Arkham Asylum Development Diary

Set to be released late August, the reincarnation to the Batman franchise pits the incredibly beefed-up Bruce Wayne against nearly all of his adversaries in the Gotham universe. Arkham Asylum delivers a nice multi-shaded  grey gritty look with flamboyant color palettes for foes. Sadly I can’t get into this game. From The Joker’s chiseled jawline to Batman looking like he’s been having too much HGH; the games premise seems stale. Maybe I’m being  too hard on it, but the plot idea: Batman’s worst night ever, is just meh. Addtionally for a game that is so close to street date, I’ve hardly heard a thing about it.  I hope I am wrong…what do you think?

See that game cover above? I know what you must be thinking…“Is Keanu Reeves staring in a new game?” Thankfully, no, at least not yet. But, please don’t judge this game by the box art. The Conduit is currently being developed exclusively for the Wii by High Voltage Software. Newly released footage looks amazing and really shows the “Quantum3” game engine, which was specifically developed for the Wii to create the same illusory functions as the PS3 and Xbox360 despite hardware limitations.

This futuristic FPS is set to be released sometime in Spring 2009. Since there is still some time before the release there’s no need to get mixed up in the plot, suffice to say it has conspiracies and guns. Watch the newest eye-candy and development videos after the jump!

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