The trailer for the third Batman film in the series "The Dark Knight Rises” has broken Apple’s iTunes download record. Reaching a massive 12.5 million downloads in just 24 hours.

The new Dark Knight Rises is set eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives

in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits. Forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after taking

the fall for Harvey Dent’s crimes. Watch the new Dark Knight Rises trailer after the jump.

The new Dark Knight Rises Batman film is directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and his brother

Jonathan Nolan, and will be the third in Nolan’s Batman series. Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary

Oldman, and Morgan Freeman. The previous iTunes download record was held by Marvel’s The Avengers trailer.

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PlayStation 4 Coming Within 18 Months?

Over the last few years, many would agree that nothing of real awesomeness was seen at E3 in LA. The games were cool, but the hardware was lacking for the most part. That may all change in 2012. E3 2012 is shaping up to be one of the biggest shows it has had in years.

The rumors are pointing to Sony getting ready to offer up new details at the show on the next generation PlayStation. At the same time, Microsoft is tipped to be talking about the next Xbox as well. Neither firm is expected to do much more than tease though.

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