Burbank, Calif. – Jan. 5, 2012 – Batman is back to save Gotham City and the action will only build from here! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group are teaming up once again to announce that LEGO® Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes will be available beginning Summer 2012 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Wii™ system, and Windows PC, as well as the Nintendo DS™ hand-held system, Nintendo 3DS™ hand-held system, and PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system. The game is the sequel to the best-selling LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame, which to date has sold more than 11 million units worldwide.


LEGO Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes complements the brand new, recently released LEGO® Super Heroes: DC Universe toy collection. The line includes five construction sets, such as The Batcave and three buildable, detailed action figures.


In LEGO Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes, the Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin join other famous super heroes from the DC Universe including Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to save Gotham City from destruction at the hands of the notorious villains Lex Luthor and the Joker. Batman fans of all ages will enjoy a new and original story filled with classic LEGO videogame action and humor as players fight to put the villains back behind bars.


“LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes builds upon the action and cooperative gameplay experience established in our best-selling LEGO video game to date, LEGO Batman: The Videogame,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. “We’re offering fans a rich and expansive Gotham City environment filled with cool characters, great customization options and plenty of surprises that families, young gamers and DC Universe fans can enjoy together.”


“LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes further extends and combines both the Batman and LEGO videogame experiences to create very fun gameplay,” said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Development and Production, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Fans of all ages are going to enjoy the action and light hearted humor that TT Games and LEGO provide.”


LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes allows players to explore all new areas of Gotham City utilizing a variety of vehicles including the Batmobile and Batwing. In addition, they’ll be able to fight for justice by mastering new gadgets and suits, such as Batman’s Power Suit and Robins’ Hazard Cannon, and using all-new abilities including flight, super-breath and heat vision.


LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is being developed by TT Games and will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. For more information, please visit www.videogames.LEGO.com.

Foolz said:

bugsonglass said:

Those concept art paintings/watercolours of the Skyward Sword concept art are really beautiful.  GG that's the sort of thing you should look to buy for your room

You disaprove of commercial art, yet aprove of concept art. You are not a real art snob after all.

You are right.  I will stand in the corner.

Though in truth, I approved of it for GG's place, as what he intended to get was a lot worse.  

I'm still not hanging anything on my walls.  I will tatoo the place

Yeah I got a couple of other paintings too but the framing is so expensive and a pain the ass. I have to break out the tool kit this weekend.

Nintendo fans will get the Wii U, the rest will more than likely wait if Sony and Microsoft promise a new console in a year or less

I may follow the hobo philosophy for the next generation, depending on what exactly the Wii U has going for it and when Dragon Quest X will be coming out for it. Going the hobo route with the PS3 was the best thing I could have done and it's taught me a good lesson. I had a lot of fun with it for the first 9 months, but since September I've barely touched it except for a brief stint with UMvC3. And really after a few weeks with that I've barely touched it. The 3DS has kept me more than happy and looks to satisfy me for the rest of the year. In fact, judging by how things are going I may stick with handhelds for a while. Console gaming seems to interest me less and less as time goes by.

gamingeek said:

RE Revelations

The tailor who made her pants is genius.

Wii graphics have come a long way.

gamingeek said:

So I saw the Girl Who Leapt through time again last night and it reminded me of how you bastards still haven't seen Summer Wars, the excellent film from the same director.

So I decided to spam you with media and info.

The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by an artificial intelligence. Kenji must repair the damage done to the virtual world and he must find a way to stop the artificial intelligence from causing any further damage.

REVIEW

"Richly detailed and beautifully written, Summer Wars is a film filled with the sprawling chaos of family. Always ready to pause to capture the small details of daily life, Summer Wars uses its scifi premise to provide some punch to the visuals and energy to the proceedings while - so subtly that you barely notice - Hosoda pulls a bait and switch job and delivers not a ripping scifi adventure so much as he does a truly human story, a story of hope and perseverance and learning to become a man. It is a charming and funny piece of work, one that has a spot-on understanding of human nature, one blessed with an extensive cast of stunningly detailed and authentic characters."

Saw that last week, actually.

Really enjoyed it. Wasn't in a fantastic mood so I didn't take in the 20 characters the film expects you to take in, but dug it otherwise.

robio said:

edgecrusher said:

They made a huge mistake waiting until late 2012 to launch with such an early reveal. The Wii U should be sitting on store shelves with a few solid titles right now...should have released in October of 2011 for about $300.

What reason do they have for waiting until late 2012 to launch this thing? To milk a few more sales out of the Wii? They could have dropped Wii to $99 with a new gimmicky game and it would still be selling regardless. Now, they won't even have a year on the competition most likely, I could definitely see MS and Sony launching by summer 2013 depending how things go, and I can see a Dreamcast like scenario where Wii U is hot until the others launch offering all it has and more, and then popularity just drops. Obviously it will be much more successful than Dreamcast because its Nintendo, but I definitely see this system following the trend of becoming nothing more than the "Nintendo games console" once the others hit, because they won't have enough time on the market to really penetrate the hardcore.

Launching it last year would never have worked. The only mistake they made was not supporting the Wii with quality games in 2011. The 3DS was a bigger priority and they had no alternative but to launch a new handheld.

Wii U could potentially be huge depending on how that controller gets marketed. The idea that Nintendo is putting a tablet into every home in the world is very big thing. That's why they're doing they're own app store. If that takes off, they'll have another Wii on their hands.

But what if Sony and Microsoft also come out with Tablets? I don't know, last year was a full 5 years of Wii being on the Market. Its outlasted the Gamecube. I think they definitely could have pulled off a launch last year, especially seeing as how the Wii software lineup couldn't have been any deader.

BTW...man does the Wii look like absolute shit on my new TV.

Now I see what some of you guys are talking about. I always thought you were crazy, because on my Plasma the Wii didn't look much different than on my old CRT, plus the added benefits of widescreen and 480p. But on my new LCD, it looks horrible. Extremely blurry and muddy picture quality. Zelda is not going to look good.