That of course would still mean the fruits of their labor would be several years off, as game development is anything but a fast process, but I think, worst case scenario, that would be what we would be looking at.
So assuming that they are going to go back to Batman at some point in some form, we could only be a year or two away from Principal development on a new Batman game beginning from either of these developers. While Rocksteady’s is aiming for next year. Montreal’s game is aiming to be released this year, while Rocksteady’s is aiming for next year. While it is true that the two developers most known for the modern Batman games are working on different games, those two games are relatively close to being released. With no real substantial amount of time passing over the last couple of decades without a game featuring Batman, I wouldn’t put a lot of money on that trend going away. But with their next game being a Suicide Squad game, that, so far, does not seem to involve Batman, and WB Games Montreal, the team behind Arkham Origins working on Gotham Knights, a game that is not set in the Arkham timeline but possibly involves Batman, you wouldn’t be blamed for wondering when exactly the next true Batman game will come out. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, as those are all excellent games. The last decade has seen them release three Batman focused games (four, if you count Batman Arkham VR). Whether you think this is a good thing or not is up to you but there is no denying that we’ve been fairly saturated with Batman stuff over the last few years and it would make sense for everyone to just step back from him a little bit and take a bit of a break.Īt the very least, it seems that Rocksteady certainly believes that. That said, it does seem that, at least in the video game world, we’re starting to lay off that IP in favor of other things in the DC Universe that may or may not involve Batman but just not being centered around him. lots of movies, comics, and video games have been released starring the Dark Knight and most of that has been received well if not extremely well. The Batman IP has been through a lot over the last 10 years or so.