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Just when you thought awards season was over...

Last month we announced our Game of the Year award winners by genre, platform and overall game of the year, but we weren’t through showcasing the best that 2011 had to offer.  With so many games deserving of the moniker Game of the Year we have decided to expand our awards ceremony into 2012 with the 2011 Supplemental Awards.  These awards seek to recognize games that excelled in a specific area whether it be through technical achievement, sheer enjoyability or utter disappointment.

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And no, you can't dress Bruce Wayne up like Santa.

Rocksteady wants you to enjoy the holidays by dropping from the housetops on henchmen skulls in style.  They've announced that they'll be making a new suit available for the World's Greatest Detective based on Batman Inc.  Here's a quote from their announcement on the official website:

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360 missing save file glitch is affecting many gamers.

Games are getting bigger and bigger these days, and even with an army of QA testers it’s impossible to find every error and glitch. Normally the ones that don’t get through are harmless. At the worst you may have to reload a save file. But sometimes, you end up with a problem that can really ruin a gaming experience. That seems to be the case for a large number of gamers playing through the Xbox 360 version of Batman: Arkham City, as an odd glitch seems to be causing players to lose their save data.

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A new deal will make Origin more competitive in the digital distribution market.

EA has announced today that its digital distribution platform, Origin, will be adding a boatload of new, popular titles from publishers Warner Bros. Interactive, THQ and Capcom Entertainment, Inc.  Beginning next month, Origin will play host to hotly anticipated PC version of Batman: Arkham City, Saints Row: The Third and more.

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One of the best games this year, period.

Seldom is there a licensed game as good as Batman: Arkham City. It succeeds in all of the areas that Arkham Asylum failed, while also keeping the fantastic ambiance, gameplay, and loyalty to the Batman franchise that we came to expect from the original. Pretty much every time I picked it up I easily ended up dropping at least three hours into the game and had no desire to put it down. I will go as far to say that Batman: Arkham City is not only the best comic based game ever, but a contender for game of the year.

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