Sadly, The Batman Is not Including a Sport to Its Epic Crime Saga

It’s been some time since we’ve had a full-fledged Batman game for console. Whereas the Arkham sub-series is constant with Batman: Arkham Shadow, it seems like we’ll proceed ready to get one other mainline title starring the Darkish Knight in our palms.

Puck News reported {that a} sport set within the universe of Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe was in improvement as a part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s goal to determine a stronger video games presence. Very similar to the upcoming Penguin present, this supposed challenge was “seeded” inside the occasions of the 2022 movie, although no additional particulars (like a developer or platforms) had been supplied. However earlier than people may get too excited, James Gunn stepped in on Threads to say there was “no true to this in any respect.” Darn.

Nonetheless, setting apart Gunn’s rumor–quashing phrase, a sport centered on this particular Batman could be attention-grabbing, and a famous departure from the character’s MO within the medium in fairly some time. Imagine it or not, Batman’s final real tie-in sport was for Batman: The Courageous and the Daring all the best way again in 2010. Past that, his numerous sport franchises previously 15 years, just like the Arkham, Lego, and Telltale sequence, had been all unique tales that pulled from totally different components of the character’s a long time of obtainable supply materials. And a part of Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC game plan is for an interconnected multimedia universe that additionally contains video games, and movie and TV actors reprising their roles in that medium.

Video games have been an space the place DC has accomplished typically effectively in the previous couple of years, and with the proper crew, a sport based mostly on this particular Batman may very well be cool. However such a title was within the works, we’d need to know instantly if Robert Pattinson was getting within the sales space to play his bizarre, angsty-ass iteration of Bruce Wayne.

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