How do you make something awesome, move it to arguably superior hardware, and then somehow make it worse?!! This is the case with Batman: Revenge of the Joker, a carbon copy of the excellent Batman: Return of the Joker on the NES. Walking into this game I had two assumptions: The first that this was going…
DC is in a unique position in that they can take the name “Batman” and plaster it on anything to sell it. The worst example of this being the recently released animated film “Batman: Assault on Arkham” where the caped crusader is a secondary character in a film that has his name in the title.…
Though is has been available digitally for a few weeks now, tomorrow you can take home the first ever film set in the world of the “Arkham” video game series, Batman: Assault on Arkham: If you’re deciding on which store you want to grab your copy at, bear in mind that if you pick up…
As you may or may not recall from my review of Batman: Return of the Joker on the NES, I liked it quite a bit. It was a complete package of great controls, graphics, and music that made it a little slice of classic NES heaven. Reason stood to believe then that a version of…
I never know what to expect when I get my hands on a Game Boy Advance version of a game that’s designed for a console. Sometimes you get a hidden gem, like X2: Wolverine’s Revenge, other times you get a complete dud, like Superman Returns. Batman: Vengeance doesn’t surpass its big brother on consoles, but…
This game. I’ve been waiting a llllloooonnng time to get my hands on this game. I remember seeing ads with screenshots in them for this game in issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly around the time it was coming out. I desperately wanted to play it and checked my local video store and gas stations to…
When the collective gaming world got their hands on Batman: Arkham Asylum in 2009, many praised it for being the Batman game they’ve always been waiting for. But, when you look at the character of Batman, you have to wonder why it exactly took so long to finally get it right. In many respects, the…
When the first trailer for Batman: Arkham Knight came out in March, it ended on the note that those who pre-ordered the title would be entitled to play as Harley Quinn: The trailer was also accompanied by a pre-order listing on the Gamestop website which indicated Quinn would be playable only in challenge maps: A different…
I’m surprised it’s taken this long for something like this to surface. Amazon Germany has posted a listing for a complete edition of last year’s Batman: Arkham Origins for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC to be released on August 21st. Though the listing doesn’t provide any details, one can safely assume it…
Yesterday marked one of the most important dates for super heroes in cinematic history: It was the 25th anniversary of the cinematic debut of Tim Burton’s Batman. That film was one of the progenitor super hero films, along with Richard Donner’s Superman, and it showed the world that The Dark Knight could be more than just a…
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