Arkham City’s Robin is Tim Drake, available as a playable character to those who pre-order from Best Buy.

You may have heard about DC Comic’s plan to reboot and relaunch the majority of its titles this September. This is the cover of the rebooted Batman #1, artwork by Greg Capullo.

Note the new appearance of The Riddler, with the “?” shaved in his head. Also featured on the cover are Scarecrow, Two Face, Killer Croc and the relatively new super-villain Mr Pyg.

An insider has reportedly leaked Tom Hardy’s role in the forthcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises: Hugo Strange.

Rumoured to be in the running for the lead female roles:

Anne Hathaway, Kiera Knightley, Blake Lively, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz. Nolan is reported to be casting two roles: love interest and villain.

BIG rumour doing the rounds that there is a new Live-Action Batman TV series in development. The project is reportedly being overseen by the same executive responsible for Friends, Two and a Half Men, The Mentalist, ER, and The West Wing.

Warner Bros. wants Karl Urban of the latest Star Trek movie (who played Bones) as Batman.

The series is planned for after The Dark Knight Rises and would continue the tone of the Nolan-helmed movies. Also mentioned is the possible return of the Joker, but in a way that wouldn’t step on the toes of Heath Ledger’s interpretation of the role.

Christopher Nolan has revealed the title of the sequel to the Dark Knight in an interview with Hero Complex:

The Dark Knight Rises

Nolan also revealed the new villain will not be The Riddler, and that the movie will NOT be shot in 3D.

DC Universe Online’s character designs for Scarecrow have been revealed. The game is scheduled early 2011 for both the PC and thePlayStation 3.

The official description of Scarecrow:

In the right hands, Fear can be a weapon….

Jonathan Crane was a skinny, awkward kid who got bullied often because he reminded people of Ichabod Crane, from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. As he grew older, Crane became obsessed with the essence of fear, hopefully in an effort to conquer his own phobias. This obsession put him on the academic fast track at Gotham University.

But Crane sabotaged his career by using his students as unwilling subjects in his dangerous fear-based experiments. He was dismissed from the university by the board of regents for his unorthodox methods. In an act of revenge, Crane put his knowledge of fear to work, creating a fear gas, dressing himself in straw and sackcloth and adopting the guise of The Scarecrow.

His quest to heighten and instill fear in Gotham has often run afoul of Batman, attempting to root out any anxiety or phobia that would bring him down. But Batman has faced him down countless times and in the process, Crane has become victim to an ironic type of fear, chiropteraphobia…

…Fear of bats.

Moviehole is reporting that Christopher Nolan has been looking for a female lead for the next Batman Film:

Several young (“Late 20’s, early 30’s”) ladies are meeting with the Caped Crusader’s resuscitator this week to talk about the new film. Interestingly enough, quite a few of the ladies don’t actually know what role they’re being asked to read for/meet Nolan about.

Of course, Internet speculation has come to the conclusion that Nolan is casting for Catwoman. Nobody has concrete information about this yet, but when they do you’ll find the information right here.

Interactive stop motion dance-off between Batman and The Joker! Via @traviscommeau.

According to Deadline, Tom Hardy is reteaming with Christopher Nolan for the sequel to The Dark Knight.

Superhero Hype:

“Insiders are keeping the role secret and won’t even say if he’s up for a villain role, but that seems a reasonable assumption,” says the site.