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So I've been playing Arkham City a bit (shuddup) and because I'm a completionist that's totally by choice and not just an undiagnosed case of ADD, I puchased Nightwing today. What I saw was a man with shaggy hair and a mask that could have been designed by the same people who make Elton John's glasses. He's wearing a tight, black body suit and is standing in a room of beefy thugs (some of which are wearing makeup and lipstick). He's got a thick lipped smirk and he *winks*. And like that I decide to never play as Nightwing again. Animated Nightwing through a Johnnie Walker filter will do instead. Meanwhile playing the new maps as Batman and

I wonder what constitutes a "great American/Australian/Generalisation novel", if surely beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is equally true to the written word. Is it a question of poetic description or genre? Can a novel only be great if it satisfies the basic hunger or yearning for the elements we all strive for: fulfilment, contentment, satisfaction of overcoming adversary? Is it true to originality? Is it impossible for a franchise to produce a great novel? Maybe a novel can only be great if admired by the majority of the public. The difference between a blockbuster film and a small, low budget flick which only captures a cult fo

When exactly did game developer's try really hard to get us into shape? I know the general gamer sterotypes are "couch potatoes" or some other type of living room vegetable, but why did they suddenly decide to make us… healthy? Wii Fit was the first – let's face it, it was pretty fun and the sales reflected that. You could even cheat to a degree like most games – you dont have to really run up and down with the wiimote in your pocket, pressing the A button did the same thing. Then they made Playstation Move (which is kinda funny, because they first looked at Nintendo's Wiimote and said it was like a lollipop… so what's t