Pay $200 Get Batman Arkham Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum is really quite good - find out how good here. But is it good enough to make you fall for a 'GET IT FREE' offer such as the one that Nvidia in the USA is doing. Yes, the deal that's being 'reported' widely as 'Get Arkham Asylum Free' is simply a 'buy a card and get AA thrown in'.

The details, "Get the definitive version of Batman: Arkham Asylum with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ technology support and enhanced GPU-accelerated NVIDIA® PhysX® effects. For a limited time only, purchase a qualifying GeForce GTX 260, GeForce GTX 275 or GeForce GTX 285 graphics card and receive a coupon good for the digital download of Batman Arkham Asylum, PC version.

"This coupon is valid between Sept 15, 2009 through December 31, 2009 or while supplies last."

So, yes, technically, once you've paid Amazon (for example) $194.78 for a "eVGA e-GeForce GTX260 SC 896MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card with Free Special Edition EVGA Precision Overclocking Utility" or maybe paid Newegg $499 for a GTX 295, you get Arkham Asylum from September 15th for no extra money.

You could, of course, wait until September 18th, nip down to your local retailer and pay £24.