Holy Pause Button, Batman!

Some more pause screens from Batman: Arkham City.

Back with Batman

Sorry I've been away for so long, things have been hectic with school and work, and I haven't been doing much to blog about the past few weeks. But now I'm getting back into the regular groove again.

I was playing Batman: Arkham City yesterday, and I found some fun little details in the city that I never noticed before.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins is one of Bruce Wayne's confidants in the comics, and runs a medical clinic for Gotham's addicts and criminals in the slums.

As you can see in the top picture, when you look at the police station from a certain distance away, it looks like the Bat Signal is on, but when you zoom in, or move any closer, it turns off.

After Batman and Freeze finish fighting over poison antidote, and discover that Harley Quinn stole it, you can see the hole in the wall she made to take it out of the safe.

 I thought it was funny to see an Arkham mug in the GCPD, as I would expect the Gotham police wouldn't have cared for the place (what with it's lax security and all). Somebody start making these for real!

And here's another pause screen!

World of Warcraft Paintings

I actually haven't played World of Warcraft in a while, due to lack of funds, and an increasing lack of interest, but I still love going through all the screenshots I've taken to remember my exploits by.

Tonight I thought I'd show all the framed paintings I've discovered in W.o.W. There are quite a few different portraits scattered all over, did I miss any?

Have a Seat 2

I've added more World of Warcraft sitting screenshots to Pinterest:

Have a Seat...

Screenshots of my World of Warcraft characters sitting in various chairs. To see more, check out the Pinterest board!

In Gilneas

At Gallywix's Pleasure Palace in Azshara.

In Blackfathom Deeps

In Zangermarsh (in retrospect, I think this is supposed to be a bed)

Unfortunate Screenshots

Some more pics from my earlier days of  World of Warcraft.

Face Your Fears...

Here's another pic from my trip through Lehman Caves. Don't remember Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow being there, it must have been so scary, I blocked it from my memory.

"Pirates of the Carribean Online", A Look Back

I thought I'd kick off the Halloween season with a retrospective of Pirates of the Caribbean Online, a now-defunct MMORPG run by Disney and featuring your favorite Caribbean pirates. It appears someone is remaking the game, but I'll believe it when I see it.

The game had you facing a villain named Jolly Roger, who has the whole Caribbean (and Jack Sparrow specifically) in his sights.

My fondest memories of the game are the invasions, which would happen on a regular basis at certain islands. The sky would turn green, the moon would acquire Jolly Roger's face, then the ships would come, and you would fight of waves of undead and walking trees (don't ask why) until old J.R. himself would show.

Yep, fighting creatures and undead, ship-to-ship combat, getting "killed" then coming to in jail, those were good times.

Arkham Trailers

Since Batman: Arkham Knight is coming out soon, I thought we'd take a look through the history of the Arkham games.

Pause Screens are Cool

These "Pause" screenshots are from Batman: Arkham City. I like how they did away with the highlights and refined the details a bit.