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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League pulled offline after a bizarre game-beating bug
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was pulled offline an hour after launch due to a bug that completes the entire story as soon as you start playing. Rocksteady is performing maintenance on the servers to fix the issue.
'Batman: Arkham Trilogy' is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 13th
Batman: Arkham Trilogy — which includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Knight and the expansions for all three games — will land on Nintendo Switch on October 13th.
'Batman: Arkham Trilogy' comes to Switch this fall
The classic 'Batman: Arkham Trilogy' is coming to the Nintendo Switch this fall.
'Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League' is delayed until February 2nd, 2024
'Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League' was supposed to arrive in late May, but Warner Bros. Games and Rocksteady have delayed it by an additional eight months.
‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’ reportedly delayed yet again
Warner Bros. has reportedly delayed Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League yet again. Rocksteady’s long-awaited spinoff / sequel to the Batman: Arkham series was most recently slated to launch on May 26; it’s now coming “later this year.”
Rocksteady's Suicide Squad game (hopefully) arrives May 26th, 2023
Rocksteady is now set to release its 'Suicide Squad' game in May 2023, with Kevin Conroy reprising his role as Batman one last time.
Rocksteady delays 'Suicide Squad' game to 2023
Rocksteady has delayed its long-in-the-making 'Suicide Squad' game to spring 2023.
'Suicide Squad' game trailer shows why you'll take down the Justice League
Rocksteady and Warner Bros. have shared a story trailer for the 'Suicide Squad' game that explains just why you must take down the Justice League.
Rocksteady's new 'Suicide Squad' game is all about killing Superman
DC's ragtag band of villains will be taking on the Justice League in Rocksteady's new game, out in 2022.
Rocksteady teases 'Suicide Squad' game ahead of August 22nd event
Rocksteady will share more details about a 'Suicide Squad' game on August 22nd.
'Batman: Arkham Knight' returns to PC on October 28th
Months after Warner Bros. yanked the PC port of Batman: Arkham Knight to tackle its many launch day glitches, it's ready for take two. The publisher has announced that Rocksteady's game will return to Steam on October 28th at 10AM Pacific, or 1PM Eastern. The re-launch will also include a patch that brings PC players up to speed on features that are available on all console versions (such as Photo Mode and the Arkham Asylum skin), and anyone with a Season Pass will catch up on downloadable content. It's too soon to say if this will be the Batman game you were expecting this spring, but it should be much closer to the intended vision.
'Batman: Arkham Knight' for PC should be less broken now
Batman: Arkham Knight was supposed to be the perfect swansong for Rocksteady's Dark Knight trilogy. While the game was received positively on PS4 and Xbox One, the PC version was a mess -- so bad, in fact, that Warner Bros. eventually pulled it completely. That was in June and only now, 10 weeks later, are PC players getting a patch that should fix the most glaring issues. The new update claims to solve the game's fluctuating frame rate, while also improving its overall performance on all GPUs. Warner Bros. says it'll also remedy any low resolution textures and add a deeper set of in-game settings for you to play with. If you were hoping to buy the game now that's in a better state, bad news -- Arkham Knight is still unavailable to purchase on Steam. Perhaps that's an indication of where the game now stands -- better than before, but still a little way from what PC players deserve.
JXE Streams: talking family with Batgirl in 'Arkham Knight'
Even if your only exposure to the Batman mythos is through the excellent Arkham series of games by developer Rocksteady, (especially the latest, Arkham Knight) you're pretty familiar with Commissioner Gordon's daughter, Barbara. She's one of the constant voices in The Dark Knight's ear, and with the recent release of Knight's first downloadable episode we finally get to step into her shoes as Batgirl as she goes up against The Joker. How's it all play out? Your guess is as good as mine because I'm going in totally blind on PlayStation 4 starting at 6 pm Eastern / 3 pm Pacific.
Batman: Arkham Knight's Batgirl trailer looks better than the full game
Who would have thought that the best way to improve Rocksteady's series of blockbuster Batman games would be to get rid of the caped crusader himself? Anybody who's watched the trailer for Batman: Arkham Knight's first DLC pack, that's who. The teaser for Batgirl: A Matter of Family pits Barbara Gordon (Batgirl herself) against Gotham's greatest villain in a high-stakes, action packed thriller. The Joker is holding her father captive, and if Batman shows up, he dies.
Batgirl joins 'Batman: Arkham Knight' on July 14th
Gotham, get ready. The first bit of DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight stars Batgirl, and it's due to hit PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 14th for $7 in North America (£5.80 in the UK). This is a story-based expansion called Batgirl: A Matter of Family, Gamespot reports, and it puts players in Batgirl's badass boots with new missions, side quests, a fresh hacking feature and Dual Play with Robin. A Matter of Family is the first installment in Arkham Knight's bulk-DLC season pass program, so anyone who purchased that will get the add-on at no additional charge.
'Batman: Arkham Knight' is a fun distraction, but it's not Batman
Neon green and red lights flash as Batman maneuvers the Batmobile through loop de loops in a gaudy underground racetrack. On the streets of Gotham, giant, bulbous tanks strafe around each other shooting at the speeding Bat-vehicle as it tries to escape. Onscreen, a computer-animated Alfred appears and gets snippy with master Bruce. This is a description of the things I did in a demo of Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight, due out this June on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. And if any of the above sounds a whole hell of a lot like the camp film Batman & Robin, well, that's because it's eerily similar. If you were a fan of that Joel Schumacher-directed 1997 nipple fest or the open-world distractions of the 2011 video game Arkham City, then that gameplay might sound pretty awesome. But for a fan of Batman: Arkham Asylum like myself, however, this sample of Arkham Knight was disconcerting.
See the 'Batman: Arkham Knight' Dual Play mode in action
And we do mean action. Dual Play in Batman: Arkham Knight allows one player to swap between Batman and a trusty sidekick during fights. For example, if you're battling a room full of nasty baddies as Batman, the AI will be in control of Nightwing -- until you switch characters, at which point the AI takes over Batman and you become Nightwing. There's also a special called the "super-combo takedown" that builds up as you fight and instantly KOs enemies in a Batman-sidekick one-two punch. "If you're building your combo with Batman and you see that there's an enemy over by Nightwing you want to take out, you can switch to Nightwing, you keep your combo, and if you've got your special charged up you can instantly use your super-combo takedown on that foe," Lead AI Programmer Tim Hanagan says in the Dual Play demo video embedded below.
Limited edition 'Batman' PlayStation 4 scratches that superhero itch
If you missed out on that coveted 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4, don't fret: there's another special-run model coming soon. Sony has unveiled a limited edition Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 bundle that gives you a "steel grey" console emblazoned with the Caped Crusader's silhouette alongside the matching controller and, of course, the game. You'll want to pre-order the $450 pack quickly if you want to stand a chance of getting it on its June 23rd launch day, but there is a standard $400 bundle if you're either late to the party or are more interested in saving Gotham than showing off.
Batman glides into Arkham Knight gameplay trailer
Warner Bros. offered the first in a series of three gameplay trailers for Batman: Arkham Knight today, showing the caped superhero rescuing workers from a chemical plant. Found after the break, the video features a healthy dose of gliding and Batmobile action, as well as some good old-fashioned ass-kicking by the dark knight. Batman: Arkham Knight will launch on June 2, 2015 for PS4, Xbox One and PC. The final installment in Rocksteady's Arkham trilogy was delayed this past June. The game is "five times larger," and is set one year after the events of Batman: Arkham City, the developer's 2011 entry in the series. With a little help from the developer, diligent players recently unearthed an Easter egg in Arkham City with a special message from Calendar Man. [Image: WBIE]
Three years later, Calendar Man reveals Arkham City easter egg
Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham City has an easter egg that even "The World's Greatest Detective" (AKA: Batman) might have struggled to find, players have discovered. A recent YouTube video from the channel "Batman Arkham Videos" (embedded above) has revealed a secret message in Arkham City that not only went undiscovered for three years, but required developer intervention to discover. Turns out, if you set your Xbox 360, PS3 or PC's clock to December 13, 2004 - the day Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker founded Rocksteady - you'll trigger a unique monologue from Calendar Man. After talking about how he's been there "from the beginning," the date-obsessed villain warns that "the end of days is coming." If you think this story sounds familiar, that's because it also took a nudge from Rocksteady to reveal an easter egg hidden in Batman: Arkham Asylum. In that case, the secret was a room stuffed full of references and teases to Arkham City. The uploader of this new video likewise theorizes that Calendar Man's cryptic message is a reference to the upcoming Batman: Arkham Knight. You know, if a development team can slip these hidden bits of information past the Dark Knight and his followers so routinely, we have to wonder if Rocksteady might secretly be run by supervillains. [Image: Warner Bros. Interactive]
