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I’ll kick things off with another Arkham City Villain trailer. It really does feel like it did with Arkham Asylum now, with new villain showcases every month or so. Nothing so far has really captured my attention as much as when they first showed off Killer Croc, Bane and Scarecrow’s new designs for AA, but AC does seem to be putting together a decent gallery of rogues for Batman to take down. The more I see of Arkham City the more I remember all of the good stuff from Arkham Asylum, and there was a lot of good stuff. Hopefully AC manages to pull off improving all of the strongest parts of AA while mixing in the new free-roam city-exploring elements that are sure to set the two games apart.

And in completely different news, we’re not only a few months away from the release of yet another Dragon Ball Z game, there’s also a new Naruto title to look forward to. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, while having a rather wordy and grand title, looks set to follow in the footsteps of the Dragon Ball Z Budokai and Tenkaichi games by tweaking it’s gameplay a bit and then throwing in as much fanservice as they can before calling it a day. Admittedly this does tend to work for most fans, including yours truly. I’m not really a big Naruto fan but I picked up Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 and found it surprisingly decent, though the genuinely impressive boss battles stand head and shoulders above the rest of the game. Generations’ selling point is the inclusion of characters from all throughout the show’s timeline, including both young and adult forms of most of the cast as well as long-dead villains and a host of new characters. Naruto fans will probably eat this up, even if it is nothing they haven’t really seen before. Maybe including me, although there might be a few too many AAA titles due out between now and Christmas to spare money on a fanservicey rehash. Here’s the first trailer anyway, now already a few months old in true GamerZee style.

Speaking of AAA titles due out between now and Christmas, Bethesda have finally started rolling out more and more Skyrim screenshots and information, and with every nugget I become more and more enticed by what, for my money, seems like a sure-fire winner of many Game of the Year awards. Just about every aspect of the game seems to have been improved over Oblivion, especially the graphics. The last few days have seen the release of countless screenshots of characters by the journalists invited to take the demo for a spin as it’s been doing the rounds at gaming conventions over the last few months. Judging by the host of characters seen so far, Skyrim’s character creation seems far more flexible and user-friendly than Oblivion’s, and the character models are far more attractive. Granted Oblivion is a five year old game already so it can probably be cut some slack, but frankly graphics were never it’s strong suit. In conclusion, start getting your Elder Scrolls hype on baby.

And to end on a bit more of a downer, WWE Pay-Per-View SummerSlam saw the release of a tidal wave of roster reveals and screenshots for upcoming WWE ’12. It’s looking, as always, slightly better than the last one. But with how much WWE All Stars spoiled me with it’s bright and bold designs, fluid animations and smooth gameplay, I don’t think WWE ’12 can really pull out anything that’ll win me over. C’est la vie.

If you’ve taken anything away from this it should be that you should really be looking forward to Skyrim.

Zee.

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