Saturday, December 12, 2009

Arkham has moved: Arkham Asylum 2 Announced

Arkham has moved: Arkham Asylum 2 Announced! Batman: Arkham Asylum rejoice as Arkham has moved announced the sequel Batman: Arkham Asylum 2. During the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, The Joker took the stage to announced the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham Asylum 2.

Boasting itself as “the sequel”, the sequel is being development at Rocksteady Studios, who’s the developer of the first title. Featuring crime-ridden city streets, the trailers depicts The Joker in a convoluted state caused by the ending events of Arkham Asylum. The trailer didn’t go into much detail about the game, but it did quarry at the escape of the inmates into Gatham City with The Joker as the master mind behind the chaos. But, other then that, the trailer didn’t reveal anything about the sequel.

Batman: Arkham Asylum is an action-adventure stealth video game based on DC Comics’ Batman for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics.

Wiki reports that the game received extremely high praise from critics, earning a 92% average on GameRankings, a game aggregator. This also earned it a spot in the Guinness World Records for “Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game”. Sales were also high, selling over 2 million copies within its first two weeks of its console release.

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Google Nexus One Phone!

Google Nexus One Phone! Google Nexus One Phone revealed and it will be developed by HTC for Google. This was confirmed by sources and was posted on Wall Street Journal a couple of hours ago.

Instead of a carrier like Verion/AT&T/Sprint offering this phone, Google is going to be offering it unlocked, and you will have to set it up with a carrier on your own.

Reports say that the Google Nexus One Phone is thinner than the iPhone, it has no physical keyboard, and runs on a snapdragon chip but these details are not confirmed yet.

The Nexus One will be featured with the Google Android OS 2.1, and, unlike the other Android phones on the market, the user experience was ENTIRELY designed by Google. Now the rumors are swirling as to when the phone will be launched, but there is speculation that it will be available in January 2010.

Google Nexus One Phone Specs
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 GHz ARM CPU
  • High resolution OLED display
  • Around $500 USD
  • GSM with possibility of UMTS (3G) on AT&T and T-Mobile
  • Voice-to-text dictate feature
  • Capacitive touch screen & on-screen keyboard