New Batman: Arkham Asylum map pack coming tomorrow but not on PC? [Update]

Posted Sep 23rd 2009 12:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, Action

Last week, Batman: Arkham Asylum was released for the PC and quickly got its first free downloadable map pack. Tomorrow, publisher Eidos intends to release a second such free map pack for the super hero action game. The Prey in the Darkness Map Pack will be available exclusively via the Games For Windows Live Marketplace for the PC version.

One of the two new maps will be titled Heart of Darkness and is a Combat FreeFlow level where the Caped Crusader will fight off enemies at the Arkham Pumping Station. The other new map is an Invisible Predator level called Hothouse Prey where Batman will take out his foes silently in the Abandoned Glasshouse. Hopefully there won't be any issues with getting these levels available to download like there were last week with the first map pack.

Update: According to this Eidos message board post, it looks like this DLC will NOT be released for the PC after all. There's no word as to why this decision was made but we will try to find out some more info.

Update 2: Eidos sent over a press release announcing that the map pack would be exclusively for the PS3 only in the US and for the Xbox 360 and PS3 in Europe.

Gallery: Batman: Arkham Asylum

Tags: batman-arkham-asylum, eidos, games-for-windows-live, rocksteady-studios

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Man, I am *so* effing sick of this. If a platform buys exclusivity for DLC ahead of time (like GTA4), that's one thing -- it's a selling point for that platform's version of the game. But this stupid roulette bullshit is killing me... will the game get DLC on the platform I bought it on? Maybe, maybe not. It's getting to where the only safe strategy is to wait 6 months after release (when the publisher and developer get a lot less money for the sale) and see where the DLC lands.Posted at 11:10PM on Sep 25th 2009 by James

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