DC Comics has developed exclusive Batman content for both video games and a daily online Batman comic strip that will appear this fall on AOL's new KOL (Kids On Line) service.  The content is based on a new villain, Sin Tzu, created by Jim Lee and Flint Dille.  A contemporary high tech gloss on Sun Tzu, the brilliant Chinese author of The Art Of War, Sin Tzu is a modern master of the art of war who scours the world in search of worthy adversaries only to settle on Gotham City's Dark Knight.  Developed by Lee and Dille for Ubi Soft's new Batman: Rise Of Sin Tzu videogame, Sin Tzu will also provide the main adversary for Batman in the online serialized daily comic strip produced by Mark Schultz and Rick Burchett for AOL.

The Batman: Rise Of Sin Tzu video game has received a lot positive notices on game sites around the web, but Ubi Soft is taking no chances with the launch of this key product by providing early-buying consumers with exclusive promotional items.  Thirty thousand exclusive Mattel figures (15,000 Batgirl figures and 15,000 Batman figures) will be given away free on a first come, first served basis at Game Stop and Electronic Boutique stores to those who purchase the Ubi Soft game.  The same chains will offer customers a limited number of an exclusive Sin Tzu lithographs designed by Jim Lee.  The lithos are available, while supplies last, to those who buy the Batman: Rise Of Sin Tzu for the Nintendo Game Cube.