Tag Archives: batman

Top 10 Boss Battles

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog On February 14th 2012

Top 10 Boss Battles

Videogames force you to kill (or at the very least, brutally beat down) a lot of people. Whether you’re playing Halo, Skyrim, or even something as seemingly innocent as Mario, by the time you see a game’s ending credits you’ve likely killed more people/aliens/turtle-things than you can count. The amount of Chinese peasants you kill in one level of Dynasty Warriors would be enough to get you branded as a war criminal in real life. Hell, play a few hours of Call of Duty and you’ll likely kill more faceless soldiers on screen than Arnold Schwarzenegger has in all of his movies combined (538, by the way).

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Time to get Crazy-Batty with Gotham City Imposters

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Console News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On February 6th 2012

Time to get Crazy-Batty with Gotham City Imposters

For those of you who have read some of the initial press or reviews about Monolith’s eagerly awaited Gotham City Impostors, you’re most likely pretty stoked that it comes out tomorrow. If you haven’t, then get ready for, as Monolith puts it, “Over-the-top gameplay where players become personalized versions of the Bats and the Jokerz.” Yep, that’s right, you get to play as impostors of either The Caped Crusader or his insane and chaotic antagonist, The Joker. Did I mention it’s only $15?

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Michael’s Top 5 Games of 2011

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog On January 1st 2012

Michael’s Top 5 Games of 2011

2011 was a good year for me. Sure, the world may have been racked by natural disasters, economic collapses, random acts of violence, the endless stupidity of GOP debates, and another terrible Transformers movie, but while society on the whole seems to be going to hell, on a personal scale I really enjoyed myself this year. I mean, yes, I’m still an misanthropic, anti-social bastard who spent a good amount of time cooped up inside, but I’ve had fun. I played a lot of video games. Yes, those hundreds of hours I spent this year in front of my TV or PC probably could’ve been better spent learning a skill or, y’know, getting laid, but hey, you take what happiness you can find. So now that I’m finished making possibly the most depressing and self-deprecating statement ever, allow me to present to you my favorite games of 2011.

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Batman: Arkham City Review

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: PC, Playstation 3, Reviews, Xbox 360 On December 12th 2011

Batman: Arkham City Review

Batman: Arkham Asylum was to superhero video games what Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins was to Batman movies; just as Nolan’s film proved that it was possible to create a gritty, intelligent crime drama starring The Caped Crusader (who’s film appearances up until that point had been limited to campy garbage,) Arkham Asylum likewise proved that, after years of appearing in shovelware and quick movie cash-ins, it was indeed possible to create a good game starring Batman. So does that make Arkham Asylum’s sequel, Arkham City, the gaming equivalent of The Dark Knight? Well, not quite, but it’s still an amazing game in it’s own right.

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WB Interactive Talks About How to Make Good Superhero Games

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News On December 10th 2011

WB Interactive Talks About How to Make Good Superhero Games

While getting to be a superhero is every child’s (and man-child’s) dream, few games have managed to successfully recreate the experience. For every decent game like Neversoft’s Spider-Man 2, you end up with at least two or three games like Superman 64 or X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But London based developer Rocksteady Studios has bucked this trend by developing the two best superhero games ever made, Batman: Arkham Asylum and it’s follow-up, Arkham City, back to back. In a recent interview with Canadian Business, Martin Carrier and Reid Schneider, the studio heads of WB Interactive, the publisher of those games, explained why they’ve succeeded where others have failed:

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360, 3DS, and Battlefield 3 Dominate October Sales Charts

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News On November 12th 2011

360, 3DS, and Battlefield 3 Dominate October Sales Charts

Apparently October was a good month for things with “3″ in their title, as the 360 once again led console sales with approximately 393,000 new Xboxes sold in the US during the month.  The 3DS also had a surprisingly good month too, coming in at second with a healthy 250,000 units sold, giving hope that there may be a future for Nintendo’s embattled handheld yet. Nintendo is now claiming that the system is selling faster than the original DS did within the same time frame. As for software sales, Battlefield 3 came out on top, with over 2 million copies sold, which, while not quite pulling in the more massive audience that Call of Duty usually gets, BF3 at least seems like it’ll make enough money to ensure that the Battlefield vs. CoD rivalry continues for another iteration.

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Gotham City Impostors – Release Date January 10th 2012

Posted By: Zack Dodge In: Gaming News On November 10th 2011

Gotham City Impostors – Release Date January 10th 2012

In case you may not have noticed, Batmam: Arkham City may have provided you lucky Batman lovers with some beta time for the upcoming Gotham City Impostors. Turns out that the beta will launch sometime in December, and the release date is only a month to follow. Gotham City Impostors will be available January 10th 2012, this is a downloadable title as well.

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n00b Gamer: Arkham City (Day 1)

Posted By: Angela Min In: Blog On October 27th 2011

n00b Gamer: Arkham City (Day 1)

I am a novice gamer, at best. While the gaming industry does intrigue me, my gaming skills are limited to playing Mario and Donkey Kong on my Super Nintendo as well as Tetris, Pokemon, and Sims. With this in mind, I would like to go on to say some of my fellow colleagues started to make a giant point: how could I possibly write in depth articles about games if I didn’t play them? So I decided to write a daily blog of sorts on my frustrations and hardships playing my first Xbox 360 game (besides fighting games, which I like to call my button smashing games). It would only make sense that I would pick up Batman: Arkham City as my first game, since you know, it’s Batman.

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