Batman: Arkham Asylum Paul Dini Interview
Paul Dini has been as involved with the Bat as anyone who still draws breath upon this earth. He’s worked on the Animated Series, which is probably the finest portrayal of Batman in media, and now, he takes credit as the writer for Batman: Arkham Asylum.
It’s a good job if you can get it.
The Telegraph recently posted an illuminating interview with Paul about the new video game (why aren’t you playing it?), covering inspiration, what came before, and the necessities of video game design. Read it here.
Batman Arkham Asylum Release Trailer
One of my favourite games on the old NES is Sunsoft’s Batman, and that trend hasn’t much changed through the ages. If you want jumping, brawling, stealth, and gadgets, you want the bat.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is the latest bat on the block, and it looks like a worthy effort. Lots of enemies, lots of martial art moves, ninjatastic stealthing, and more or less running around as a deadly shadow that all men fear. Good stuff. Here’s the launch release trailer.
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The Best of Retro Gaming: Music From the 8-Bit Era
The sad truth is, I’m an old and crumbling husk of bones and withered, parchment-like skin. That’s not just because I’ve taken over a stolen corpse as my body, either. I blinked one day, and when my eyes opened again, time had passed. Twenty years, about.
In some ways, this was extremely cool. The internet happened, over about a week or so as far as I can tell, I was suddenly living in my own house, there was a car in the driveway, and I could eat pizza every day. Video games also got bigger, with that Super Nintendo, Genesis, Playstation, Xbox, a brief flash of Gamecube, and finally the Wii appeared, ghostly in its hidden and unpurchasable majesty.
Then I turned around and talked games with a buddy of mine, and discovered he’d never played the original NES Metroid because it came …
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