How quickly we forget — Rocksteady’sBatman: Arkham Asylumwas originally supposed to be released in June. When we found out that it was being delayed, we cried. The game was eventually released on August 25; that’s like, two whole months! Gamers might have been a bit worked up about it, but the game’s publishers, Eidos and Warner Bros., were cool as cucumbers. Rocksteady’s Sefton Hill toldKotakuthat the publishers were fine with the extra time....

Army of Two: The 40th Dayis out on store shelves now, andwe’ve reviewed it. Usually this means the end of the line for trailers and such, but Electronic Arts has one more up its sleeve. Above you can watch Salem and Rio travel around the world doing funny things, or at least things that are supposed to be funny. Oh, the guy from that motorcycle-building show is in it too, for some reason....

[Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.] Are you sick ofStreet Fighterart yet? I’m not and that’s why today Art Attack Friday is all about lastscionz. Most of lastscionz’s work isStreet Fighterrelated as he has done a ton of work for Udon and his work has been featured in Udon art books. He has a ton ofgroup piecesof the Street Fighters plus some wonderful individual pieces such as thisEvil Ryupiece....

In mid-January Ubisoft had us scratching our heads when it announced that anew episode ofAssassin’s Creed II, featuring multiplayer, would hit in its 2010-2011 fiscal year. Earlier yesterday, we stroked our scalps raw with thereveal ofAssassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer, an iPhone title. Was this what Ubisoft was talking about? No, it isn’t. Speaking toMTV Multiplayer, a Ubisoft representative confirmed as much with a simple “Nope,” which is just fine by us....

Atlus has announcedThe Cursed Crusadefor Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. This Kylotonn Entertainment-developed co-op game is set in medieval Europe, and yes, there’s a supernatural element to it. There always is, isn’t there? This game is going to be a third-person action-adventure title with both splitscreen and online co-op play. So far so good! Players have the ability to turn the world into a “flaming red vision of Hell,” which ups your strength and lets you see otherwise hidden objects, but this comes “at the expense of your humanity....

Nintendo’s commitment to giving different countries wildly different things in varying degrees of quality continues, with word that Australia has the opportunity to get the rather desirableOcarina of Time 3D: Ocarina Edition. Niiiiiiice! Exclusive to EB Games as a pre-order gift,the 3DS titlecomes in a snazzy box which also houses a real-life ocarina, similar to the oneGreek gamers can obtainas a pre-order bonus. Sheet music is also included, allowing players to recreate The Lost Woods song and annoyeverybodywith it....

Gamespotrecently compared the graphics of seven different games, all of which are available for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. There are roll-over images for each game, so you will be able to witness the duel in real time. Not surprisingly, the 360 managed to trump the PS3 graphically in most of the titles. Developers have had plenty of time to become better acquainted with Xbox 360 and it’s starting to show....

The above video for EA’sBattlefield: Bad Companymay have gotten a few chuckles from me, but this is the Internet — a place where people are accustomed to laughing so hard that their asses literallyfall off. If this clip seems at all familiar to you, perhaps you saw Valve’s “meet the (insertTeam Fortress 2class here)”installment of videosfrom a while back. They are incredibly similar to one another in theory, but if you’ve witnessed the two videos for yourself, you can easily see who the victor is....

I’ve mentioned before that I quite enjoyBioShock 2. The gameplay feels so much more interesting than it did the first go around. I really hope that people who were appalled at the idea of returning to Rapture have given it a chance because there’s a great game there. And, today, it’s on sale at Amazon. $29.99 will score the game for PS3 or Xbox 360. A PC version is $25.99. And, if you want that very cool special edition box with the posters and soundtrack on vinyl, you can even get that for a fairly reasonable $65....

If you’ve been curious about the Xbox 360’s Japanese RPGBlue Dragon, then this video will no doubt shine some light into your darkened Western mind. Until it comes to the U.S. or you speak Japanese, this is pretty much as close you’ll come to the game. After watching this, what do you think?

It’s time for the fifth Get SMARTBrinktrailer. Today, Splash Damage takes us on a tour through the game’s classes. Classes are actually mandatory for the completion of objectives, so some players will have to change their class if a team is imbalanced and doesn’t feature the right guy for the job. Aside from that, the classes operate how one might think. Soldiers are about ammunition and explosions, Operatives are about hacking and disguise, Medics revive and Engineers engineer....

Yesterday, the developer ofBurnout: Paradise, Criterion announcedon their official blogthat the long-awaited Bike pack DLC would be ready to download on September 18. The DLC will be free and, of course, motorcycles will be involved. The introduction of motorcycles is not the only thing the DLC will bring. Criterion has quite the list of new features and races to pick from: We got the opportunity to getour hands on the title updatelast month at EA Showcase and we came to the conclusion that it was “packed full of awesome” despite the inability to have catastrophic wrecks while driving the motorcycles....

I’m sure this “news” will excite themanydozensones of you that regularly hang out in Sony’s drab Second Life knockoff: the ability to take screen caps in Home probably isn’t far off. For those that don’t remember, this feature was origionally shown off at Sony’sE3 07 press conference, so it has been quite a while in coming. This exciting update came straight from the horse’s mouth, as America’s Home Manager Locust_Starrevealed that“[It’s] a simple feature that I know the devs are working on....