According to "sources close to the game", the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum has been pushed back from its planned June release date to sometime later in the year. Speaking with Game Informer, the sources reckon the game will instead ship in the "fourth quarter of 2009". Apparently neither of the game's co-publishers, Eidos or Warner Bros., were willing to comment, which is interesting.
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Fresh word from the GameStop expo in Las Vegas is that Mark Hamill, voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and face of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, will have a starring role in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. The role? The Joker, naturally. Hamill will bring his finely tuned maniacal giggle to the Rocksteady Games developed release that was announced last month by way of Game Informer.
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Eidos' head of UK marketing Jon Brooke doesn't mince words. Speaking to MCV, Brooke extolled Batman's many virtues in a bombastic fashion sure to leave his fellow marketing professionals sweating, shaking, and reaching for a cigarette. "It's as close to perfect as we've ever come, it looks amazing, plays beautifully and has a rich twisting storyline with enormous replayability."
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Our first look at Poison Ivy in motion offers a peek at how Eidos and Batman: Arkham Asylum developer Rocksteady have interpreted the 43-year-old character.
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Santa Eidos has delivered 10 new screenshots for Batman: Arkham Asylum just in time for Christmas, proving that allowing The Joker into the community gangs outreach program might have been a bad idea. You'd figure that a place like Arkham Asylum would have figured out that letting prisoners mingle enough to form strong gang-based loyalties was a bad idea, but here we are, with screen-after-screen of Batman battling muscled goons in clown makeup.
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It appears as though the PS3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum will be getting exclusive levels that allow you to play as The Joker.Eidos, the publishers of the game, have in fact confirmed the proclamation that PS3-exclusive content will contain Challenge Maps - levels in the game that you can attempt multiple times in order to complete and get the best score – that feature The Joker as a playable character. These levels will be available as downloadable content.
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