according to the official European Playstation Blog. More »Eidos Confirms Arkham DLC is for PC, Too
The PS3 news ticker this morning said Batman: Arkham Asylum is due for some free DLC on Sept. 17. In its forums, Eidos has confirmed the package will also arrive for PC and the Xbox 360. More »