Sadly, The Batman Isn’t Adding a Game to Its Epic Crime Saga

It’s been a portion since we’ve had a full-fledged Batman game for console. While the Arkham sub-series is continuing with Batman: Arkham Shadow, it sounds similar we’ll proceed waiting to get different mainline rubric starring the Dark Knight successful our hands.

Puck News reported that a crippled acceptable successful the beingness of Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe was successful improvement arsenic portion of Warner Bros. Discovery’s purpose to found a stronger games presence. Much similar the upcoming Penguin show, this expected task was “seeded” wrong the events of the 2022 film, though nary further details (like a developer oregon platforms) were provided. But earlier folks could get too excited, James Gunn stepped successful connected Threads to accidental determination was “no existent to this whatsoever.” Darn.

Still, mounting speech Gunn’s rumor–quashing word, a crippled centered connected this circumstantial Batman would beryllium interesting, and a noted departure from the character’s MO successful the mean successful rather a while. Believe it oregon not, Batman’s past genuine tie-in crippled was for Batman: The Brave and the Bold all the mode backmost successful 2010. Beyond that, his assorted crippled franchises successful the past 15 years, similar the Arkham, Lego, and Telltale series, were each archetypal stories that pulled from antithetic parts of the character’s decades of disposable root material. And portion of Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC crippled plan is for an interconnected multimedia beingness that besides includes games, and movie and TV actors reprising their roles successful that medium.

Games person been an country wherever DC has done mostly good successful the past fewer years, and with the close team, a crippled based connected this circumstantial Batman could beryllium cool. But specified a rubric was in the works, we’d person to cognize immediately if Robert Pattinson was getting successful the booth to play his weird, angsty-ass iteration of Bruce Wayne.

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