Batman: Arkham City Box Art Reveals Games For Windows Live Support

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 12:01pm 17/06/11 | 9 Comments

Warner Bros. Interactive released box art for Batman: Arkham City this week, which has a massive Games For Windows Live banner across the top for PC, meaning the desktop version of the game will support Microsoft's clunky PC gaming platform.

A quick peak on the Steam Store saw no mention of pre-orders for the game on Valve's more superior platform, though Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition is more than available on there for purchase now, and obviously this is retail vs digital distribution.

Here's hoping it's not locked into some kind of Microsoft GFWL exclusivity dealie, but we'll likely have to wait until closer to the game's October 21 release for more information on this.

Click here for a glimpse at the box art.

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ravn0s
Posted 12:05pm 17/6/11

the first game is on steam so hopefully this one will be.

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Eorl
Posted 12:28pm 17/6/11

First game had GFWL, didn't phase me.

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Nerfington
Posted 12:32pm 17/6/11

First game indeed had GFWL, however I was able to use an offline account due to not being able to connect. Pretty pissy that if I ever do get GFWL to work, I won't be able to transfer my GTA4/Batman saves either. F*** it's a bad platform all round for me.

edit: This is what I get for giving up pirating. :/

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Deviouz
Posted 02:26pm 17/6/11

Just hoping no SecuROM thats mad be have to pirate and crack many games I bought.

1st one had GFWL seemed to be ok

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Lewk
Posted 05:16pm 17/6/11

The first game was the first time I had dealt with GFWL. It was the worst game install I have ever encountered. I first had to download the GFWL client. Then had to creat a GFWL account. Then enter a cd-key, then it forced me to download a GFWL client patch, then a game patch, followed by entering the cd-key in game yet again. I was not impressed. Considering with any steamworks title you can just run the game as soon as it's available, no cd-keys, no crappy 3rd part software installs, no client and game patches during login with a game... I'm not at all impressed with this news.

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skythra
Posted 05:26pm 17/6/11

Just hoping no SecuROM thats mad be have to pirate and crack many games I bought.

What the f*** did you just say?

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ravn0s
Posted 05:43pm 17/6/11

i didn't have any problems with GFWL when i first played arkham asylum. it was my first time using it so i created an account and was playing the game within a couple of minutes.

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 06:18pm 17/6/11

i didn't have any problems with GFWL when i first played arkham asylum. it was my first time using it so i created an account and was playing the game within a couple of minutes.

Same. I even used a torrent version to try, then bought a key and went from there without troubles.

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infi
Posted 06:59pm 17/6/11

it's not a deal breaker for me.

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