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my email today Dear PowerUp Rewards Gamer,

Unfortunately, due to a manufacturer cancellation, we will be unable to fulfill your preorder for Batman: Arkham Knight Collector’s Edition. Your business is extremely important to us, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this issue may cause.

Please go to the GameStop location where you placed your pre-order and you will receive a full refund of your deposit or it can be rolled over to the standard edition of Batman: Arkham Knight or another product of your choice.

Warner Bros. will be providing all customers who purchase Batman: Arkham Knight with the New 52 skin pack, including Batman, Robin, and Nightwing, free of charge. This skin pack will be downloaded when customers insert their game discs for the first time; no codes needed.

Once again, we are sorry for any inconvenience.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to let us know. You can respond to this email, or if you prefer to speak to someone directly you can call 1 (800) 883-8895. Our hours are 8 AM – 10 PM CST Monday – Saturday, or 8 AM to 8 PM CST on Sundays.

Have a wonderful day,

Your friends at GameStop

Retailers across the US, Europe and Australia are informing customers today that the Batman: Arkham Knight Batmobile Edition has been cancelled. The game itself is due out next week, so this is pretty late notice!

This collector’s edition was supposed to include a copy of the game, some skins, an artbook, a comic and a statue of Arkham Knight’s version of the Batmobile.

It’s that last item—built by Project Triforce—that’s the problem, Warner Bros. saying in a statment:

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Dear Batman: Arkham Fans,

We regret to inform you that we are not able to release the Batmobile Collector’s Edition of Batman: Arkham Knight due to unforeseen circumstances that greatly compromised the quality of this extremely limited run of product. We are deeply apologetic for this unfortunate outcome. If you did pre-order the Batmobile Collector’s Edition, please go to the retail location where you pre-ordered the product and you will receive a full refund of your deposit or it can be rolled over to another Batman: Arkham Knight edition or another product of your choice. We will be providing everyone who purchases Batman: Arkham Knight with the New 52 skin pack, including Batman, Robin and Nightwing, free of charge.

We’ve contacted the manufacturer of the Batmobiles for comment.

Those who had ordered pack are having their purchases refunded, and they can now buy either the standard edition or a lesser collector’s edition.

Here’s a copy of the email sent to Amazon customers:

Hello,

We’re contacting you about your pre-order XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXX for Batman: Arkham Knight Batmobile Edition - PlayStation 4. We recently learned this item will no longer be released by the manufacturer as expected. As a result, we canceled your order and you have not been charged. We apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience this may have caused.

Substitute items are available under different item numbers. To place a new order for the substitute item, you can visit the product detail page here:

Batman: Arkham Knight - PS4 (Standard Edition) - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

Batman: Arkham Knight - Xbox One (Standard Edition) - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

Batman: Arkham Knight - The Serious Edition (Comic Bundle) - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

Batman: Arkham Knight - The Serious Edition (Comic Bundle) - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

To help make up for the inconvenience, we’re giving you a $20 promotional credit. You can redeem this promotional credit by entering in the code below during checkout:

XXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXX

This promotional code will expire on September 30, 2015.

We appreciate your business and hope to see you again soon.

Sincerely,

Customer Service

Amazon.com

In further Batman pre-release news, it’s also been revealed that the game’s “exclusive” pre-order content won’t actually be “exclusive” to preorder customers at all.

Throughout the 6 months of additional Batman: Arkham Knight content, Premium and Season Pass owners will receive all in-game content that is offered through various retail pre-order incentives. This includes the Harley Quinn and Red Hood Story Packs, as well as any Batmobile or Booster Pack that was available as early bonuses for pre-order of the game. For those who did not receive the content with their game, these items will become available when their respective exclusivity windows expire in August/September.

The tl;dr version of this is: Premium Edition & Season Pass owners will receive all retail exclusive DLC after their respective early access periods expire.

well today g4 was delisted from Comcast cable. I just want to say thanks for the memories even though a lot of people didn't like the channel I did for what it was. was it the best or greatest no but at times it was enjoyable and helped some careers along the way. so as I poor out a little of this 40 for u thanks for everything u did and tried to be. god speed!

forza and dead rising as exclusives but everything else u can buy on the other systems.

why did u rush the system and why when ps4 does don't u support 1080i??!! I never said anything about this before hand, the dolby situation u did and waiting on a pach, but not that ur not supporting 1080i. I read you that since sports seem blurry in 1080i u don't support it?!

"1080i

Televisions with 1080i resolution display 1920 x 1080 pixels. This gives the user a 16:9 high definition (HD) viewing area. The "i" in 1080i stands for interlaced scan, which means that half the lines that make up screen images are "redrawn" by your HDTV 60 times a second. Although this technique looks great with most media, fast-moving video, such as sports footage, suffers a slight blur at 1080i. For this reason, Xbox One does not support interlaced resolutions. "

"720p

Televisions with 720p resolution display images at a maximum of 1280 x 720 pixels. This gives the user a 16:9 high definition (HD) viewing area. Although 720p is the lowest resolution of most HDTVs, the picture is still excellent. For a screen smaller than 37 inches, the quality of the images in 720p is nearly indistinguishable from higher resolution HDTV sets. If your HDTV only has 720p and 1080i as the options, you should select 720p for the best resolution for Xbox One."

720p is not 1080 Microsoft! please release a patch for this like ur dumb dolby problem. im so mad