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Batman: Arkham City comics fill the gap between games

February 9, 2011February 11, 2011 Doug Groves Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Batman, Carlos D'anda, Comics, DC Comics, miniseries, Paul Dini, PC gaming, PS3, Rocksteady, Xbox 3602 Comments

I was really late to the game when Batman: Arkham Asylum came out in 2009. Even though it was a commercial and critical success, with most saying it was the best Batman game of all time, it struck me as faint praise, given what had come before. Last fall, I finally got around to picking it up, and I loved everything about it. The game captured the spirit of Batman better than anything outside the comics. Even if it were stripped of the Dark Knight’s trappings, the gameplay was fluid,…

Batman: Arkham Asylum drops today. And you can afford it.

August 25, 2009August 29, 2009 Danny X Batman2 Comments

There have been myriad Batman games over the years, but none of them have really quite gotten it right, and some were downright terrible (I’m looking at you, Batman Begins.) But the newest offering from Eidos, “Arkham Asylum”, has been making the review rounds for a little while now, and the feedback has been hugely favourable. Finally, after months of downloading gaming videos and waiting in line at FutureShop to get your hands on the in-store demo, the game drops today, and for a special price of less than $40…

Fanboys declare Dark Knight as the ‘Greatest Movie Ever!’

July 21, 2008July 25, 2009 drsquid Batman, imdb20 Comments

Not only has The Dark Knight achieved a record highest opening weekend ever (an estimated $155 million, beating Spiderman 3’s opening in 2007), but the film is now “officially” the “Greatest Movie of All-Time”. As of midnight, Monday, over 46 000 users of The Internet Movie Database have given The Dark Knight an average score of 9.5. This puts it in the top spot of IMDB’s Top 250 Movies as Voted by Our Users list. What are these people smoking? The Dark Knight is a very good movie, and not…