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The marketing for next month's release of The Dark Knight Rises is in full effect, and since they've already got sodas taken care of, that can mean only one thing: Facebook games. This time around, it's The Fire Rises, a real-time strategy set in Gotham City...

Although I'll be damned if I can find it, we're reliably informed by Batman News that one of the teaser banners released last week in support of The Dark Knight Rises came with a hidden QR code that, when scanned, directed visitors to the film's official website and yet another poster for the new Batman film, this one featuring Catwoman...

Last week Mattel gave collectors a first look at its The Dark Knight Rises action figures of Alfred and John Blake from its... more canonical... 6" Movie Masters line. Today, new images have surfaced of Mattel's more kid-focused 4" Quik-Tek figures, along with images of "The Bat" and the Batpod...

A lot of fans weren't super impressed with Mattel's initial preview images of its Movie Masters figures for The Dark Knight Rises, mostly because the Bane sculpt wasn't articulated. Judging from Toy Ark/HissTank's display photos taken at Toy Fair over the weekend, though, collectors can rest easy -- Bane looks right at home in the 6" line, sporting all the joints you'd expect...

German fan site BatmanNews has posted a new scan from a local "prospectus" from Mattel showing off a variety of toys from the company's upcoming The Dark Knight Rises line. Among the items are several scales of Batman and Bane figures, plus a number of remote-controlled Bat vehicles like an armored Batpod...

Video: Conan O'Brien comments on the arguably less-than-totally-audible state of Bane's voice in The Dark Knight Rises. Gaming: Batman-based FPS Gotham City Impostors has been delayed, but only until February. Movies: It's a sad day for fans who had hoped to watch Tetsuo and Kaneda become barkeep bros in New York City...

Toys: In Icons' $100 1/6th scale Steve Jobs action figure may be too eerie for your toy shelf. Movies: A rumored new audio mix may make Bane easier to understand in The Dark Knight Rises. Anime: Bandai Entertainment is ceasing production of its North American releases, which means new Gundam could be lost to us for some time...

When the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises was released on December 19, it broke the record for most downloads through the iTunes Movie Trailers site and the iTunes Trailer app, with more than 12.5 million views in 24 hours. It seems like the next 24 hours brought about 12...

As we predicted in our early review of The Dark Knight Rises prologue, actor Tom Hardy's heavily affected accent filtered through the mouth-covering mask of Bane has resulted in an immediately distinctive and eminently mockable voice. Reports indicated that director Christopher Nolan was largely satisfied with Bane's speech but that slight modifications were forthcoming...

While there has been some infinitesimal measure of divide amongst viewers of The Dark Knight Rises prologue and trailer with respect to their overall awesomeness, what is 100% unanimous is the audience's estimation of Bane: you can't understand what he's saying through that mask, at least not on the first listen...