Batman: Arkham City - Penguin Trailer and Talia Al Ghul

Stana Katic announced that she would be playing Talia in the game a year ago, but her appearance hasn't been confirmed by WB and Rocksteady until now.

Follow the link if you need some background on Solomon Grundy or Talia Al Ghul.

Batman Arkham Asylum DLC maps

 So, I've been working on some of the DLC maps for Arkham Asylum. First is Totally Insane:
And I'm now ranked 65th on the Crime Alley map:

Gang Warfare on the Streets of Arkham City

I wrote this article for arkhamcity.co.uk. Preview here, follow the link for the rest. It's a great site, so if you aren't already a member register over there straight away!

As Arkham Asylum took many cues from comics such as Arkham Asylum: Living Hell and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, it appears that Arkham City will be taking many cues from the year-long No Man’s Land storyline. Following a massive earthquake that tore most of Gotham county to the ground, the city itself was deemed unsalvageable by the US Government and was sealed off from the rest of the country by a military blockade. Anyone found trying to enter or leave the new no man's land would be shot. Within the city boundaries were criminals, homeless, infirm, those who couldn't or refused to get out in time and those that stayed to protect them. Feudal states soon emerged, with 'gangs' showing fealty to a leader in return for food and protection. The leaders were the more charismatic criminals from Arkham, such as Penguin, Two-face, Scarface and the Joker. With limited resources and less-than-stable leaders the gangs were often at war to gain as much territory as possible.

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Arkham Asylum Batmobile from Hotwheels

Hotwheels are releasing the Batmobile from Batman: Arkham Asylum (last seen ramming Bane into Gotham river) this April.

I can't believe that this looks better than it did in the game. I did think that it looked too small in the game though.

Source: Gotham Knights Online

Batman: Arkham Asylum Leaderboards

With all the news of Batman: Arkham City that we've recieved this past week, I thought that I'd take a break from work and pop in Arkham Asylum. Rather than start a new story I went straight into the challenge rooms. After beating my previous personal bests on a few rooms, I went on to Rumble in the Jungle.

I've broken into the top 1000 (this is quite an acheivement considering that the rankings go up to 75,000). I would have had 5000 points more if only I was a little quicker on the counter in the last round; I let one hit in, kissing my Perfect Knight bonus goodbye.

Update:

I now have 7 challenge rooms ranked below 10,000 and 3 of them are below 1,000.

This is the only one that I have below 500:










Further Update:
My PS3 has me ranked at #1 for Shock and Awe Extreme, despite the fact that I only have 37,000ish points and the (surely must be hacked) highest score is 50,000,000+. Is this just my system playing up or has there been a glitch? PS3 users, let me know below.

Silent Knight Predator map