There was nothing magical about him. Nothing necessarily special. There was just him, his screwed up past and his gadgets and will. There’s something amazingly sexy about man who is resourceful and who uses those resources for good…or an interesting interpretation of good.

Batman: Arkham Asylum looks like it just might turn out to be a damn cool game and if you have your doubts [or just want an early taste] the demo of the game became available Friday on Xbox Live Marketplace for the 360 and the PlayStation Network for the PS3. You can also get the demo on Games For Windows Live.

Check out the official website: www.batmanarkhamasylum.com for instructions on how to get the demo on Windows Live and for updates on the game.

Batman: Arkham Asylum hits stores on August 25th in the US and August 28th for Europe.

Images|Eidos

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I’ve never been very much of a fan of the whole comic book scene [though I do have an unnatural amount of lust love for Wolverine] but I know that there are a lot of people out there whole eat this stuff up.

Who am I to keep these pretty, pretty pictures from you guys?

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 is set to hit this fall.

Images|Activision

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Waitaminute! This blog isn’t about comic books! Duh! It’s about retro and classic video games. So where are the crossovers in the video gaming realm? Believe it or not, the most well known crossover in this world still has something to do with comic books. Ever heard of the Marvel versus Capcom series?

Here’s a little backgrounder courtesy of Wikipedia:

Marvel vs Capcom is a series of fighting games created by Capcom in which characters created by Marvel Comics and Capcom’s own characters appear together. While it was the first versus series involving Capcom, the name Marvel exists to distinguish it from Capcom’s other versus series with SNK, Tatsunoko Production, and Namco’s crossover role-playing game with Capcom, Namco x Capcom.

The Marvel characters depicted in these games were often based on their incarnations in various early 1990s animated series (particularly X-Men), and were often voiced by the same voice actors.

Many of the characters and fighting mechanics used in these games were first developed and refined in two other fighting games Capcom had developed earlier, serving as precursors to the series: X-Men: Children of the Atom, which featured characters strictly from the X-Men universe, and Marvel Super Heroes, which gleaned characters from Marvel’s entire roster (X-Men included).

Although the tag-team fighting concept was not new, it was refined with this series (although fans would argue whether this was for better or for worse). New fighting game terminology, such as “Aerial Rave” (the act of performing a combo on an opponent while the opponent remains airborne) and “Variable Combination” (the act of having two or more characters on the same team to perform their hyper combos at the same time) were added to the fighting game vernacular with this series.

Well, this post is not really about Marvel vs Capcom, but about a fantasy crossover between two very popular video game worlds, that of Super Mario Brothers and Gordon Freeman’s Half-Life. Go check out the video below:

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