Is A New Batman Arkham Game Announcement On The Horizon ?

Batman day was celebrated over the weekend for the 80th anniversary of the character. In celebration, WB Games Montreal released a video of the bat symbol projected on a building. During the video you’ll see symbols appear, then flash away. The tease implies this studio may be working on something new in the Batman universe. Check out the video for yourself in the tweet below. A popular theory is the symbols pointing to a secret society like the Court of Owls or League of Assassins. Thoughts ? Could the game be announced at Sony’s State of Play tomorrow ?

@WBGamesMTL is proud to celebrate Batman’s 80th anniversary with rest of the world during #BatmanDay #Batman80 pic.twitter.com/4VGz9kBWxj

— WB Games Montréal (@WBGamesMTL) September 22, 2019

Rocksteady Speaks Out About Skipping E3

Rocksteady, the developer of the Batman Arkham game series, has addressed its absence from E3 this year. Game director and co-founder of Rocksteady Studios Sefton Hill posted a message on Twitter acknowledging fans.

Hi all! I wanted to share a quick message from me and the Rocksteady team... pic.twitter.com/dlzIrACfcR

— Sefton Hill (@Seftonhill) June 14, 2018

Fans were expecting Rocksteady at E3 because of rumors regrading the development for a Superman or Justice League game.

Ports For Batman: Arkham Knight On Mac And Linux Have Been Cancelled

The Mac and Linux ports of Batman: Arkham Knight have been canceled. The cancellation was announced with a very short statement on Steam which you can see below:

“We are very sorry to confirm that Batman: Arkham Knight will no longer be coming to Mac and Linux. If you have pre-ordered Batman: Arkham Knight for Mac or Linux, please apply for a refund via Steam.”

The ports were set to release in Spring 2016. 

Batman: Arkham Knight Is Still Having Issues On PC

Batman: Arkham Knight has returned to Steam following its being taken down of bugs after its launch. Soon after the game returned, comments on Steam and Reddit reveal problems including stuttering, plummeting frame rates and freezing are still rife. Warner Bros. has acknowledged its failed to fix 2 bugs that plagued the game. A blog post warns players of a GPU issue affecting Windows 7 users that gappen after "extended gameplay sessions" and sees a hard drive paging issue occur. To solve this, you need to relaunch the game. The post also advises Windows 10 owners to have "at least 12GB of system RAM" in order to "operate without paging and provide a smoother gameplay experience." Warner Bros. just can’t catch a break with this game on PC. My question is why even release it back on Steam if they knew they had 2 more bugs to fix. What do you think ?

Batman: Arkham Knight Returns To Steam, Get The Other Arkham Games For Free

As Batman: Arkham Knight has returned to Steam for purchase, WB Games is currently running a promotion for those who have purchased the game. They will received a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY, Batman: Arkham Origns, Batman: Arkham City GOTY, and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate. The additional free games will be available to those who purchase a copy of Arkham Knight before November 16, so act fast. What do you think of Batman: Arkham Knight ? What do you think of this promotion ?

Batman: Arkham Knight For PC Is Returning To Steam This Week

Warner Bros. has announced that the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight will return to Steam on October 28. A patch will be released alongside the re-release bringing the PC version up to date with all the new content and features found in the console version. This includes Photo Mode, Big Head Mode, Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman Skin, and character selection in combat AR challenges. If you bought the season pass, you’ll find all the content released so far waiting for you, too. A full list of what will be available can be found in this Steam Community post. Better late than never I suppose, It once to finally see the PC version of the game come back so that PC players can enjoy a great game. What do you think ? 

Batman: Arkham Knight PC Version Going Back On Sale Later This Month

Warner Bros. has announced that the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight will return by the end of October. A post on the game's Steam page also confirms that all DLC that's been released for the console versions of the game will also be available when the game is back on Steam. Finally, for some this has been a long unnecessary journey and I’m glad that PC gamers will soon be able to enjoy this amazing game. What do you think ? 

Batman: Arkham Knight PC Patch Coming In A Few Weeks

The Batman: Arkham Knight PC issues are still around with the game's first interim patch is not likely to hit its target release of August. An update on Steam reveals the patch is going into testing and should be released "in the next few weeks.". Major fixes included in the patch are as listed below:

• Reduced frame rate hitches
• Optimized system memory and VRAM usage
• Improved performance on all GPUs (requires the latest drivers)
• Min Spec AMD GPU is once again the Radeon HD 7870 2GB
• More Robust In-Game Settings, including:
• Added the ability to change settings for Max FPS to 30/60/90
• Added toggles for Motion Blur, Chromatic Aberration, and Film Grain
• Added a “High” Texture Resolution value
• Added Texture Filtering option
• Added an Adaptive V-Sync option (NVIDIA only)
• Added VRAM Usage Meter
• Added Mouse Sensitivity Slider & Mouse Smoothing Option
• Fixed low resolution texture bugs
• Fixed hitches when running on mechanical hard drives (HDD)

Batman 1989 And More Available Now For Batman: Arkham Knight

Some new Batman: Arkham Knight DLC is now available, including much more than the promised Batsuit and Batmobile from the 1989 Michael Keaton film. The August DLC also brings the Bat Family costume pack and 2 race tracks inspired by Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns. The pack is included in the season pass, but also available for $1.99 individually. Later in the month, there will be a new Batmobile based on Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. This includes 2 additional race tracks. You’ll also get the original Arkham Asylum Batsuit along with a new story mission featuring Nightwing. You can download the DLC now. You can watch the trailer for the DLC below.

Batman: Arkham Knight On PC Is Getting A Patch In August

Warner Bros. has announced it plans to release a patch to fix some of the issues in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight. The patch was announced on the game's Steam page. "As an update, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Rocksteady and our partners are targeting an interim patch update for existing players to be released in August," the publisher wrote. "This update will address many of the issues we listed in our June 27 update. "We will provide additional details as we finalise that interim patch over the coming weeks. We would like to thank you for your continued patience and invaluable feedback. We are continuing to monitor and listen for any additional issues and are driving towards a full update for everyone as quickly as we possibly can." It’s nice to see a patch finally coming out for the game. Better late than never hopefully it makes the game playable on PC’s, everyone should be able to experience this amazing game. 

Batman: Arkham Knight To Stay Broken On PC Until September

Batman: Arkham Knight continues to have problems on PC and may not be fixed anytime soon, according to a leaked retailer memo. Kotaku Australia has reportedly seen an internal email sent to EB Games staff, which explains the game won't be fixed until the Australian Spring. "As previously advised, we have stopped sales of Batman: Arkham Knight PC while Warner and Rocksteady work on addressing performance issues with the game," it reads. "The latest information from Warner is that the updates won’t be available until Spring. Due to this we have made the difficult decision to recall all PC stock from stores to return to the vendor until an acceptable solution is released.” As we know the game was pulled from sale on Steam after reports of performance problems and missing graphical features arose when the game launched last month.  You gotta feel bad for PC gamers as this is just uncalled for and shouldn’t of happened in the first place. What do you think ? 

Wear Michael Keaton’s Batman Suit In Batman: Arkham Knight

There have been many film adaptations of Batman over the years. Michael Keaton was Batman in Tim Burton’s 1989 film and if you’re a Season pass holder you can play as Michael Keaton’s Batman in Arkham Knight. Also coming for season pass holders is the Bat-family skins pack. This includes 1990s Catwoman, One Year Later Robin, Arkham Origins Batman, the Iconic Grey & Black Batman, 1970s Batman, and the Original Arkham Nightwing. Both packs are coming in August.

Batgirl And Robin Team Up In A Matter Of Family DLC For Batman: Arkham Knight

The Joker has threatened to kill Commissioner Gordon if Batman shows up to help Batgirl. It looks like it’s up to her and Robin to save the Commissioner. You’ll be able to play this prequel story beginning on July 14 for season pass holders. You can also purchase it a la carte for $6.99 on July 21. The Batgirl DLC is developed by WB Montreal who also developed Batman: Arkham Origins,with the remainder of the add-on content under development at Rocksteady. You can watch the trailer below. 

Rocksteady Suspending PC Sales Of Batman: Arkham Knight

The PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight has been suffering from many issues, and in response Rocksteady is suspending sales of the game in order to get it fixed. Rocksteady had this to say about suspending sales of the game: “We want to apologize to those of you who are experiencing performance issues with Batman: Arkham Knight on PC. We take these issues very seriously and have therefore decided to suspend future game sales of the PC version while we work to address these issues to satisfy our quality standards.  We greatly value our customers and know that while there are a significant amount of players who are enjoying the game on PC, we want to do whatever we can to make the experience better for PC players overall”. Rocksteady suggests requesting a refund through Steam, or wherever else you’ve purchased the game. This suspension shouldn't affect those who already own the game. It's unclear when the PC version of the game will be available for sale again. It’s nice to see WB and Rocksteady take responsibility for the PC version of the game. Unlike other developers that will let PC version stay released and over time patch. My example would be Grand Theft Auto V for PC. Some gamers (Including myself) are still having issues with the game and it was release in April of this year. How do you think WB and Rocksteady are handling the situation ? 

Game Releases For The Week Of June 22

Here are the games that will be release this week. This week I’m looking forward to playing Batman: Arkham Knight. Batman: Arkham Knight is the final chapter in the Batman Arkham series by Rocksteady. Can wait to play it, to me it looks like the proper way to do a final chapter of a game. What game are you excited to play this week ? 

June 23

Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4, Xbox One, PC) 

Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition (PS4, Xbox One, PC) 

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward (PS4, PS3, PC) 

Planetside 2 (PS4) 

Ride (PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC) 

Tales from the Borderlands Episode 3: Catch a Ride (PS4,PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, iOS, Android)

June 25

Art Academy: Home Studio (Wii U) 

Fort Meow (PC, iOS) 

Sonic Runners (iOS, Android)

Toukiden: Kiwami (PC)

Batman: Arkham Knight To Have 3.5 GB Day One Patch

Batman: Arkham Knight's release’s tomorrow and the game will launch with a day one patch. The patch includes various improvements and fixes for the action game and will be 3.5 GB in file size. Here’s whats included in the patch : 

• Improved Performance
• Stability Fixes
• New feature: Rival Points
• New feature: Original Batsuit skin available to select
• Support for "A Matter Of Family" additional content (preorder-exclusive prequel DLC)
• General gameplay, graphical, audio, UI, and localization fixes

The Red Hood Gets A Trailer For Batman Arkham Knight

The Red Hood will be a part of Batman Arkham Knight,  the Red Hood story pack is a pre-order bonus at GameStop.  In this brief trailer for a story pack for Red Hood, you'll see how the Red Hood deals with his issues. Batman Arkham Knight is out on June 23 on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Play As Harley Quinn In Batman Arkham Knight

Batman: Arkham Knight will be out very soon and we’ve heard for a while now that Harley Quinn will be playable for those that pre-order the game. Now we get to see her in action in the trailer below. Batman: Arkham Knight will be out on June 23 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

GameFly Lauches GameFly Streaming

Today the video game rental company GameFly announced GameFly Streaming, a cloud based, Netflix like subscription program for games. GameFly also revealed today that it had acquired streaming service Playcast, whose technology will power GameFly Streaming. According to the companies report, GameFly's new streaming program will offer bundles of games for a fixed price, which will start at $7 a month. There are 6 bundles currently available, each containing 7 games focused around a particular theme. One bundle offers LEGO games, while another comes with adventure games such as Darksiders II and Batman Arkham titles. GameFly Streaming also offers a "gamer pack" that comes with 16 games for $10 a month. An interesting factor about GameFly Streaming is available only for Amazon Fire TV as of now. The Amazon Fire TV is only $100 were as a gaming console can cost up to $500 (if you include accessories) and a PC can cost even more then that. Does GameFly Streaming seem intestine to you ? Is this better tun buying a games console ? 

Play As Batgirl For The First Time In Batman: Arkham Knight

The Batman: Arkham Knight season pass will cost $40 (there is also a $99 digital premium edition that includes the game and the season pass), and will add content to the game for 6 months following the release. It would include skins, challenge maps, and race tracks, and it hinted at story missions and additional villains. Now, we know exactly what will be included.The season pass will feature Batgirl: A Matter of Family and will let players play as Batgirl for the first time in a prequel campaign that will take place in an entirely new location. The Season of Infamy casts players as Batman with "legendary super-villains invading Gotham City, with new story arcs, missions and gameplay features." Gotham City Stories has players playing as an assortment of Batman's allies in story missions that take place before and after the events of Arkham Knight. You will also get to play with different Batmobiles from Batman's 75-year history on tracks themed to specific Batman eras. Finally, you will also gain access to assorted skins and challenge maps. Are you excited for Batman: Arkham Knight ?