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News Batgirl's Kicking Butt in Batman: Arkham Knight This Month
Pow, whack
For the first time ever, Batgirl is going to be playable in Warner Bros.' Batman: Arkham franchise. The latest and final instalment in the critically acclaimed Rocksteady trilogy, Batman: Arkham Knight, is getting a story add-on that puts you in the cape of the aforementioned heroine. Entitled 'Batgirl: A Matter of Family', the...
News For Months, It Was 'Impossible' To Get Batman: Arkham Knight to Run on PS4
Quite the riddle
Batman: Arkham Knight runs well and looks great on the PlayStation 4 - it's also a pretty darn good game, to boot. But PC gamers haven't been so lucky, as the caped crusader's latest escapade has actually been removed from sale after it was deemed to be in an unacceptable state by publisher Warner Bros. Looking into what went so...
News Hooray, the Batman: Arkham Knight Leaderboards Are Back Up on PS4
Return to the night
A few days ago, just after the launch of Batman: Arkham Knight, it was discovered that the game's leaderboards were busted. Fortunately, the team over at Rocksteady's been working on fixing the issue, and a new patch that's available to download right now does just that. There is some bad news, though: any statistics or high...
Poll Which Batman: Arkham Game Is the Best?
Step from the shadows
That's right, we're going to ask that question - a question that has divided the gaming community ever since Batman: Arkham City launched all the way back in 2011. Which Batman: Arkham game is the best? It's safe to say that Batman: Arkham Asylum exceeded all expectations when it released in 2009, and the aforementioned sequel...
News Batman: Arkham Knight's PS4 Leaderboards Are Busted
Gotham's not-so greatest
Batman: Arkham Knight's probably not the first game that you'd think of when it comes to well integrated leaderboards, but we're actually quite fond of the way in which the title keeps track of both your progress through the campaign and your performance in AR Missions. At least we were, until they went offline. Like many,...
Guide How to Solve Every Riddle in Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4
Answers to E. Nigma's cunning conundrums
Riddle us this: how do you solve every riddle in Batman: Arkham Knight on the PlayStation 4? Gotham City's most putridly dressed puzzler is back in Rocksteady Studios' latest open world adventure, and he's brought a whole slew of conundrums with him to tax your grey matter. Fortunately, you won't need to flex...
First Impressions Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 Sure Is Fighting Fit
Alright on the Knight
Holy awkward release date, Batman – you contrary cowl connoisseur. There's probably a metaphor that Warner Bros was trying to convey to the games media when it dated Batman: Arkham Knight just days after E3 2015 – like, y'know how Bruce Wayne has to keep fighting to ensure that Gotham City's safe... Yeah, the public...
News Batman: Arkham Knight's Day One PS4 Patch Is Bigger Than Bane
But the game runs as smooth as butter on Sony's system
You'll need to set aside a bit of time before booting up Batman: Arkham Knight on the PlayStation 4 next week, as the game will launch alongside a hefty day one patch. Weighing in at around 3.5GB, the v1.01 update lists improved performance and stability fixes among its most notable tweaks...
Round Up Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 Reviews Are Bat Crazy
Bat to its best?
The fun never ends here at Push Square Towers. Yes, the lights may have been turned off at the LA Convention Centre, but Batman: Arkham Knight is right around the corner – and reviews for the hotly anticipated PlayStation 4 title are already starting to appear. You'll have to wait a little while longer for us to formulate our...
News The Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 Is Particularly Pretty
Slick in silver
Some of the official custom PlayStation 4 consoles have been pretty bad if you ask this author, but the Batman: Arkham Knight one bucks that trend. Sony's deployed an unboxing for the brand new bundle, and while it's a little overproduced, it should sell you on the system if you've been sitting indecisively on the fence. We've...
News Holy Cancellation, Batman! Arkham Knight's Batmobile Edition Dumped
Lost its wheel
Batman: Arkham Knight may be mere days away from release, but retailers are currently in the process of cancelling orders for the uber-expensive Batman: Arkham Knight Batmobile Edition. We've heard from one reader that his GAME order has been dumped, and both Eurogamer.net and NeoGAF seem able to corroborate the story. The exorbitant...
E3 2015 Batman: Arkham Knight Trailer Showcases Exclusive DLC
What do you fear?
Batman: Arkham Knight is right around the corner, but that hasn't stopped Sony from showing more of this conclusion to the trilogy at its E3 2015 conference. The trailer begins with Joker's body being cremated into ashes, but then the scene shifts to a small diner in the streets of Gotham, where we strangely get a first-person...
News People Are Already Playing Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4
Riddle us this: how did you get it?
Batman: Arkham Knight's not technically out until later in the month, but it looks like the street date has already been broken in some parts of the world. One user on the IGN message boards has posted an image of the game running on their PlayStation 4, along with snaps of the Blu-ray and box art. It's unclear...
News Dying Light, Mortal Kombat X, and The Witcher 3 Push Warner Bros to the Top Publisher Spot
Batman: Arkham Knight should keep the momentum going
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment is taking the spot of top dog in the first half of 2015, according to The NPD Group. Thanks to the likes of Dying Light, Mortal Kombat X, and the more recent The Witcher 3, the company has risen to be the top-grossing US gaming software publisher of 2015 thus...
News Things Get Meta as Batman Plays Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4
Several celebrities join the Dark Knight
Batman: Arkham Knight's at that point in its promotional cycle where Warner Bros is wheeling out celebrities to tell you just how awesome it is. This clip features several famous faces, including Neil Patrick Harris, Wiz Khalifa, and, er, Troy Baker. Kevin Conroy – who is Batman – is also shown busting...
News Batman: Arkham Knight Will Gobble Up a Huge Portion of Your PS4's Hard Drive
Give us some space
You may want to hold out for that 1TB PlayStation 4 after all, as Batman: Arkham Knight will eat up a significant chunk of hard drive space. IGN spotted that the game's pre-order page on the PlayStation Store states that you'll need 45.4GB of free space – which is presumably before obligatory day one patches have been added to...
News Another Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 Trailer? As You Wish, B-Man
The female boss
As part of a diabolical plot to extract the dollars from your wallet, Warner Bros is really turning up the Batman: Arkham Knight hype as we type [Smooth, Sammy - Ed]. Following on from today's Red Hood teaser, the publisher's now dropped a clip showing off Harley Quinn's exclusive story mission. The extra will be all yours if you...
News Here's Your First Look at Batman: Arkham Knight's Red Hood DLC
Hoodwinked
Batman: Arkham Knight has a borderline criminal number of pre-order incentives, and the Red Hood story expansion is just one of them. Available exclusively from GameStop in North America and GAME in the UK, the add-on will put you in control of the red headed rogue as part of a bonus chapter which promises to expand upon the story of...
News Batman: Arkham Knight Goes to War in PS4 Gameplay
Catch seven minutes of the Caped Crusader
We're now weeks away from the Bat Signal being fired up on your PlayStation 4, and Warner Bros is dropping gameplay trailers like they're going out of fashion. This new one – 'Time to Go to War' – deployed a little earlier in the week, but slipped through the cracks here at Push Square Towers. As such,...
News Evidence of Batman: Arkham PS4 Remaster Appears
Time to play a little game
Riddle us this: would you buy a Batman: Arkham Anthology for the PlayStation 4? We heard rumours regarding the hypothetical remaster earlier in the year, when the collection was "confirmed" by IGN Italy's supposed sources. However, now we have a little more evidence to feed into the Bat Computer, as one
News Unmask the Characters of Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4
Why so serious?
Rocksteady's really ramping up for the release of Batman: Arkham Knight on the PlayStation 4 next month, and it's deployed another behind-the-scenes video outlining the creation of some of the main character designs. In it, we get a closer look at the Dark Knight himself, as well as the titular Arkham Knight and Scarecrow. Lead...
News Batman: Arkham Knight's PS4 Commercial Is the Worst
We're cringing
Flippin' heck, Warner Bros – all you needed to do was splice together a couple of clips of the Caped Crusader kicking goons in the gob and your Batman: Arkham Knight commercial would be complete. So, what in the name of the Joker is this? The commercial has leaked onto YouTube today and is coming from an unofficial channel so is...
News It's Two for the Price of One in Batman: Arkham Knight PS4
More fun with friends
Rocksteady Studios made an almost perfect Batman game on its first attempt, so it must have been tough for the British developer to try and improve on that in subsequent sequels. Batman: Arkham City amplified the whole affair, tossing in more side missions than the previous instalment and building a much bigger playpen for you...
News Meet the Complex Cast of Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4
Star power
Batman: Arkham Knight is now on the final straight ahead of its hotly anticipated 23rd June release, and to celebrate, developer Rocksteady Studios has deployed a brand new trailer introducing some of the cast from the forthcoming PlayStation 4 foray. In it, we get a good look behind the mask, as voice actor Kevin Conroy records a few...
News Batgirl Will Be Playable with Arkham Knight's Extortionate Season Pass
Girl power
Perhaps clocking the overwhelmingly negative response to Batman: Arkham Knight's steep Season Pass, developer Rocksteady Studios has released a full rundown of the kind of content that you can expect to scoop as part of the £32.99/$39.99 six month subscription. Top of the billing is an all-new prequel story starring Batgirl, which will...
News Holy Money Spinner, Batman! Arkham Knight Season Pass Announced
The business model we deserve
Welcome to the world of AAA video games, where you can comfortably pay upwards of $120 on a single title – before it's even released. It would be naive to expect a blockbuster on the scale of Batman: Arkham Knight to shun nefarious money spinning opportunities on the side – and lo and behold, Rocksteady Studios has...
News Batman: Arkham Knight's PS4 Trailer Double Teams Gotham's Goons
All who follow you
Batman: Arkham Knight's brooding protagonist may cut an introverted figure, but this brand new trailer for the forthcoming PlayStation 4 foray proves that justice is best served in pairs. The clip shows the big-eared hero fighting alongside Robin, Nightwing, and Catwoman – and appears to allude to tag-team attacks. Co-op is yet...
News Catwoman Gets Her Claws Out in Batman: Arkham Knight Teaser Trailer
Goggle box
Oh, right – we're doing these at the weekend, as well? Hot on the heels of yesterday's Azrael teaser trailer, Rocksteady Studios has dropped a fresh Batman: Arkham Knight clip showing Catwoman's bangs flapping in the Gotham breeze. You can look forward to the full reveal next week.
News Oh Great, Now Batman: Arkham Knight's Got a Nothing Trailer, Too
Bat out of Azrael
It must be catching: hot on the heels of Just Cause 3's announcement of an announcement, Rocksteady Studios has now deployed a Batman: Arkham Knight teaser trailer. This one's supposed to be all cryptic, hinting at the return of an iconic character from the Arkhamverse. Spoilers: it's Azrael. You can see the full thing on Monday...
News Adam West Will Be Fighting Crime First in Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4
Bam, there it is
Sony's marketing arrangement with Batman: Arkham Knight has already spawned a swish silver system, but the Japanese giant's also locked up some "exclusive" content for the upcoming release. This will, of course, be timed – and an image uploaded on Amazon.com explains that that will remain the case "until at least Fall 2015"...
News Eat Crow with PS4's Exclusive Batman: Arkham Knight Content
Gotham's burning
Sony's third-party partnerships have been really fruitful so far this generation, and it looks like it'll be continuing that good run through 2015. Fresh from announcing Batman: Arkham Knight's slick silver format, the manufacturer's also deployed some footage from the PlayStation 4's forthcoming exclusive Scarecrow missions. They...
News The Batman: Arkham Knight Bundle Unmasks a Silver PlayStation 4
A console fit for Bruce himself
It looks as though Sony's really throwing its weight around with its Batman: Arkham Knight partnership deal, as evidenced by this stylish PlayStation 4 bundle. Featuring a sleek silver PS4 console complete with a Batman design, a copy of the game, exclusive DLC, and a great looking DualShock 4 controller, it's a...
News Batman: Arkham Knight Evens the Odds with 7 Minutes of Brand New Gameplay
Explosive results
It's all getting a bit dark today isn't it? After news that Batman: Arkham Knight's release date has been delayed, there's now seven minutes of new gameplay stalking the streets of YouTube. Showcasing the Batmobile, the caped crusader's swooping prowess, and some fast paced combat, the trailer provides a good look at the Bat's...
News Batman: Arkham Knight Delays Its Vigilante Justice on PlayStation 4
Swooping slightly out of sight
We're sure that this won't go down well with some particularly hardcore Gothamites. Batman: Arkham Knight, the latest in the critically acclaimed Batman Arkham games, has been delayed - but only by a couple of weeks. Originally slated to release worldwide on the 2nd June, the Dark Knight's adventure will now begin on...
Rumour Holy Remaster, Batman! Arkham Duo Set to Swoop onto PS4
Why so serious?
Batman: Arkham Knight may be months away from completing Rocksteady's dark take on the Caped Crusader, but it seems like Warner Bros has got a remaster lined up to give you your comic book fill this Christmas. According to a report on IGN Italy – citing "reliable sources" – Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City will be...
News The ESRB Unmasks Batman: Arkham Knight's Mature Rating
Sequel sounds gritty
Batman's gone a bit bloody in the upcoming Arkham sequel, Batman: Arkham Knight. Last month, game director Sefton Hill stated that the release had been awarded an M rating by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which understandably came as a bit of a shock to many would-be buyers. At the time, Hill pinned the reasoning on...
News Batman: Arkham Knight's New PS4 Trailer Has a Plan
"Over my dead body"
Hot on the heels of this morning's mature rating, Warner Bros has released a two minute story trailer for the rapidly approaching Batman: Arkham Knight. In it, we see a ragtag group of Gotham's villains – including Scarecrow, Penguin, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and more – all plotting to take down our big eared pal. We've got...
News PS4's Batman: Arkham Knight Will Take You to Some 'Dark Places'
Gloomy Gotham
Batman: Arkham Knight will take its titular hero to some "dark places", according to game director Sefton Hill. This follows confirmation that the release has been awarded an M rating by US ratings board ESRB, meaning that it's intended for players aged 17 or over only. However, the executive insists that the studio won't be going...
Review LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (PlayStation 4)
Bat to basics
The LEGO series has been on a roll lately, with multiple high scoring titles over the past 12 months or so. The question is: does LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham have what it takes to topple the others – or should it have simply stayed in the shadows? Contrary to LEGO game tradition, the story in this edition is fairly forgettable...
News Batman: Arkham Knight's PS4 Exclusive Scarecrow Pack Will Make You Afraid of the Dark
Dream cleaver
The psychological Scarecrow missions were one of the best aspects of Batman: Arkham Asylum, so it’s exciting to learn that they’ll be making a comeback in Batman: Arkham Knight – exclusively on the PlayStation 4. The trailer embedded below reveals the third and final part of the Ace Chemicals infiltration mission that Warner Bros...
News Batman: Arkham Knight's Latest PS4 Trailer Twists Metal
Car combat
Twisted Metal maker David Jaffe would be proud of this latest Batman: Arkham Knight trailer, which follows on from last week’s clip and shows the Caped Crusader kicking ass in the Batmobile. To be honest, this is nowhere near as impressive as its predecessor, but we do get a good look at some of the vehicle’s unique abilities, as it...
News The Dark Knight Rises in New Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 Gameplay Trailer
Arkham believe it
Batman: Arkham Knight has been hiding out in Wayne Towers for a little longer than we would have liked of late, so it’s nice to see the PlayStation 4 superhero sequel score over three minutes of brand new gameplay footage. This is the first of three clips, with the final trailer to be shown during Sony’s keynote at its...
News Batman: Arkham Knight Aiming for Visual Parity on PS4 and Xbox One
Quick, everyone in the Bat Cave
Here’s a quick public relations lesson for developers: don’t, under any circumstances, use the word ‘parity’ when talking about the different versions of your game. NeoGAF has already hired a lynch mob to take down British studio Rocksteady, as it’s indicated that it’s targeting equality across all...
News Batman: Arkham Knight Will Swoop onto PS4 Exclusively in Japan
Platform holder pounces
Capping off what must be a particularly rough week for Xbox’s team in Japan, Warner Bros has announced that Batman: Arkham Knight will be a PlayStation 4 exclusive in the Land of the Rising Sun. There’s no word just yet on whether this will be timed, but the title has been removed completely from Microsoft’s website,...
News Batman: Arkham Knight Removes Its Cloak on PS4 from 2nd June
Be the Batman
Despite originally being pegged for October, the PlayStation 4 will be forced to wait until 2nd June for the Dark Knight to spring into action. Warner Bros has revealed that Batman: Arkham Knight will deploy on the aforementioned date on Sony’s next-gen super machine, occupying that increasingly popular summer slot just prior to E3...
Gamescom 2014 The Clouds Won't Clear in New Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 Screens
Brooding in the rain
Batman remained very much cloaked and undercover during Sony’s big Gamescom 2014 press conference earlier this week, but that doesn’t mean that the Caped Crusader hasn’t left a symbol of his ever presence. British studio Rocksteady has dropped a handful of Batman: Arkham Knight screenshots to remind you that the title is...
News Final Fantasy Designer's Batman Character Almost Appeared in a Game
Wayne to go
Remember that ostentatious Batman figure created by Final Fantasy character designer Tetsuya Nomura? Well, it almost featured in a game. Speaking with Siliconera at the San Diego Comic-Con overnight, the auteur revealed that he originally started work on the flamboyant adaptation of the Dark Knigh
Weirdness Final Fantasy Meets Batman with This New Play Arts Figure
Super Batmechman Ultimate
Love him or hate him, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts character designer and regular game director Tetsuya Nomura still boasts a lot of influence when it comes to giant Japanese publisher, Square Enix. So much so, that he's designed a new Play Arts Kai Batman figure in conjunction with DC Comics. To be totally honest,...
News Sony Details PS4 Exclusive Scarecrow Mission For Batman: Arkham Knight
Toxic stuff
Sony has revealed some details regarding the PlayStation-exclusive content for the forthcoming Batman: Arkham Knight. PS4 players will be able to take on the sinister Scarecrow, who is using his patented fear toxin to make Gotham even less welcoming than usual: Gotham falls victim to Scarecrow's fear toxin, transforming the famous...
Rumour Batman: Arkham Knight Is Stepping Out Of The Shadows In February 2015
According to Microsoft, anyway
The delay of Batman: Arkham Knight was a real disappointment — we hoped to be busting criminals as titular Dark Knight in 2014, rather than 2015. Publisher Warner Bros. has so far been reluctant to give us a solid release date for the title, but it would appear that Microsoft has gone ahead and done it anyway. On...
