Playing The Name Game With Arkham Asylum 2

Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 was the big gaping hole at this year’s E3. Everybody was expecting to hear at least something about the highly-anticipated sequel to what is undoubtedly the greatest comic-book hero video game to ever be made. Alas, the Dark Knight was nowhere to be seen but out of nowhere a list of provisional domain names have popped up, lending some possible clues to what we can expect in Arkham Asylum 2 besides a different name.

Here’s the  full list of 15 domain names:

• http://whois.domaintools.com/arkhamcity.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmanarkhamcity.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmanashesofgotham.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmanbrokenground.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmannewarkham.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmangranddelusion.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmanriseofarkham.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmansiegeofgotham.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/batmanstateofvillainy.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/cityofarkham.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/closearkhamcity.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/peopleforgotham.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/stopmayorsharp.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/waringothamcity.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/wheresbrucewayne.com

Not all of them seem to be potential titles for the game though, some appear to just be clues to some of the major themes of the game. ‘Grand delusion’ and ‘wheres bruce wayne’ seem to hint at more psychological manipulation in AA2 as well as what could be some personal issues for Bruce to deal with. Just about every other domain name suggests a sort of prison state with the whole of Gotham City in a state of civil unrest and violence. It also looks like the whole city is going to be overrun with villains and convicts from the sound of some of the names.

As far as the title of the sequel is concerned, I would spring for something like Batman: Ashes of Gotham or Batman: Siege of Gotham but Broken Ground isn’t too bad either.

Name: A-G Sonday
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