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Can you believe that just one week ago, we couldn’t catch Pokemon on Google Maps?  And we didn’t know how badly we need a Blizzard tournament fighter?  It was a world without Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  A world where former Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig wasn’t yet attached to the next big Star Wars game.  A world in which five-year-olds were widely believed (unjustly) to be unable to crack the security on an Xbox One.  It was truly a time of darkness and ignorance.

Good thing we had these games to keep us warm at night.

Whatever you thought about Batman: Arkham City, it’s pretty hard to deny that it’s a damn fine game with a damn fine world to live in.  I mean, Gotham is not exactly a new thing, but there’s a Right Way to do Gotham and a Wrong Way, and developer Rocksteady’s pretty much been nothing but Right Way so far.

So I jumped on the new DLC pack Harley Quinn’s Revenge as quickly as I could.  Unlike most of the game’s previous DLC, which consisted of challenge maps, alternate costumes, and new playable characters like Nightwing, Revenge is a chunk of proper gameplay, an all-new 2-hourish installment in the Arkham story.  It’s an epilogue to Arkham City‘s kind of shocking and definitely controversial final moments.  So I’m gonna say it now: spoilers for Arkham City inside.

Happy New Year, Tappers!  (That’s what you call yourselves, right? Like, when you go to Tap-Repeatedly conventions and such?)  Needless to say, 2011 was a big year for games.  Loads of eagerly-awaited releases, some great surprises, and just general all-around awesomeness.  These days, it’s not hard to point out a really well crafted game from the last year; it’s probably a bit harder to narrow that down to five or ten. But we here at …

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.. I’ll start with the good news. We finally have a fixed date for the PC version of Batman: Arkham City. Now to the bad news. It’s a full month away. On today of all days, when the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions launch across North America and just three days before the UK launch, Warner Brothers have confirmed that PC gamers will need to wait until November 18 to go hands on with …