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Batman: Arkham Knight players get two obscure costumes as a festive gift

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The superhero equivalent of a Christmas sweater.

Batman's having a bad suit day.
(Image credit: Rocksteady)

Rocksteady's Batman trilogy came to an end in 2015, with the sometimes-excellent Batman: Arkham Knight (our review suggested launched in an absolute state on PC, to the extent it had to be pulled from Steam, most issues were long-ago fixed and I had no problems when playing it a year or so after release.

The game eventually received a bunch of DLC, including some which aren't even that old. Anyway: Rocksteady has now released both of these skins to all players.

Yes they are ugly! Zur En Arrh Batman might look like a bad Robin cosplayer, but in fact he's an alien Batman that Grant Morrison later retconned into being a backup personality. Not my favourite Batman run of all time, that. The gaudy colours are apparently because, unlike standard shadow-dwelling Batman, he likes a ruck.

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Zur-En-Arrh in all his clashing glory. (Image credit: DC Comics)

With Anime Batman, the clue's in the title weebs, but what on Earth is going on with that collar. These boys look like they belong on a catwalk, not Gotham.

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Rich Stanton
Rich Stanton
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Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before ing PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."