While expecting his award for “Best Performance by Human Male,” at the Spike Video Game Awards, a computer animated The Joker held up a script that read “Batman: Arkham World,” hinting at the possibility of another Batman game.

Before continuing with his acceptance speech, he tossed the script mischievously stating “whoops, spoilers.” Of course, this isn’t a formal announcement, and it is far from Rocksteady confirming another sequel.

The online pass system seems to be everywhere, even in single-player games. According to Eurogamer, Warner Bros. Interactive have confirmed that an online pass will be needed to access the Catwomen content on the Batman: Arkham City disc.

“Further to your story, players who purchase previously owned copies of Batman: Arkham City can access the playable Catwoman content for £7.99/ 800 Microsoft Points,” said a Warner Bros representative. “Playing as Catwoman is not required to complete the game.”

However, without the code, Catwoman still appears in the game as part of the story, but her playable missions remain locked. In addition, it also unlocks Catwoman as a playable character in the challenge missions.

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe didn’t achieve both critical and commercial success, much like its predecessors. Instead, it achieved only commercial success. That in mind, Warner Brothers Interactive have announced the newest installment into the Mortal Kombat franchise, featuring the return “fatalities”.

Being developed over at NetherRealm Studios, Mortal Kombat is said to include extensive online play, a “tag-team” game option that supports up to four players in two-person teams — in conjunction to the classic 1v1 option — and “the deepest story mode of any fighting game”.

“We can’t wait for players to get their hands on Mortal Kombat. The game really is a response to what players have been demanding: mature presentation, reinvented 2D fighting mechanic and the best, most gruesome fatalities ever,” added creative director, Ed Boon.

Heavy Rain was develop as an “interactive drama”. However, developer Quantic Dream have plans to push Heavy Rain as another form of entertainment, a movie. According to Deadline, Quantic Dream are close to signing a movie deal with Unique Features.

Unique Features is the newest venture of former New Line Cinema executives Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne. That in mind, Unique has an exclusive deal with Warner Bros. giving the studio first-look rights to its pictures.

Released in February, Heavy Rain is a dark and utterly absorbing thriller where you set the rules and where the buck stops with you. With a killer on the loose and time running out, you must decide how far you’ll go to track him down. Since its launch, Heavy Rain has sold over a million copies.

Remember the news about free downloadable content coming to Batman: Arkham Asylum? Well, it looks like Warner Bros. has something to reveal. Today, Warner Bros. and Eidos revealed the additional downloadable content for Batman: Arkham Asylum entitled the Insane Night Map Pack, which offers players two new Challenge Maps to hone their FreeFlow Combat skills and test their Invisible Predator prowess.

In the Totally Insane FreeFlow Combat map, players’ will be tested to their fullest as scores of escaped lunatics bear down upon Batman as they make their escape through the asylum’s secure records facility. These fast-moving foes will challenge all but the most practiced players, with quick reactions and expert timing needed to fend off wave upon wave of insane inmates, bent on taking down the Dark Knight.

In the Nocturnal Hunter Invisible Predator map, players take on a wholly different approach, practicing their predatory skills to remain in the shadows, utilizing the Arkham watchtowers and Batman’s arsenal of gadgets to gain the upper hand on The Joker’s army of goons patrolling below. The Insane Night Map Pack will available on September 17.

With the closing of Midway Newcastle, Midway has confirmed to EndSights that the Necessary Force intellectual property remains the sole property of their company, and they are advertising the IP for sale.

“At this point it remains an asset of Midway and is available for purchase. We have not disclosed any other plans for the IP,” Midway spokesman Geoffrey Mogilner told EndSights.

Necessary Force was announced mid last month and arose with some very high expectations; one being the savior of Midway Newcastle.

And the awesomeness continues. After revealing characters such as Bane and Harley Quinn, it’s time for the vixen of ivy-ness to show whats she’s got in the latest trailer for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

“Batman: Arkham Asylum offers players the chance to battle Gotham’s worst villains with Batman’s physical and psychological strength in a graphically distinct and story-driven game,” said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment when the game was announced. “We look forward to working with Eidos on expanding DC Comics’ world-renowned character Batman in the game space with a noticeably different feature set in an incredibly dark interactive environment.”

In case you were wondering if the rumors were true, it seems that the game has indeed been delayed and the Bat-signal wouldn’t be shining on your console anytime soon.

In a press alarm sent to us today, it was revealed that Batman: Arkham Asylum has, once again, been delayed and that it won’t be playable at your home until the end of the of summer ’09. In addition, it was said that, “this additional time will allow us to ensure Batman: Arkham Asylum is of the highest quality for gamers.”

“In Batman: Arkham Asylum Eidos and Warner Bros. are building a true action adventure game experience worthy of gamers and fans,” said Phil Rogers, CEO of Eidos Interactive when the game was announced. “Players become Batman, like he has never been seen before in a video game, as he fights through intense circumstances in Arkham Asylum utilizing his intuitive detective skills and aggressive melee attacks.”

Just when you though this game couldn’t be anymore amazing. In a press alarm today, it was revealed by both Eidos and Warner Bros. that The Joker will  be playable in the PlayStation 3 version Batman: Arkham Asylum, which was orginally revealed by scoures in Home – a PlayStation 3D open world program.

The character will be made available upon release as a free downloadable character through the PlayStation Network and can be played in the Challenge Maps within the game. Fans can get additional information in the June issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine. (Click on image to view Joker)

It’s actually real. Almost a month after GDC, it seems that the long rumored title has finally been announced in what is a shocking turn of events.

Anyway, LEGO: Rock Band is being developed by TT Games in a partnership with Harmonix and published by Warner Bros. Entertainment. The title will combined he multiplayer music experience of Rock Band with the fun, customization and humour of the LEGO videogame franchise packed with brilliant chart-topping songs and classic favourites suitable for younger audiences.

Including hits such as Blur’s “Song 2″, Carl Douglas’ “Kung Fu Fighting”, Europe’s “The Final Countdown”, Good Charlotte’s “Boys and Girls” and Pink’s “So What”.

“LEGO Rock Band combines two compelling properties and creates an experience that family members of all ages will enjoy playing together as a group,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. “Harmonix and MTV Games are the world experts in music gameplay, and we’re genuinely thrilled to bring the unique and humour-filled LEGO experience to their Rock Band universe.”

LEGO: Rock Band will release on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS and it is scheduled for 2009 release. It will be with Rock Band and “other music game” controllers.

She’s mad, she’s bad, she’s Harley Quinn. Anyway, yet another Batman: Arkham Asylum trailer has been released this week. However, this one shows off  Harley Quinn’s barely-encased body instead of a killer roid jockey named Bane. 

“In Batman: Arkham Asylum Eidos and Warner Bros. are building a true action adventure game experience worthy of gamers and fans,” said Phil Rogers, CEO of Eidos Interactive. “Players become Batman, like he has never been seen before in a video game, as he fights through intense circumstances in Arkham Asylum utilizing his intuitive detective skills and aggressive melee attacks.”

As we were told many times before, Batman: Arkham Asylum will feature many other characters from within the Batmen universe, and one of those characters within that universe is The Joker’s main sweetie, Harley Quinn.

A scan from a magazine has revealed has revealed, what looks like, a picture of Arkham Asylum’s version Harley Quinn, and man is she hot. But, design wise, they’ve been sticking closer to the dark and grittier comic styles for the Dark Knight and his foes.

“Batman: Arkham Asylum offers players the chance to battle Gotham’s worst villains with Batman’s physical and psychological strength in a graphically distinct and story-driven game,” said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

“We look forward to working with Eidos on expanding DC Comics’ world-renowned character Batman in the game space with a noticeably different feature set in an incredibly dark interactive environment.”

After LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones and the upcoming LEGO Batman you wonder what other toys from the LEGO Universe would be making the step forward into the LEGO video game series. And well sometime ago Traveller’s Tales, the main people behind the LEGO games, announced that a new title will be added to their LEGO video game series and it’s already in production. And get this, the game will have an incorporating background songs by Warner Bros.

And when you think about it the most lucrative series that is kid friendly that Warner Bros has just happens to be Harry Potter. It will make the most sense to make their next title LEGO Harry Potter because after all the LEGO game series is mostly pushed toward kids.

LEGO has also made many LEGO Harry Potter toys and they have made alot of money doing this. With the upcoming Harry Potter movie coming it’s a great idea to do so. So lets just hope that with all this smart business cents Traveller’s Tales will be making their next LEGO game LEGO Harry Potter.

At it’s midnight showing The Dark Knight grossed in an estimated $18.5 million, that’s the most ever for midnight showing in a long time. The last movie to hold this record was Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith, which grossed $16.9 million. And the lastest movie to hold this record was Spider-Man 3 which made 59.8 million in it’s opening day and by the looks of things The Dark Knight will be breaking that very soon. While some experts say that this movie is expected to gross $170 million, it may have done that by the time this story is posted.

To see what the NYTimes had to say about the movie check out this review of The Dark Knight.

According to GamesIndustry.biz, Swedish developer Grin is currently working with Universal on a Wanted movie based video game. The movie has taken over USD 192 million at the box office since release. The game will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

“From the time we read the script and saw the film’s pre-visual material, it was clear that Wanted was a powerful property – one that was well poised to deliver an engaging gaming experience,” commented Bill Kispert, VP and general manager for Universal Pictures.

Pete Wanat will work with Grin as executive game producer, who previously worked on movie games like The Thing, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Scarface: The World is Yours.

According to Variety , Capcom is teaming up with producer Avi Arad to bring the Lost Planet movie adaptation to life. The movie is set to be part of a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Along with the news we got word that David Hayter , which was aready know by the rumor posted on the net, will be the writing the script for the movie. Arad will be producing the movie with his son Ari in partnership with Steven Paul through Seaside Entertainment. We are still waiting for officail word from Capcom about the movie.

It may seem like common to get a game with this kind of hype over a movie, The Dark Knight, and with there being many rumors pointing to the game being reality there was still no official word about the game. But, yet still Joystick Radio seems to think that you “may see in the future” something about The Dark Knight video game, but they didn’t say it in that in that order. So keep your eyes peeled because you may see something about a new batman game.

Update 6/21/2008: You guys may want to take a look at this.
The Dark Knight Game Confirmed

Not so long ago we reported that David Hayter would be working a deal with Warner Bros. to induce Capcom’s Lost Planet to the big screen. Now, a rumor has been spotted up on the internet that advises the Lost Planet movie adaptation will be coming our way in 2011.

According to 1UP, the Lost Planet movie adaptation will be coming our way in 2011, or in other words the movie will be seen for the first time in theaters some in late, mid or early 09.  Many rumors have been going around that the movie would indeed be coming to life on the big screen, and many sources state that Warner Bros. will indeed be the distributor, with Capcom and Seaside Films co-producing the adaptation in to film. But, for now this is still a rumor so until E3 there is still no official word on the movie so far, so we still need to wait.

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is currently out for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

According to an article posted by IGN (Joystiq ), veteran voice actor/screenwriter David Hayter revealed a deal with Warner Bros. to bring Capcom’s Lost Planet to the big screen. Bring Lost Planet closer to fruition than previously thought. Hayter told IGN that "It’s not entirely confirmed yet," he goes on to say "we are just closing the deal with Warner Bros. for me to adapt Lost Planet." But, unfortunately due to Hayter’s contractual agreements, IGN was unable to obtain more specific information about the film. Just keep E3 as an open window for an announcement.

In the article Hayter goes on to talking about his Hayter’s approach to adopting games to film here’s what he had to say "There is gap in Hollywood between people who write good movies and those who appreciate good video games," he said. "I’m fortunate enough to be in both worlds. For myself, I try to make an effort to take the essence of the game, keep as much of that as possible, and still put it into a proper film structure."

It’s time to unleashed your inner chimp with today’s newly released box art revealed by Warner Bros. The game is based off the upcoming movie, which will release this July, Space Chimps. In the game you play as HAM and LUNA, who are both passengers on a harrowing mission through a dangerous inter-universal wormhole.

Features

• Alternate between playing Ham and Luna exchanging humorous banter between the two acrobatic chimps.
• Unleash your animal abilities as you tumble, jump, climb and swing your way through environments straight out of the movie.
• Switch from fighting mode to sneaking more to puzzle solving mode as you travel from level to level.
• Fly on the back of alien fluvians, or get yourself your own pair of flutter eye wings.
• 11 levels including 3 bosses.
• Battle 2-player coop style.
• 13 entirely new enemies, not found in the film, to challenge your combat skills!
• Entirely exclusive NDS experience, with 3D side-scrolling action and 2 player multiplayer.

According to an Inside source at 1up the entire PR, marketing, and sales department at Eidos has been laid off as part of a big deal with Warner Bros.

Warner Bros plans to get very cozy with the North American portions of SCi’s distribution chain. While it’s been understood for a while now that Time Warner has been actively seeking a way to increase the reach of its digital properties, the move comes at a very interesting time. Recently the media world has seen a lot of centralization and blurring of the lines between the games and entertainment business, with big entertainment distributors making grabs for hot properties at every turn. Maybe John Riccitello was onto something when he mused recently about Hollywood getting all nervous about the influence videogames have over the mass market?

[Layoffs at Eidos in Light of Warner Bros. Deal? 1up]

A source close to Moviehole , told them "this morning that the film remains in-tact – and nothing of Ledger’s will be cut from the movie, including the body-bag scene. ‘’I KNOW for a fact that that scene is in the film. I also know that WB has made no such mandate and that Chris [Nolan] is honest when saying that he will not change what was intended with The Joker.”