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Originally Posted by wraggster

Rocksteady has confirmed to Eurogamer that the full range of Batman: Arkham City skins being divvied up between retailers as pre-order bonuses will become available to all later on as DLC.
"The offer that we're making out with retailers for gamers is, this is an early access opportunity for you," Rocksteady's marketing manager Dax Ginn told us in London yesterday. "Absolutely down the track [the skins] will be available more broadly."
Six Batman skins were detailed

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The Dragon Age 2 Legacy DLC shows BioWare is listening to fan feedback, the developer has said.
Fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age 2, which launched earlier this year, polarized fans, and was seen as a move away from the more tactical, old school RPG trappings of the first game.
Legacy, though, "goes a long way towards demonstrating that we are listening, that we are aware of the weaknesses of DA2, and that we will continue to address them," lead designer Mike Laidlaw wrote

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Indie sensation Minecraft has just reached another astonishing sales milestone.
"Minecraft just sold its third million copy!" Tweeted creator Markus "Notch" Persson.
The news follows last month's revelation that Minecraft had passed the ten million registered user mark.
Tiny Swedish developer Mojang is estimated to have generated around £35 million in revenue off the back of the PC game.
Minecraft finally leaves beta and in November, when it will officially

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Eric Chahi's eye-catching god simulation From Dust has broken publisher Ubisoft's day one digital download sales record.
The Xbox 360 game broke record digital sales after launching on 27th July.
It had the highest first day sales of any Xbox Live Arcade game that Ubisoft has ever released, with sales approximately 45 per cent higher than Ubisoft's previous best-selling XBLA release - a game the French publisher failed to disclose. Was it Beyond Good & Evil HD, or perhaps Scott Pilgrim

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Mike Morhaime, president of World Of Warcraft developer Blizzard, has said that a second quarterly decline in subscriber numbers should not be a cause of concern. Instead he claims it was to be expected following the release of the game's third expansion, Cataclysm, last December.

Speaking on an investor call following the publication yesterday of Activision Blizzard's latest financial results, Morhaime revealed that World Of Warcraft ended the quarter with 11.1 million subscribers.

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