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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 previously revealed sequel to Batman Arkham Asylum finally has a real name and a release date. Warner Bros Interactive officially announced today that the sequel to 2009's hit super hero game will be called Batman Arkham City. The game is still a long ways off as the publisher also announced a fall 2011 release date for the game.

Developed once again by UK-based Rocksteady, the sequel will take place in Arkham City, the new location for all of Batman's crazy villains. Unlike the asylum, which was a confined space well outside of Gotham City, Arkham City is a much larger location that's inside a district of Gotham City itself. Game Informer's print magazine this month features Batman Arkham City and it looks like Catwoman is going to be one of the new characters in the game if two of the cover designs are to be believed.

Actor Mark Hamill is almost as well known for his voice work as the Joker compared to his role in some cult sci-fi film trilogy (Star . . Trek? Fight?..we can't remember offhand). He started his terrific performace work on the original Batman The Animated Series and has since voiced the Joker in a ton of TV shows, movies, DVDs and games including last year's hit Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Hamill will also voice the Joker in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum sequel (which doesn't yet have an official title) but after that project his done, so is Hamill in his role as perhaps the greatest comic book villain of all time. IGN reports that Hamill has confirmed, ""This will be my last, there's no question about that. But it's the last hurrah."

Yep, we have more exciting financial numbers to talk about today. Publisher Square Enix released their latest numbers for their last fiscal year that ended March 31.The company recorded a record profit of 27.3 billion year for the period. That's compared to 11.3 billion yen for the same period a year ago.

Part of the reason was the high sales of several games from the publisher including a couple from their Eidos division. Batman: Arkham Asylum brought in 3.24 million copies for the fiscal year while Just Cause 2, which was released late in the company's fiscal quarter, has already sold 1.19 million copies by the end of April.

A little while ago we alerted you to plans for the release of action figures based on the 2009 action game Batman Arkham Asylum. Today DC Comics gave us our first look at what the six inch tall action figures will look like. As you can see the first set of figures will feature Batman himself, the Joker (with a smaller Scarface figure accessory), Scarecrow and Harley Quinn.

You can expect multiple points of articulation for each figure as well as a display stand. The bad news? The figures won't be released until January 12, 2011 which means you won't be able to buy them before Christmas this year. Pricing has yet to be announced.

How many action figures based on Batman do you think have been released? The answer for some of you might be, "Way too many," and others might say, "Not close to enough." Well we will soon have another set of figures based on the Caped Crusader. The magazine Toyfare (via the Previewsworld web site) has announced they will have the exclusive reveal of the Batman: Arkham Asylum action figures in their June 2010 issue.

The line, from DC Direct, is of course based on the hit Rocksteady-Eidos-Warner Bros. Interactive game from 2009 that will soon be re-released as a Game of the Year version in May. There's not much info on what the action figure line will contain or when they will be available; obviously the magazine issue will be the first place to get the details.