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The Status Of Microsoft And Sony’s Next Consoles. Plus: A Whole Bunch Of Other Gaming Secrets.

No topic appeared in the rumour mill this year as much as the coming next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft.


A Kotaku 5-Player: Will The VGAs Announce A Flash Game? Or Wonder Woman?

As news goes, the Video Game Awards are more about the future games they will tease than the existing ones they honour. Kotaku will be in Los Angeles on Friday covering the gala. Here is an internal chatroom discussion among Stephen Totilo, Luke Plunkett, Mike Fahey, Kirk Hamilton and yours truly as we try to pin down the most expected unexpected announcement of the evening.


Catwoman Looks More Modest In Batman: Arkham City For Wii U

Notice anything different about Catwoman in the image above? Sure seems like she’s covering up for her debut on Nintendo’s upcoming console, no?


Arkham City Writer Won’t Be Back For The Next Batman Game

Part of what’s made Rocksteady’s two Batman video games such great experiences has been the pitch-perfect stories players encountered in each. The narrative contributions in both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City came Paul Dini, who’s written excellent Batman stories for TV and film as well. But it seems that Dini may not be returning for the rumoured prequel supposedly due out in 2014.


Drive Yourself Nuts Trying To Guess The "3 To 4" Undiscovered Secrets Still Left In Arkham City

If you thought you had discovered everything in Batman: Arkham City or, if not, it could be found on GameFAQs or in some other corner of the web, well, that’s not so, says the game’s studio. There are still “three or four” secrets in the game that no one has yet found, the game’s director said in a panel discussion at London this weekend.


It’s The Patch PC Owners Deserve… And The Patch Batman: Arkham City Has Right Now

When Batman: Arkham City was released on PC late last year it had a few issues — game breaking issues — but now it seems as though Rocksteady has finally released the patch Arkham City, and its prospective players, deserve!


Rocksteady: UK Games Industry Doing It Tough

The Australian games industry may be having a tough time, but we’re not alone. Over in the UK, London-based Rocksteady Studios (the creators of the recent Batman games) has lamented the health of their local games industry.


Batman: Arkham City Gets Cheat Code, Free Costume

To thank you for making their publishers millions of dollars and themselves a swag of awards, Batman: Arkham City developers Rocksteady have unlocked a couple of holiday treats for owners of the game.


Batman’s PC Version Fixed, But Also Broken

Arkham CIty’s had some DX11 problems since its delayed PC release. A new patch from Rocksteady tries to fix this, but only if you don’t have Windows Vista or 7 32-bit. If you do, it makes things worse. Oh dear. [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]


Batman: Arkham City Patch Being Readied, But In The Meantime, Here’s A Quick Fix

The PC version of Batman: Arkham City has had some… teething problems since launch but, according to a post on the official forums, a patch is being readied to deal with the majority of those issues.


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