- Get up to 90% off Mortal Kombat, Batman, and more in big WB Steam sale - 20 October 2023
From the Batman Arkham games and Gotham Knights to Mortal Kombat, DC fighting game Injustice, Lego Lord of the Rings, Shadow of Mordor, horror classics FEAR, Harry Potter RPG Hogwarts Legacy, and even Back 4 Blood, the Left 4 Dead spiritual successor from former makers Turtle Rock, there's a lot in the Warner Bros catalog, and you can grab many of them at huge discounts of up to 90% off right now, so move quickly and grab these bargains. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: PC Game Pass now gives your friends a free trial Back 4 Blood updates end, just as things are getting good Back 4 Blood expansion River of Blood is out now
- Cancelled Daredevil game footage shows what might've been a PS2-era Arkham Asylum - 11 November 2020
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear was in development in the early 2000s for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PC, and was cancelled well before it saw the light of day. A handful of trailers are out there, and it was the subject of a documentary video from Unseen64 a few years back, but now a newly-revealed development build shows a much clearer picture of what might've been. Archivist Andrew Broman has posted ten minutes of footage from the cancelled Daredevil game, and it's remarkable how much it predicts features we'd eventually see in games like the Batman: Arkham series. Batman's detective vision, for example, is here - though in this case it represents Daredevil's heightened non-vision senses. The build this footage draws from is clearly very early - only a handful of levels are textured and properly playable, and the game's packed with awkward animations and poorly-implemented game mech…
- Rocksteady confirms it is working on a Suicide Squad game - 7 August 2020
Rocksteady has confirmed an earlier Eurogamer report it is working on a Suicide Squad game. In a tweet showing an image of a decrepit-looking Superman with a target on his head, the Batman Arkham developer revealed the Suicide Squad game will be announced on 22nd August, during the DC Fandome event. In June, Eurogamer's Tom Phillips rubber-stamped a domain name-fuelled rumour that Rocksteady was working on a game centred on DC's Suicide Squad. Read more
- Five of the Best: Game Over screens - 29 May 2020
Five of the Best is a weekly series about the small details we rush past when we're playing but which shape a game in our memory for years to come. Details like the way a character jumps or the title screen you load into, or the potions you use and maps you refer back to. We've talked about so many in our Five of the Best series so far. But there are always more. Five of the Best works like this. Various Eurogamer writers will share their memories in the article and then you - probably outraged we didn't include the thing you're thinking of - can share the thing you're thinking of in the comments below. Your collective memory has never failed to amaze us - don't let that stop now! Today's Five of the Best is... Read more
- Warner Bros. is teasing the new Batman video game again - 9 January 2020
Warner Bros. is teasing the new Batman video game again, this time with another cryptic image published to social media. The WB Games Montreal Twitter page published the image, below, which shows a third of the complete image. Another piece was published to the studio's Facebook page. Read more
- Five of the Best: Caves - 13 December 2019
Each week, Five of the Best gives love to the overlooked parts of games. The things you don't notice when you're playing because you're too busy doing more important things. But you remember them. They're there in your memory all the same. So much so that when someone says something like, "Which are the best caves in games?" Some immediately spring to mind. So: which are the best caves in games? Let's give it a try, shall we? I've been caving - spelunking - before, back when I was a teenager, and I'm not sure I could do it now. I remember having to swim in icy cold water under a stalactite and shimmy along tunnel-like passages. I don't know how I did it - it gives me the shivers just thinking about it now. Read more
- Have You Played Batman: Arkham Knight? - 7 June 2017
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Maybe it’s the E3 scent in the air or maybe it’s just that I’m craving some big budget biffing, but I’m missing my favourite Multiple-A franchises right now. The Arkham games in particular. Oh, to be the bat-like man once more. …
- The 25 Best Stealth Games On PC - 17 November 2015
Below you will find the 25 best stealth games ever released on PC. There are sneaking missions, grand thefts, assassinations, escapes and infiltrations. Stay low, keep quiet and we’ll make it to the end. …
- Have You Played Batman: Arkham Asylum? - 16 July 2015
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I grew quickly weary of Batman: Arkham City and initially had no interest in Batman: Arkham Knight, but that game being released and then unreleased left me thinking about and eventually longing for the Bat. Batman: Arkham Asylum , the first in the series, is where I choose to return. It’s still a remarkable game. …
- Best Steam Summer Sale Deals: Day 8 - 18 June 2015
What are the best Steam Summer Sale deals? Each day for the duration of the sale, we’ll be offering our picks – based on price, what we like, and what we think more people should play. Read on for the five best deals from day 8 of the sale . …
- A history of Batman in video games - 5 March 2014
Batman: Arkham Knight is Rocksteady's third and final foray into the Arkham universe. While the Arkhamverse has been going strong for four years, the Caped Crusader has a long history in games. Today, we look back at some of the noteworthy moments of the Dark Knight in video games.
- Wayne Good Deals: Latest Humble Bundle Is Positively Batty - 5 November 2013
Bruce Wayne, billion dollar playboy who was recently declared Least Likely Man On Earth To Be Batman (Of The Year) by Time magazine, is at it again. He’s teamed with a gaming storefront known as the Humble Bundle to sell games largely focused on Batman for no specific reason . The proceeds of a pay-what-you-want bundle that includes that likes of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City will go toward a sprawling tunnel-based weapons facility beneath Gotham charities and game developers. (more…)
- Humble WB Bundle offering Batman and F.E.A.R. games for African hunger charity - 5 November 2013
The Humble Bundle is offering another spate of PC games, this time a collection of WB Games properties for charity. Appropriately enough, a portion of proceeds will go towards DC Comics' We Can Be Heroes charity, which combats the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa by selling branded superhero merch.
- Batman’s Ditched GFWL, But Say Goodbye To Your Saves - 19 October 2013
Even when villains are given a good, hard KAPOWTHWACKBIFFZOTT-ing and the day is saved, Batman stories rarely end on entirely happy notes. Thus, it’s almost sort of fitting that Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City haven’t escaped Games For Windows Live’s years-long countdown to self-destruction entirely unscathed. Yes, they’re finally free of Microsoft’s arbitrary, ages-behind-the-times shackles, but your save files, amazingly, won’t be making the jump to Steam. Kinda justifies some of those fears we’ve had about these DRM systems for all this time, huh? You know, the ones companies like Microsoft tried to reassure us about by promising that they’d never leave us without the things we worked so hard to buy and earn? (more…)
- 2K Yanks GFWL From Bioshock 2, Brings DLC To Steam - 4 October 2013
Small victories are important. Games For Windows Live has been minced into a fine paste and sent off to a major supermarket chain as a horse meat substitute, but the effects of it are still being felt. Most games are still saddled with the client, and it takes an act of will on the part of the publishers to swab that canker sore. 2K did that to BioShock 2 last night. All traces of the client have been yanked out of the Steam version, with the publisher adding joypad and Big Picture support in, as well as bringing the DLC to Steam for you to buy (so it’s not totally altruistic). It’s the first time Minerva’s Den can be bought anywhere but the GFWL marketplace. (more…)
- Batman: Arkham Allegations - 12 February 2013
We may be in for a third Batscapade from the Arkhamverse, according to Warner suits in the company’s latest earnings call, and it’ll probably be this year too. There’s almost nothing to go on, other than Warner’s Chief Financial Officer John K. Martin letting slip that “and we also have a strong games release this year, which will include the next release in the Batman Arkham franchise.” This means it’s up to us to let slip the dogs of speculation. (more…)
- Writer of Arkham City Won’t Be Back for the Next Batman Game - 2 August 2012
Part of what's made Rocksteady's two Batman video games such great experiences has been the pitch-perfect stories players encountered in each. The narrative contributions in both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City came Paul Dini, who's written excellent Batman stories for TV and film as well. But it seems that Dini may not be returning for the rumored prequel supposedly due out in 2014 . Kinda hoped I'd be doing another Arkham game in London during the Olympics.Esp, as I had a good source for tx.Ah, well. — Paul_Dini (@Paul_Dini) July 27, 2012 In tweets cited in an ArkhamCity.co.uk post, Dini says that he didn't even know about the alleged third Bat-game until recently. He also says that Arkham City was his last foray into Rocksteady's Batman video game universe. Of course, with the alleged game two years out, there may still be a chance that Dini could contribute to the inevitable Ark…
- Batman? Cole Phelps? Bah! Give Us a Real Detective Game - 5 January 2012
While games like L.A. Noire and Batman: Arkham Asylum put on a good detective show, are we really detecting anything? Commenter Soleyu describes what a true detective game should be like in today's elementary edition of Speak Up on Kotaku. I just read about the Sherlock Holmes Series and I'm reminded about my greatest gripe with detective games, you are not ever really a detective. Now granted I haven't played L.A. Noire yet but up to this point every game which has "detective" elements boils down to get item, use item. I mean a true detective in the style of great novels and mysteries (especially those in the mold of Sherlock Holmes) would you know, deduce stuff. Like for example the detective finds a clue, let's say a small statue, and then if the statue is an antique and there are other antiques there from the same period one could think that our mystery man is a connoisseur and coll…
- Holy Sale: Warner Steam Bundle Is A Bit Good - 20 December 2011
Edit: We’re reading below that lots of regions outside the UK are being charged a really very much larger sum. Which sucks. Valve will always insist prices are decided by publishers, so yell at Warner. There’s also confusion over the inclusion of Arkham City and War In The North – to be absolutely clear, the Warner Complete Pack definitely currently includes those games, whether by design or mistake. It also seems that some regions can’t see the deal at all. The solution: move to the UK. I’m never quite sure whether posting about the Steam sale is doing mindless promotion for the company, or alerting our readers to amazing prices for games. I’m going with the latter in this instance, because bloody hell, this one took me by surprise. Not boasted of on the front page of Steam’s decidedly confusing sales page (not including the names of the games…
- The Delayed Knight: Arkham 2 PC Slips - 8 November 2011
It was rumoured, and then it was confirmed, and then we were all like :( For it is true: the man of bats will not strike back on PC in 10 days’ time, but instead in 17 days’ time. A small wait, perhaps, but we’ve already had to hang on for almost a month later than the console-folk. Yes, the already-delayed Batman: Arkham City PC port, mooted to be the very bestest version of Brucie-boy’s semi-open-world swinging adventures thanks to various technical jiggery-pokery done with the help of NVIDIA, has been delayed anew. November 25 is the new date, which at least is safely after all Big Three of November’s remaining new releases – MW3, Skyrim, Saints Row 3 – are all done and dusted and we’ll have time to think about something else/sleep. There’s no word on why the PC version was delayed, and what the state of play will be for the vario…
