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Arkham City Still Has Uncovered Secrets, Says Game Director

Batman: Arkham City has been launched during the fall of 2011 and quickly became one of the biggest titles of the year, but despite the number of copies moved to gamers and the amount of time that has passed, there are still some secret elements in the superhero game that the fan base has failed to discover. Sefton ...

22 May 2012
15:01 GMT

Harley Quinn’s Revenge for Arkham City Gets Teaser Trailer

Video game developer Rocksteady and publisher Warner Bros. have launched the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Harley Quinn’s Revenge downloadable content, which will launch at the end of May for Batman: Arkham City. The new content will allow players to once again step into the combat suit of Bruce Wayne ...

11 May 2012
10:20 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Gets Harley Quinn DLC, Game of the Year Edition

Rocksteady has just unveiled that Batman: Arkham City will get not only its first story-based downloadable add-on, in the form of Harley Quinn’s Revenge, but also a special Game of the Year Edition, which includes all previous DLC for the game. Batman: Arkham City is one of the most celebrated titles of last y...

23 April 2012
10:11 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Dev Begins Teasing Harley Quinn DLC

Batman: Arkham City is set to receive its first actual story-based DLC in the near future, as developer Rocksteady has started teasing the announcement of the add-on that, as you can see in the image above, is almost certain to focus on Harley Quinn, Joker's infamous assistant. Batman: Arkham City delivered a g...

21 April 2012
11:31 GMT

Arkham City Focused on Making Batman Less of a Superhero

Batman: Arkham City might not have been the surprise hit that predecessor Arkham Asylum was, but the game was a commercial success nonetheless, with publisher Warner Bros. successfully overcoming the challenge of attracting Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed fans to its superhero protagonist. Matthew Geyer, who...

18 April 2012
07:52 GMT

Batman: Arkham City DLC Features Robin and Harley Quinn, Report Says

Batman: Arkham City is getting ready to receive a special bit of downloadable content soon, as a bunch of leaked trophies from its PlayStation 3 edition hint at a set of upcoming adventures focusing on Robin and Harley Quinn.Batman: Arkham City delivered a stunning experience that, unlike lots of games these days, fi...

4 April 2012
04:59 GMT

Rocksteady Has Exciting Ideas for Next Video Game Project

Batman: Arkham City might not have been a surprise on the level of its predecessor, Arkham Asylum, but it nevertheless delivered a solid and engaging superhero-powered experience and the development team at Rocksteady is ready to create and launch even more exciting titles. Sefton Hill, who is the game director who ...

19 March 2012
22:01 GMT

Multiplayer for Batman: Arkham City Would Have Affected Single Player Story

The developers at Rocksteady seem to have seriously considered adding a multiplayer mode to last year’s Batman: Arkham City, but found out early on that the resources needed to create it might actually make the single-player story less compelling. Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine in the United Kin...

13 February 2012
10:21 GMT

Batman: Arkham City’s Ending Wasn’t Just for Shock Value, Developer Says

The ending of Batman: Arkham City wasn’t made just to shock fans, as Rocksteady, the game’s developer, planned for such a conclusion and even consulted with people from DC Comics and Warner Bros. Batman: Arkham City was a stunning title, with lots of varied gameplay and a story that delivered players new...

13 February 2012
04:29 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Dev Reportedly Working on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game

Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the Batman: Arkham games, is reportedly working on a brand new game, this time with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property, which is scheduled to feature a grittier take on the famous franchise. Rocksteady Studios burst onto the games industry scene with Batman: Arkham Asy...

25 January 2012
12:41 GMT

GDC 2012 Adds Double Fine and Batman Talks

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference 2012 have announced that they have added two sessions to the schedule of the Main Conference, one of them from developers at Double Fine and another from Rocksteady. The Double Fine talk is linked to the Design track of GDC and will be called “Fun for Everyone: ...

29 December 2011
02:28 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Gets New DLC Bundle Packs

After deploying the first free downloadable content for Batman: Arkham City yesterday, in the form of the Batman Inc. outfit, Rocksteady Studios has now presented two fresh bundle packs, which bring together the Nightwing and Robin content packs, as well as the various challenge maps that already appeared for the gam...

22 December 2011
02:34 GMT

Rocksteady Asks PC Batman Players to Switch to DirectX 9

The developers who worked on the PC version of Batman: Arkham City that was just launched have announced that running the game using DirectX 11 causes a number of performance problems and urges players to move to a lower version before a patch is released.In Games for Windows Live players need to select the Launcher ...

24 November 2011
09:51 GMT

New Batman Games Might Not Use Open World Structure

The fact that Batman: Arkham City is an open world game was a result of the story choices made for the game and not an arbitrary decision from the developers at Rocksteady.Sefton Hill, who is the game director who worked on Batman: Arkham City, has stated, “When we started the game we didn’t sit down and ...

27 October 2011
17:31 GMT

Rocksteady Talks About Villains and Boss Fights in Batman: Arkham City

Rocksteady Studios' game director, Sefton Hill, has talked about the big number of villains and the boss fights in Batman: Arkham City, just as the game is being released all over the world this week.The Dark Knight is getting ready for a new set of adventures made by Rocksteady, with the UK-based studio bringin...

18 October 2011
04:39 GMT

Voice Work for Batman: Arkham City Harder than for The Animated Series

Batman: Arkham City is one of the biggest video game launches of the fall and players who are getting ready to play the game should take into account the amount of work, especially when it comes to voice acting, that has gone into the game.Kevin Conroy, who is the actor voicing The Dark Knight both The Animated Serie...

17 October 2011
17:41 GMT

No Bruce Wayne for Batman: Arkham City

The developers at Rocksteady working on the upcoming Batman: Arkham City have been pretty ambitious about the scale of the video game and seem determined to add as much as possible of the universe surrounding the character to the experience. But one representative has made it clear that players will only see Batma...

22 August 2011
05:18 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Developer Talks About Batman and Catwoman Relationship

Batman: Arkham City is set to feature, besides The Dark Knight, other characters like Catwoman, so its developer, Rocksteady Studios, has revealed a few more details about the interactions between the main protagonist and these other heroes or villains. Batman: Arkham City is set to arrive later this year from Roc...

28 July 2011
02:40 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Collector's Edition Revealed

Batman: Arkham City, the new open-world, third-person adventure title from Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros., has just received the official confirmation of its Collector's Edition, which will be available in limited quantities later this year alongside the regular title.Batman: Arkham City is eagerly anticipa...

21 July 2011
03:20 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Profiles Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent, Artwork Available

One of the major villains that will appear in the upcoming Batman: Arkham City game featuring the Caped Crusader, Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent, the former district attorney of Gotham City, now a horrifyingly scarred criminal boss, has just been profiled by the developer behind the title, Rocksteady.Batman: Arkham...

18 July 2011
03:50 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Gets First Gameplay Trailer, The Riddler as a Villain

After finding out the release date of Batman: Arkham City at the beginning of the week, Rocksteady Studios, its developer, has just revealed the first actual gameplay video of the new title, and even confirmed that The Riddler will be a direct villain in this game. Batman: Arkham City is set to take the great expe...

17 March 2011
04:55 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Will Feature A Different Detective Mode

Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to the popular Arkham Asylum title that was launched last year, will feature a lot of changes in order to make it more immersive but keep the things that helped the first title become so popular with fans of the Dark Knight.We've already heard about the open world and the linear s...

30 September 2010
18:01 GMT

Batman Arkham City Has Same Fighting Mechanics

Warner Bros, the publisher and rights holder, and Rocksteady, the developer, have said that the new Batman based video games, called Arkham City, will have the same basic combat system as Arkham Asylum but will offer the player a host of new moves when it comes to guiding characters through the environments.Batman wi...

27 September 2010
06:40 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Story Gets Details

Rocksteady, as the developer, and Warner Bros, as the publisher, have offered some new detail about their new Batman video game, called Arkham City, talking about how the city of Gotham will be featured in the experience and how the gameplay can include more details that the first title in the series.The details are ...

23 September 2010
06:02 GMT

Rocksteady Is Capable Of Even Better Games Says Studio Boss

In a recent interview, Sefton Hill, the head of Rocksteady and , said that the studio had not reached its creative peak with Batman: Arkham Asylum and the future projects will be even better. He also commented that his outfit was now very confident and keen to take their next games in bold directions. Speaking with D...

12 August 2010
05:25 GMT

Heavy Rain and Quantic Dream Win Big at the Develop Awards

In a ceremony at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton Develop hosted its video game oriented awards, which reward the European gaming industry and the products and creators that represent it worldwide. The big winner of the night was the United Kingdom video game industry, which picked up most of the awards handed ...

15 July 2010
03:13 GMT

Arkham Asylum Sequel Details Hinted At By Web Domain Registrations

 There has not been a lot of information about the follow-up to last year's big superhero title Batman: Arkham Asylum. All that it is known is that there is a sequel in the works at Rocksteady and that it is the last time Mark Hamill will be the voice of The Joker. Warner Brothers has recently registered a ...

13 July 2010
04:24 GMT

Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 Will Be Mark Hamill's Last Appearance as Joker

Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 will be Mark Hamill's last rendition of The Joker's voice, according to his latest interview with IGN. He was suspicious at first about making a sequel to last year's Batman: Arkham Asylum, as he thought it could not be topped, but developer Rocksteady managed to convince him th...

28 May 2010
15:51 GMT

Battle Mister Freeze and Talia al Ghul in Batman: Arkham Asylum 2

Since the rather short reveal done earlier in the year, we have not heard anything about Batman: Arkham Asylum 2, the videogame featuring Dark Knight, which is under development at Rocksteady and will be published by Warner Bros. Entertainment. But now, two voice actors have revealed that the game will allow players ...

20 April 2010
18:41 GMT

Warner Bros. Gets Majority Stake in Batman Developer Rocksteady

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has announced that it has taken over developer Rocksteady Studios, the creators of the Arkham Asylum Batman-themed videogame. It was very well received when it was released in 2009, managing to capture the essence of the comic book character while delivering a mix of combat and a...

24 February 2010
04:20 GMT

Batman Wasn't Batman Enough, It Lacked Violence [UPDATE]

Ever since video-game graphics began to enter the domain of photo-realism, there hasn't been a subject quite as hot as video-game violence. Everything was acceptable when you exploded your foes in 8-bit, perfectly square chunks, but, when your adversaries started leaving their liver, guts and brains on the floor...

29 December 2009
06:03 GMT

The New Batman Game Won't Venture into Arkham's Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum managed to prove that comic-book superheros and their games were anything but dead and that the genre could still produce some genuinely good products. The game scored big time not only with the critics, but with the fans as well, and even won a world record, Guinness awarding it the title of "M...

16 December 2009
03:06 GMT

Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 Revealed

For an event meant to take a look at the games that were released this year and pit them against each other for the sake of constructive criticism, this year's edition of the Video Game Awards made more unveilings regarding new titles than a press conference. A lot of big ones have received sequels and, while so...

14 December 2009
06:11 GMT

Batman Arkham Asylum and the First Flaw in Its Impenetrable Armor

If any comic book hero could be the starting point for a successful video game, then that could only be Batman. Or maybe Spawn, Spawn could definitely pull it off. He tried in the past and failed, but maybe he just didn't get his hands on a proper developer. But the man of the hour is Batman, and he did manage t...

7 October 2009
18:01 GMT

Batman Arkham Asylum Could Have Been a Rhythm Game

Batman Arkham Asylum is a game that proved superheroes can still be on top of the charts. It was praised by fans and critics alike and was even awarded a world record. With the highest average review score to date, of 91.67, it received the Guinness World Record for "Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever." Bu...

7 October 2009
05:13 GMT

Developer Not Decided on Sequel for Batman: Arkham Asylum

As always in the videogaming business, a successful release leads to questions about whether a long running franchise is born. Batman: Arkhmam Asylum, which closes the dark crusader with a variety of villains like Killer Croc, The Riddle and the Joker in the gothic and gargoyle filled insane prison, has been received...

9 September 2009
14:41 GMT

Eidos Boss Says Rocksteady Isn't Working on Hitman 5

Eidos, or now Square Enix Europe, is one of the biggest publishers from the Old Continent, taking care of franchises like Tomb Raider or Kane and Lynch. But one of its most respected series, Hitman, has always managed to gain critical acclaim through every iteration. That is why the team at IO Interactive, its devel...

17 August 2009
13:11 GMT


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