DC News! Bat-games, Bat-cartoons and Super-movies!

The rain pours in, ruthless, in cacophony.
The Bat-symbol shines in the night.
I look upon Robin, the kid smiles at me.

It's time to check out some upcoming Bat-stuff. Oh, and there's some Superman in there too.
First up, Batman: Arkham City!
Nightwing was rumored for quite some time as yet another playable character (missed the previous ones? Catwoman and Robin are in there too!)
Since the achievements/trophies list was leaked earlier this week, Nightwing was finally confirmed to have at least some bonus (dlc?) challenge maps and a little solo campaign.
It's is now official thanks to the following pictures:

Concept arts:

In-game model:

Nice to see they were finally able to make some hair for these Unreal engine-running 3D character models.
Yeah, after all these extra-muscular thugs and skinhead-Robin, I kinda feared for Nightwing had he been revealed to be redesigned that way too...

I'm smelling DCnU "The New 52" red-ysh Nightwing and Bruce Timm's cartoon Nightwing as alternate costumes :P

Here's also a Robin-centric trailer!

Some Avatar items were also made available for Xbox Live Marketplace.

I sure as heck won't be getting those, but it's always nice to have a look a' 'em just for kicks:

Why does this Harley Quinn suit looks better than the in-game model? Oh wait, domino mask + headgear-thingie. Also the overall costume isn't as "slutty".

Meanwhile, Warner Bros just clarified information regarding the upcoming new Batman cartoon show and more!

It will be shown in a new cartoon block on Cartoon Network called DC Nation in 2012-13.

This CGi animated Bat-cartoon will be titled Beware the Batman!! 

And I quote:

Along with Beware The Batman, Cartoon Network viewers can expect to see an assortment of other DC Comics content soon including Batman claymation shorts from Aardman Animation (Wallace and Gromit), Plastic Man shorts, Doom Patrol shorts, and Super Best Friends Forever, a series of Batgirl/Supergirl/Wonder Woman shorts by the creator of The Hub's My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic animated series.

Plastic Man shorts!!! Doom Patrol shorts!!!
Well, if we won't be getting these character (with butchered redesigns) in the current DCnU, at least we'll be able to get them somewhere else :P

Promo pic

It will be like Green Lantern, in CGi, as you can sort of guess from the picture above.

It's sort of a departure from previous Batman cartoons be it in form or in content. Featuring a strange new team mechanic, Bats is seen above alongside Alfred sporting guns and DC Comics' Katana. Weird. Though it is nice to see some modern established villains like Professor Pyg and Mister Toad and what I and most people guess to be Batwoman's sister Alice on the far top left corner.

Though the stylized look give it a look kinda reminiscent of that early 2000s cartoon The Batman.

Finally, on Superman's side...

Here's the first pic, from the shooting of Superman: Man of Steel, of Russel Crowe as Jor-El!
Someone caught this while the guy was having a break:

Mmh... I dunno for you but this screams a lot more RIDDICK to me rather than KRYPTON.
Silly modern movies and their colorless costumes...