Gotham in a box thanks to Arkham City holiday bundle!

ASUS, NVIDIA and Warner Bros Entertainment have come together to offer gamers one of the biggest fall titles for free - well, free so long as you splurge for a new graphics card! Yes, the Dark Knight/World's Finest Detective returns after straddling countless gargoyles and haranguing numerous Joker thugs in the celebrated Arkham Asylum. This time the playground is a huge part of Gotham herself, and characters like Catwoman and Mr. Freeze are joining the fray. Pretty cool. Mind you, this is the proper version of Gotham, the one from the original comic prints, updated somewhat for modern times. It's not the slapsticky variety, nor the overly-realistic rendition we've seen in Dark Knight. We think this Gotham feels just right, and it'll require a nice new graphics card to do it justice. Starting late September, go to your favorite retailer and get one of these cards from ASUS. the box will have a download voucher for the game inside. Batman: Arkham City promises to up the ante compared to the previous game, with Rocksteady talking about an even longer and more involved single player story mode. There are also a bunch of other gameplay features, but for hardware buffs the biggest deals are native PhysX and 3D Vision, with full DX11 graphics setting the PC version apart from its console peers.   (All game screenshots copyright 2011 Warner Bros Entertainment) Here's the list of graphics cards you can expect to have the game inside. No ROG models, but they're all pretty powerful NVIDIA-based gaming parts, and they all have DirectCU cooling to make Freeze feel right at home: ENGTX580 DCII/2DIS/1536MD5 ENGTX570 DCII/2DIS/1280MD5 ENGTX560 Ti DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 ENGTX560 Ti DCII/2DI/1GD5 ENGTX560 DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 ENGTX560 DCII OC/2DI/1GD5 ENGTX560 Ti DC/2DI/1GD5 ENGTX560 DC/2DI/1GD5