John DeMarco (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

John DeMarco was a member of the G.C.P.D's S.W.A.T team. He had been imprisoned after being convicted of drug use.

Prior to Christmas Eve, the G.C.P.D's I.A.D was planning to investigate his unit for corruption.  He discovered that one of his team mates, Nate Ramo was planning a plea that would supply evidnece on the entire team for corruption, which semented evidence that the I.A.D could not find. He decided to kill Ramo to silence him.

On Christmas Eve, DeMarco committed hit and run, however lost control of his car in the blizzard and crashed near the G.C.P.D building. He fled the scene before he was discovered and searched Ramo's house to find anything that would incriminate him.

Batman later learns of DeMarco's involvement in the murder, due to the paint residue found at the scene matching the residue on his car. 

DeMarco meets with the rest of his team, who care more about the fact that they could be found out aboyut corruption rather than the death of their team mate. He was confident that after the I.A.D had finished, the team would be back to work. 

Batman hears all this and interrogates him after defeating the rest of S.W.AT. He tells DeMarco as he addmitted to the murder, he would be given a life imprisonment. But DeMarco says that evidence tends to go missing in the G.C.P.D. Batman tells him that this evidence won't go missing, sending the G.C.P.D evidence of the murder and a taped confession which Alfred had recorded during the interrogation.

Ian Chase (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Ian Chase is a socialite and an acquaintance of Bruce Wayne. He is also was a member of Black Mask's gang.

Chase attended a Halloween Party thrown at Wayne Manor, where he was kicked out by Wayne after harassing  Clarissa Rodriguez (who he later killed on Christmas Eve)

On Christmas Eve Chase switched sides from Black Mask's gang, to join the Joker, who had taken over Sionis' operation. He later went to Crime Alley, where he shot and killed Clarissa and her fiancee, Horace Riley in the same spot that Thomas and Martha Wayne had been murdered, out of jelousy for Clarissa agreeing to marry Riley. Chase cleaned the scene up, however missed a bullet case that had rolled away in a grate. 

Batman deduces Chase as the killer and tracks him down in the Industrial district, where he proceeds to beat him nealy to death in anger. Batman leaves him for the G.C.P.D, along with evidence to stand him on trial for the murder.

Andrew Carter (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Andrew Carter is a criminal who suffers from paranoia and delusions. He was a prisoner in Blackgate Prison and upon his release in November, was ordered to attend court-appointed anger management therapy.

Prior to Christmas Eve, he stopped attending the sessions and went looking for Bane's gang with an interest to becoming a member.

On Christmas Eve, he was supplied venom and tasked as an initiation to kill Matthew Kadi, which he does by throwing an air conditioning unit at him. After the murder, he was ordered to wait for Bane's instructions.

Batman discovered his involvement and tracked him down and, after getting no answer in interrogation, beat him unconscious and leaving him and the evidence for the police.
 

Alex Cane (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Alex Cane was an arm's dealer, who worked as a henchman for the Penguin. He is used as the messanger between Penguin and associates he supplies weapons to. He had a criminal record with priors including assault and carrying of concealed firearms, prior to his death on Chrsitmas Eve.

On Christmas Eve, Cane and Qing Lu, a martial artist who was one of Penguin's top henchmen, were waiting in the Coverntry District for an arms deal. However Lu betrays him and shoots him through the heart out of jelousy and a desire to advance through the ranks. Just before he dies, Cane throws a Molotov cocktail to try and take Lu with him, but the latter escapes. 

His body is later discovered by Batman, who uses the evidence in the scene to locate Lu and passes the information about the murder and a captured Lu to the G.C.P.D.

Chucky Berks (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Chucky Berks was a counterfeiter working on Christmas Eve.

Berks was working at Dixon Docks for a mob on a counterfeiting scheme, which was captured on camera by the investigative journalist Owen Grant. Berks shot Grant, who had pictures of him on his camera after spotting him, however grew scared when he could not locate it.

Berks along with the gang go the Diamond District, where he tries to persuade them to locate the camera before the G.C.P.D locate it. However Batman arrives, who had learnt from the cameras photo about Berks involvement and after being subdued and interrogated is left for the G.C.P.D with evidence against him on Grant's murder.

John F. Baker (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

John F. Baker was a low-level thug who had a criminal record of minor crimes including robbery and breaking and entering.

On Christmas Eve, Baker was hired by Enigma to booby trap an access panel to the Coventry G.C.R Tower. He installed an explosive that was rigged to detonate when a Gotham Optics key card was swiped across it. His hand print was left on the keypad, which led Batman to discovering his involvement in the crime, which resulted in the death of technician David Shannon.

He was later found dead by the G.C.P.D (most likely by Enigma to tie up loose ends) in the Diamond District.

David Shannon (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

David Shannon was an engineer and technician, who worked for Gotham  Optics. He died on Christmas Eve in the Coventry G.C.R Tower, while on a call out to fix it.

Shannon was sent out by the company to fix a faulty network in the Coventry Tower on Christmas Eve. When he swiped his access card to gain access to the main tower, he triggered a booby trap set up by John F. Baker (on orders of Enigma.) The key card scanner explodes, sending him flying across the room and hitting the wall, killing him with the impact. 

Batman discovers his body when he finds the tower is throwing out a jamming signal that is interfering with the Batwing, while flying for Penguin's Bowery arm deal. He uses the access card to be able to take control of the access panels and identified the murderer being Baker (who was found dead by G.C.P.D an hour earlier in the Diamond District.) He tells Alfred to contact the G.C.P.D to investigate the body and crime.

Bryan Murphy (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Bryan Murphy is an account manager, who worked for the Gotham Merchant's Bank, prior to his death on Christmas Eve.

Prior to his death, he was working with a notorious Gotham Conn-ma, Robert Hanes in pulling off an insurance scam against the bank. In return for the accout details, he would get a share of the profit. However he had a change of heart and planned to contact the G.C.P.D or a superior to put a stop to it.

On Christams Eve, Hanes pushed him through a broken stone railing, where he fell to his death in the Bowery district. He was carrying a briefcase with paperwork, which captured Hanes Dna, pinning him to the crime. He dies instantly from a high volacity impact when he makes contact with the ground.

Batman discovers his body and the briefcase later that night and sends information of the scam and a captured Robert Hanes to the G.C.P.D, after hearing about the bodies discovery on the police radio station.

Harleen Quinzel (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Asylum

Harleen Quinzel attended the Gotham University, where she got a degree in psychology. After this she became an intern at Blackgate Prison, under Professor Hugo Strange.

Strange had her call Alberto Falcone, one of his patients, to tell him that he missed two appointments for their sessions. She gives him a subtle threat that if he doesn't continue with the appointments, she will tell Carmine Falcone, his father, that his son has an untreated medical condition.

Her residency at Blackgate was coming up to its completion around the Christmas Eve period and she was tasked to do an assessment on Jullian Gregory Day, the Calendar Man. After a psychological evaluation, she deemed that Day was insane and could not be exacuted, handing her report in to Warden Martin Joseph. However Joseph tells her to redo the report him as sane, which he maniulates her into doing by saying it will make the city safer and they will thank her for it. She agrees on the condition that she is given  full access the new criminals entered into the asylum. When Joesph asks why she would want to spend any more time with the patients, she says the criminal mind is "fascinating" and would make a good topic for research papers and books. 

This led her to the Joker, who was arrested by the G.C.P.D and sent to Blackgate. She began their interview, telling him that it was a bad day and the cops of the city were "always beating on the sick and defenceless." He asks her if she ever had a "really bad day." They go through numerous word associatrion games with the word "fate" getting information about his "origin" (whether it is true or not is unknown- based on The Killing Joke.) He begins manipulating her feelings when he says he met someone that night, whose name he didn't know and she introduces herself. He says it's a pretty name and asks if her friends call her Harley, but she replies that she doesn't have a lot of friends. Joker tells her he has one know and she touches his arm affectionatly.

She is taken hostage in the Prison Nexus after the Joker escapes, with the prisoners implying that she had supplied the codes needed for the escape. Batman frees her and she tells him that the Joker is waiting for him in the Panopticon.

After the Joker has been apprahended, he is taken back to his cell laughing at how Batman had stopped Bane's heart, while Harley watches with a smile.

Qing Lu (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins 

Qing Lu is a henchman for the Penguin and is one of his best hit men. He is highly trained at martial arts.

Lu worked for an arms dealer Alex Cane, who also was one of Penguin's henchmen. He eventually grew tired and decided to kill him.

During an arms deal on Chrstmas Eve, Lu shot and killed Cane in the heart so he could advance further up in Penguin's gang. However Cane throws a Molatov cocktail at him, before he dies, in an effort to kill him as well. Lu is forced to escape over a wall and up a ladder, which leads to part of the ladder coming away from the wall and his fingerprints being left at the scene of the crime.

He returns to the Final Offer, where he brags about killing Cane to some of Penguin's henchmen as Cane had become "lazy." He also offers to do jobs like Cane used to do.

Batman arrives after scanning the finger prints on the ladder and subbues Li, who whilst being interrogating, says that if Penguin had known he was responsible for Cane's death he would have ended up being killed. Batman knocks him out and sends a message to the police along with the evidence to backup the murder so they can come and arrest him.

Quincy Sharp (Batman Arkham Origins)

Tom Kane

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Asylum

Quincy Sharp was a policitcal activist, who had a deep dislike of criminals.

At some point prior to Christmas Eve, Shiva and Sharp cross paths, who tells him that her "master", Ra's al Ghul, hates criminals and is offering his help to fulfil his dream. Sharp tells her that he "doesn't appreciate you meddling in my business." But Shiva tells him that they only want to help. When he asks how they can be so sure that he can help, which she replies that it will take time. Sharp sees these as strings to become a puppet, but she tells him that it is hardly a string to get the position of Gotham City Mayor and have all the criminals purged from the city. He agrees asking her the name of the facility he is to reopen..... Arkham Asylum.

On Christmas Eve, he is interviewed by Jack Ryder, where he blames the riots at Blackgate to be the fault of the prison and that the city needs a place to help cure those who are mentally ill. He vows to the people of Gotham to have Arkham Asylum opened to be that corectional facility.

(This whole plan is the start of Strange and Ghul's plan to build Arkham City and then have all the criminals destoroyed.)

Tracey Buxton (Batman Arkham Origins)

Laura Waddell

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Tracey is a British henchman who was being groomed by her boss, the Penguin to take over his empire in the event of him not being able to. 

It is most likely that the two met when Cobblepot went to London and slowly become the Penguin.

Penguin tasked her with overseeing the Boiler Deck fight on Christmas Eve, while he tortured Alberto Falcone in his study. When Batman arrives that he is a "naughty gizza" and telling the members of Penguin's crew that he deserves a "royal welcome," introducing Electroctioner (one of the 8 assassins) to the ring. She sends in the troops after his defeat, but goes off to warn Cobblepot that Batman was on the way when the fight looked bad with the crew. Tracey saw Electrocutioner escape, passing on the message that he should "watch his arse."

Batman pursues her to the casino, where she calls him a "persistent pain in me bottle." She tells him that Penguin is not going to be disturbed and seals off the office and the control room. She then tries to get Candy to come and help her, but the latter is to busy in the torture of Falcone. She comments that she deserves a "dry slap." When Batman arrives she attacks him with a baseball bat, but is easily defeated and locked in a small barred room. She tries to get him to release her, telling him that she is claustrophobic.

After Deathstroke is defeated, Tracey is seen to have been released from the cell and has joined Cobblepot in his office, touching him along with Candy (presumably having sex for the rest of the night.)

Candy (Batman Arkham Origns)

Masasa Moyo

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Candy is one of the Penguin's high ranking henchmen. She was raised on Gotham's streets, where she eventually worked to get a business degree. Due to the bad times she had no other choice but to work for Penguin to get any money. Apart from being partnered to the Penguin, she has no record of any criminal activity.

Penguin sends her to go find some information on Roman Sionis and find his connection to the Black Mask. She tells him that Sionis is a big collector for masks.

On Christmas Eve Candy was tasked with overseeing the repairs of the Final Offer after it had been damaged. She wishes everyone of the henchmen a good evning and that they enjoy the fight.

After Batman had defeated many members of the Penguin's crew on the Final Offer, Tracey tries to get her help to fend him off. However she had been in an interrogation with Penguin and Alberto Falcone and was being called back in to the room. She tells her just deal with it, which Tracey deems worthy of a "dry slap."

Penguin asks her to recount what had happened. As she reads from the notes and giving him a wink with "hey baby." She particularly enjoys retelling Penguin that Alberto had called him a "psychotic little bastard." 

While Batman is fighting and trying to interrogate Penguin, Candy takes cover behind the desk. She further watches Batman's fight with Deathstroke. After the fight they both leave with Penguin tounching her bottom in a flirtatious manner.

When Batman tries to get into his office, she appears on a computer monitor with Penguin and Tracey touching him (presumibly leading to them having sex for the rest of the night.)

Tiffany Ambrose (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Tiffany Ambrose was one of Sionis' girlfriends and a drug trafficker (unknown is she still was before her death.)

Several days before Christmas Eve, Sionis sent her to his safe house after believing himself to being targeted. She was scared and texted him to hurry, asking who the Joker was. She goes to the kitchen to put away the bag of groceries that she had bought, but is attacked by the Joker, who slams her head against the counter with enough force to knock her unconscious and make her drop her phone. He tied her hands to the chandelier like an angel and left her for Black Mask to find.

After Joker subdues Sionis and throws the molatov cocktail beneath her and at the body of Luchese she regains consciousness, struggling to free herself and help her boyfriend. Joker forces Roman to shoot her through the heart, killing her instantly.

Batman discovers her body on Christmas Eve along with Giovanni Luchese, Black Mask's body double.

Giovanni Luchese (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Giovanni was a criminal who worked under Black Mask, operating in Gotham City as his body double. He was 31 years old.

Prior to Christmas Eve, Luchese had warrants for assault and assualt with a weapon.

Due to Black Mask's paranoia, Sionis sends Luchese in to his safe house after suspecting that he may be being targeted by someone. Luchese serves as a distraction while Sionis gets the element of surprise on Joker, who shoots him on sight, knowing that he is not the real Sionis. The shot from the Joker kills him instantly going right through his heart. Joker covers up the murder by setting off a Molatov cocktail, which caused charing that made it impossible for anyone to identify the body if it was found. 

Penguin went to Lacey Towers afterwards and discovers the dead body. He checks to see if it really is Black Mask and furiously reacts when he finds out it isn't him as Roman Sionis had a pacemaker and Luchese did not.


Batman discovers his body along with Tiffany Ambrose on Christmas Eve. He is unable identify him as he was wearing a black mask and his skin is burned and charred.  

Batman later learns that he was the male victim in the Lacey Tower murder after using the National Criminal Database to identify the small amount of DNA that survived.

"Alice" (Batman Arkham Origins)

Laura Bailey 

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Sometime prior to Christmas Eve, Jervis Tetch, aka The Mad Hatter kidnapped her and held her hostage in his Hat Shop. He gve her the codename Alice after Alice in Wonderland and dressed her up in a similar style to the classic Lewis Carol Book. It was unclear what he did to her, but it can be presumed that he raped her (judging by her reaction after Batman saved her) and tested his hypnotic work on her.

On Christmas Eve the Mad Hatter contacts Batman, where she calls out  for help. However he silences her, telling him not to mind her as she has "been through alot this evening."

Throughout Batman's vision of Wonderland he sees her running from the Hatter, until he eventually makes it to the Shop's stockroom, where the Hatter holds her at knife point sining that he can help her aslong as he leaves. Batman chucks a Reverse Batarang at him and follows it up by knocking him unconscious. He comforts her when she begins sobbing hysterically telling her she will be alright and that the police are on their way, but she replies by saying "No it's not."

Enigma's Secret Room (Batman Arkham Origins)

Located in Engima's hidden base in Coventary, behind the old Gotham Rail bill board and underground is a room which is completly sealed off to Batman. On Christmas Eve after he destroyed all of Enigma's relay stations and obtained all the data packages, Batman returns and investigates.

The door is password protected with the password "Questions and answers." Inside the room are several prototypes for devices and traps he will eventually go on to use when he becomes the Riddler and sets Batman a challenge to hunt down all of his trophies that he set up around Arkham City. He has circled December 25th on his calendar as part of his plan and has a large notice board with many drawings and notes on Batman and blue prints for more of the gadgets.

At the far end of the room is a sealed off area which holds the first ever riddler trophy that Enigma made for his battles against Batman.

Crash of the Titans (Review)

This game is extremely fun and is well worth investing time to play.

The premise of the game is to rescue Coco from Cortex and stop another one of his evil inventions "The Doom-i- nator." Both Uka-Uka and Cortex have also mutated animals on Whompa Island to become their loyal servants and use them to terrorize Crash and Aku-Aku.

These mutants are brilliant and each have a cool look, ability and are just amazing to hi-jack and control. There is also a multi-player mode, which is cooperative storyline. I have not tested this version properly, but it sounds fun to play with two people.

My favorite character has to be Tiny Tiger, who is just a hilarious, bumbling henchmen in this game with some nice lines. But if you like a comedic character, you will love N-Gin, who has some killer lines as he tries to suck up to his boss.

If you haven't played this game you should as it is just great. It is exciting and has an engaging story mode, overall the effect is spellbinding. 

Injustice Gods Among Us (Video Game) Review

I love this game.... no matter how much it infuriates me when I get shot constantly by Green Arrow from half way across the map. 

This game, coming out in 2013, is like Mortal Combat with Dc Characters. 

Everything about this game is great.I love the story mode, where you basically have to take down an evil, oppressive version of Superman, who has taken over Earth and turned it into his vision of "Justice." The battle's are really intense, taking care to add in little references to the characters for most. The S.T.A.R Labs side missions, although highly annoying for me (as I have the hand-eye coordination of a bear) are still really fun and do help to try and master moves you find hard to achieve in game.

It's multi-player is what really stands out though. It is great not just for the competitive gamer, but anyone who just wants to have a laugh. Whether it's Killer Frost or Shazam, the battles can always go to anyone if they use the right combination. Not what my brother says "It's just a load of hitting buttons."

Overall this is a great game and has gotten me into playing more types of these games.