As you already may notice, illegal copy of Batman Arkham Asylum PC version emerged on torrents trackers.

We do not recommend to download it, as many sources indicate that this version is buggy, unstable,  is missing some features and most important – GPU PhysX content is broken.

And remember – pirating games is bad, m’kay ?

User Keysplayr over at AnandTech forums is doing interesting research – he is testing recent hardware accelerated PhysX games (like Batman and Cryostasis) with various GPU configurations (single and different dedicated cards), trying to find out what GPU is best suited as dedicated PhysX accelerator.

Click to view Keysplayr’s article

Be sure to check it regularly, as more content is coming.

Discussion thread at AnandTech forums

According to High Tech Legion, WJPF news radio will be airing interview with Nvidia regarding PhysX technology at September 6, 2009, 1 PM CST (GMT-6).

Live stream will be accessible via WJPF website

Additionally, recorded interview will be available for HTL readers, along with some extra materials.

Source: Hi Tech Legion

We gonna try to launch something new today – weekly (every wednesday) overview of most interesting and informative PhysX related videos, which we’ve picked out from  YouTube, Vimeo, and others free video hosting services – called WeeklyTube.

This week YouTube is fully packed with copies of Batman: Arkham Asylum PhysX trailer – you can see it in a post below. Let’s find out what passed unnoticed.

Cloth + Tearing by Mike20151

Interesting video, showing tearable cloth physics inside PhysX SDK. This scene is not included with standart SDK package, but custom made.

Joint Task Force PhysX Trailer 1/2 by Sonnensurfer

Echo from the past. Originally, PhysX SDK based RTS title Joint Task Force was supposed to support Ageia PPU hardware acceleration, but in fact only this trailer remain as result.

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Gamersdomain.org (along with other websites) has revealed new trailer for Batman: Arkham Asylum, which seems to be official promo video from Nvidia.

Variety of GPU PhysX effects can be seen there, like good old dynamic paper, steam, different types of destructible objects and cloth simulation.

New PhysX screenshots are also available, you can find them, for example, here

Finally, you can check out our PhysX comparison video for Batman: Arkham Asylum demo, if you haven’t seen it yet.

PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum will be released on September 18.