Arkham City

Ever since Batman: Arkham Asylum hit consoles in 2009, I've been a pretty big fan of what Rocksteady's been doing with the franchise. The one exception has been the character design they've gone with for Harley Quinn. Every time I look at it, I just can't figure out how they got from the original version designed by Bruce Timm to a character who looks like she's on her way to catch a once-in-a-li

More dreams came true at Comic-Con 2011 this year, where I sent our Senior Batmanlogist Chris Sims to interview not only actress Stana Katic, the voice of Talia in the Batman: Arkham City video game, but Kevin Conroy, who has been the voice of Batman since 1992 in animated shows, movies, and video games...

Of all the comic books, movies and tie-ins that featured at Comic-Con International in San Diego, the one I was unquestionably the most excited about was Batman: Arkham City. The upcoming sequel to 2009's Arkham Asylum video game drops the Dark Knight into a massive urban environment transformed into a city-sized prison for super-villains...

Between the inclusion of the Riddler and Penguin, Batman: Arkham City's been getting loads of new villains reveals lately, but anti-hero Catwoman trumps them all as a full-on playable character. Rocksteady Studios marketing game manager Dax Ginn gave Gamespot the inside scoop on Selina Kyle's newly-announced playable status, explaining that she's substantially more than a simple Batman re-skin, ac

In anticipation of Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to the hugely popular Batman: Arkham Asylum video game, DC Comics will release in May the first of a six-issue comic book miniseries that bridges the gap between the two games. Also called Batman: Arkham City, the miniseries is written by Paul Dini and illustrated by Carlos D'anda, both of whom worked on the games from Rocksteady Studio... Read Mo

Well, it looks like the folks at Rocksteady Studios really want to get our attention, huh? Not 24 hours after we finally got to see some gameplay footage from Batman: Arkham City, news drops that the Riddler (who made a kinda-sorta appearance in Arkham Asylum) is stepping out of the digital shadows and will be featured prominently in the upcoming game -- and there's pictures to prove it... Read Mo

Following the steady release of increasingly brutal screenshots, Warner Bros. games and Rocksteady Studio have finally released the first video of actual gameplay from Batman: Arkham City. Beyond the full-motion demonstration of what players can do with the Dark Knight in the expansive landscape of Gotham City, the new trailer also features the voices of Kevin Conroy's Batman, Mark Hammil's The J

Warner Bros. Games launched this week a new website dedicated to publishing news, images and other media in support of Batman: Arkham City, the painfully anticipated sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum, starring the legendary DC Comics superhero...

It probably won't surprise anyone that I absolutely loved last year's Batman: Arkham Asylum video game, and one of the things I really liked about it was the simplicity of the combat that perfectly encapsulated how the Caped Crusader deals with thugs...