We have some good news for the PC version of Batman Arkham City. At a recent Warner Bros event we managed to wheedle out a little PC morsel to chew on.

We saw Arkham City running on a huge cinema screen - it was Warner Bros after all - and Arkham City looked spectacularly moody, nicely detailed (not anti-aliased, but no surprise there) and suitably Dark Knight dark in style. Jax Dinn, our RockSteady Studios chaperone ran us through the first chapter of Arkham City and while doing so he had this to say about the PC version: "If you've got a powerful rig and you turn everything up it looks just beautiful."

Okay, not awe-shattering stuff from Jax Dinn (who aside from having a very cool name makes a living out of making things sound cool, when he's not actually saying anything new at all -  pesky media training). We already know that the game will look pretty on most platforms as it's powered by the latest version of the Unreal Engine 3.

We decided to push for some more from Mr Jax "I Have a Cool Name" Dinn: "I've always been a console player, but this game makes me want to be a PC gamer. What we play on is the PC build more often in the studio and it just looks amazing ... We try to develop them [360 and PS3] in parity, but the PC build has a life of its own."

Rocksteady Studios has promised some proper, yet so far undisclosed, attention for the PC version of the game. The PC's "life of its own" won't extend to extra game features though, we've been told that's not happening, but high-end PCs should be in for something bat-tastic.

Wouldn't it be shocking if it had DirectX 11 support at launch?

Batman Arkham Asylum will be out in the UK on 21 October and available on PC.

http://pcformat.techradar.com/blog-entry/batman-arkham-city-developer-says-game-makes-me-want-be-pc-gamer-04-04-11

well they are nice words, but who cares it's the god damn Batman!

I kind of expected it honestly. But its nice to know. They did an awesome job with the AA's PC version.

well as long as you hav an Nvidia card anyway...

This.

That and Bumpgate should be held against Nvidia forever.

Oh and being a games for windows live game did it no favors, lost my bloody save twice thanks to that load of crap.

Eh, I mean... better graphics are like the least important the things PC does better then consoles.

Now if they were talking mod support...

Did they get the memo that PC gamers give a shit to something other than graphics?

Wonder if it's like those Wii cases where things feel like they're set up to fail just so they can say "Hey we tried!"

Even though they totally didn't try.

That's niceto hear for PC exclusive players, like my friend.  But I'm still gonna get the game on PS3 since I got Arkham Asylum on PS3.  They practically forced people to just to get the playable Joker content.

I hope they don't switch it this time and go 'exclusive Two-Face and Joker playable characters for the PC version only'.