New Batman: Arkham Game Coming Later This Year

In an investor call, a member of Time Warner management has confirmed that a new game in the Batman: Arkham series will be released this year.

John K Martin is the company's CFO, and you can read the transcript of his comments on Yahoo! Finance. "And we also have a strong games release this year, which will include the next release in the Batman Arkham franchise," he says. "So all in all, we expect Warners to post another very strong year in 2013. And with a little luck, the year should be as good or maybe even a little bit better than 2012."

A third entry in the Arkham series has seemed inevitable for a while, but we've had no firm details on what it is or even who is developing it. Rocksteady had hinted that its next game will not be Batman-based, and Variety claimed that Warner's next Batman game will be a Silver Age prequel featuring members of the Justice League of America - but it also claimed that the game would not be out before 2014.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/new-batman-arkham-game-coming-this-year

If it's not Rocksteady that's making this new game, I'm actually slightly worried... How about you??

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Both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City were some of the best games of the 7th generation. Definitely looking forward to the newest entry!

Yeah, I'm playing through Asylum right now, and it's great!!

Excellent. Although if it is being outsourced then you can downgrade that to a 'good to great' kind of level.

If it's more like AA than AC, I just might be interested.

They have released first pictures of the prequel

It better be on Wii U or I'll slap a bitch.

Oh, Batman! I hope they implement Mario powerups similar to Tekken. That'll do 'em justice.

Far as I know Paul Dini is busy until sometime this year. He couldn't possibly have written this game... I don't want it. Unless they hired Bruce Timm.