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Batman Arkham City, the upcoming sequel to one of the best super hero action games ever made Batman Arkham Asylum, now has a firm release date. Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive announced that Dark Knight fans will be able to play the full version on October 18 in the US. Australia will have the game released on October 19 while Europe and other countries will have to wait until October 21.

Just a reminder: Batman Arkham City is being developed by the original title's developers Rocksteady and will feature Batman facing a host of villains, both old and new, in a section of Gotham City that's five times the size of the game world in Batman Arkham Asylum.

Batman Arkham City is the upcoming sequel to 2009's terrific single player-only super hero action game Batman Arkham Asylum. Many thought that the sequel from developer Rocksteady would have some kind of multiplayer mode. However IGN has the word that there will be no multiplayer in Batman Arkham City.

Chatting with IGN, the game's director Sefton Hill confirmed the news, saying, "Our thought process behind this was fairly simple: when we investigated adding multiplayer we asked, 'If we use all of the energy that is required to create multiplayer and instead focus this on the single player, would that deliver a better overall game?'" Hill said the decision to make the game a single player only experience was for the best, saying, " ... it would not have been possible to deliver Arkham City the way we wanted to if we'd have added multiplayer." The game is still due for release this fall.

Hugo Strange is one of Batman's more tenacious and unknown foes. Premiering before crazies such as Two-Face or Joker, he is one of the only villains to correctly deduce Batman's true identity of Bruce Wayne. Naturally, in their desire to create another worthy villain for Batman to fight, the developers of Arkham City have included the deranged psychologist in their game, and if this trailer is any indication, he's going to be an absolute beast. It's a cinematic, and toes the line of the uncanny valley, but the action is spectacular and it really captures the brooding style of the comics.

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Batman Arkham City got its first trailer reveal at the 2009 Video Game Award and on Saturday the upcoming sequel to 2009's acclaimed action game Batman Arkham Asylum will get yet another trailer. We've been promised that the visuals of this new video footage won't look like a video game but if someone had filmed what happens.

And that's not all. The trailer on Saturday will also reveal a villain that will make an appearance in the Rocksteady-developed game. Who could it be? Ra's Ah Ghul? Hush? The Red Hood? Ma Parker? The Bookworm? (OK, those last two came from the 1960's Batman TV show).

It was announced about a year ago and earlier this year Game Informer did the first real preview of the game but now it looks like the marketing for Batman Arkham City is ramping up. Today MSN Games hosted the a new teaser trailer for the game. It's only the second such video released for the Rocksteady-developed sequel to 2009's Batman Arkham Asylum.

The 30 second video, which you can check out after the jump, is a CGI-only affair but it does show The Dark Knight doing what he does best; kicking the crap out of the bad guys. We should see a longer version of the trailer on Saturday during the Video Game Awards show on Spike TV. Batman Arkham City is still due for release in the fall of 2011.

While we wait for more info and screenshots to be released for Batman: Arkham City. the first Batman game from developer Rocksteady is ready for yet another sale. Yep, the Game of the Year edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum has a big price cut at the Steam PC game download service.

Normally priced at $39.99, the Game of the Year edition is now on sale via Steam for just $13.60, a 66 percent discount. The game is almost a steal at that price and if you have not yet played it you need to do so before Batman: Arkham City comes out.

It's rare that we post a news story that is mostly about some new screenshots of an upcoming game but we make do make exceptions. We are making one now for the first "official" internet screenshots for Batman: Arkham City. You may remember some other screenshots that were released earlier this year but those were leaked and didn't come directly from publisher Warner Bros. Interactive.

These new screenshots from developer Rocksteady are no less impressive looking, however. The Dark Knight looks like he's about ready to do some big damage to Gotham's wild and crazy criminal element. The new screenshots come as the official web site of Game Informer magazine has finally reprinted its preview of Batman: Arkham City which remains the only really detailed look at the game due out in late 2011.

An alleged internet leak over at the NeoGAF forum has apparently yielded the first real screenshots from Batman: Arkham City, the upcoming sequel to developer Rocksteady's 2009 super hero action game Batman Arkham Asylum. While we have yet to get confirmation from publisher Warner Bros. Interactive that these are the real deal, we feel confident enough that these are legit to go ahead and post them.

Besides the visuals here are just simply too cool looking not to post about. Batman looks cool as always but take a look at Two-Face. That has to be the best representation of Harvey Dent we have ever seen, and yes we include The Dark Knight movie in that comparison. It's going to be a long wait until Batman Arkham City's fall 2011 release.

[Via Joystiq]

The critical and sales hit Batman Arkham Asylum put its UK-based development team Rocksteady Studios on the map in 2009. Today the game's co-publisher Warner Bros. announced that they have purchased a majority interest in Rocksteady even as the team is working on a sequel to Batman Arkham Asylum. Specific financial terms were not disclosed.

Formed in 2004, Rocksteady's only previous game was the underwhelming 2006 console action game Urban Chaos: Riot Response. However the team shocked the development community last year with the release of Batman: Arkham Asylum, an action game that both looked and played well and was not only the best Batman-based game ever made but one of the best games of 2009. Rocksteady is working on a sequel but details and a release date were not announced.

There are rare few good superhero games that are based on existing licenses, and there have certainly been no great games involving Batman. You can cringe every time you hear about a Batman game, and it will normally be justified. But not with Batman: Arkham Asylum. This is one of the best superhero games of all time, and certainly the best Batman game ever made. It combines some excellent atmosphere with a truly amazing faithfulness to old-school style, and this classic feel makes it one of the best games this year.