The chaps over at Eidos have announced a collectors edition version of the upcoming new Batman game, Batman Arkham Asylum. The contents of the collectors edition box are as follows: 14″ Batarang with stand Arkham Doctor’s Journal containing 48 pages of notes about the asylums inmates A predictable behind the scenes DVD, a collectors edition just wouldn’t be complete with one of these I guess A code for the Challenge Map downloadable content An exclusive map called Crime Alley That all sounds really great, especially the Batarang, and the whole lot with be stored in a funky box that you can display with pride on your mantle piece rather than that silly family photo. Pricing has not yet been announced…

Jon Brooke, head of marketing at Eidos, has said that the upcoming new Batman game will not only be one of the biggest hits for this summer, but it will also be a bit hit after 2009 simply because he believes that “It’s as close to perfect as we’ve ever come, it looks amazing, plays beautifully and has a rich twisting storyline with enormous replayability”. He also said that the publisher of the game is planning a 4 month advertising campaign that will include adverts online, video and paper. I look forward to seeing some pretty awesome adverts for this game. By the looks of the released trailers and screenshots, it does look like this game will be one not…

Although this is pretty old news, I missed it at the time, plus this blog wasn’t set up at the time. However, me being a huge Batman fan, I think if you missed this bit of news like I did, you should really know about. And the news is that there is a new Batman game being developed called Batman: Arkham Asylum. Not much has been said about the game yet, and their website isn’t very helpful. But, in last August, some screenshots appeared on the Rocksteady Games website, developers of the new game. Now these screenshots didn’t stay up on the website for long. But one person managed to grab the whole set of screenshots, and since then, they…

The title of this post explains it all, when you mix highly addictive video games with the brains at Lego, you get an amazing game. If you have never played a Lego video game, I would highly recommend it. I was first hooked on the Lego games when I bought Lego Star Wars: The Video Game on Ebay for a bargain, £6. After that day I have played all of the Lego Star Wars game, the fairly new, Lego Indiana Jones and have got my pre-order of Lego Batman. It’s hard to describe what makes these games good, even for all ages. The main thing would have to be the fun factor and being able to play through some classic…