Released in 2013, the WB Games Montréal developed Batman: Arkham Origins was unjustly seen as a stepping stone to the Rocksteady Studios developed sequel to Batman: Arkham City which would be unveiled in early 2014 as Batman: Arkham Knight. While it had its champions at launch – I consider myself among them – time has…
Batman: Arkham Origins gets a bad rap and I’ve never really understood why. Yes, it didn’t really evolve the Arkham series beyond what Rocksteady did with the first two titles in the franchise, but it has a terrific story, a great new Batman and Joker voiced by Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker respectively and some downright chilling…
Canada, the country in which I call home, is celebrating a milestone birthday today. July 1st, 2017 marks the 150th birthday of the day that the country known as Canada came into existence. Video game fans owe a lot to the country of Canada, for without it and the talented people who live in it,…
It’s approaching three years since the release of Batman: Arkahm Knight, and since then the only thing Batman related that has come out of WB Games is the Batman: Arkham VR experience for PSVR as well as rumors and conjecture. The rumor that was never substantiated by anyone from WB Games that was circling was that the next Batman…
This coming Saturday September 17th is Batman Day and to celebrate, Sony is offering PlayStation owners a discount on most every Batman game to ever arrive on a PlayStation console or handheld. Up until September 19th, you can get deals on the entire Arkahm series on PS3: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batrman: Arkham City as well as Batman: Arkham Origins. The yet to…
Announced this weekend at the PlayStation Experience among all of the new trailers for Final Fantasy VII Remake and Ni No Kuni 2 was a new offer for the PlayStation Now service that allows you to stream games on your PlayStation 4. Starting December 8th, the service will be discounted to $99 a year and eleven games from…
Rocksteady released their final game in the Arkham trilogy this year, but the studio behind 2013’s Batman: Arkham Origins is just beginning their work in the DC Universe. The studio behind Origins, as well as the Batgirl DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight titled A Matter of Family, are hiring for not one, but two, games in the DC Universe according to a hiring bulletin on their…
With all of the TV shows and movies coming out based on comic book nowadays, we’re starting to see a lot of crossovers from actors/actresses who have played characters in both the DC and Marvel Universe, and even in some cases like Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans, multiple characters from the same universe. The examples…
When it arrived in 2005, Batman Begins existed in the era of mid-2000’s super hero movies wherein the hero, or heroes, played all by themselves, examples being Spider-Man, X-Men, and Daredevil among a few others. Begins was a film that showed the world just how amazing a Batman film could be in the right hands,…
The relavitely new “Batman: Arkham” franchise is something of an anomloy in today’s video game climate. Normally when a game comes out it’s mere months, or in the case of Assassin’s Creed as of late, right after a new chapter comes out before you’re already hearing about the next installment arriving in a year’s time.…
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