We all thought we’d seen the end of Rocksteady’s Batman games, but it looks like we could be reaching for the keys to the Batmobile at least one more time.
Rocksteady Games started the Batman game franchise back in 2009 with Batman: Arkham Asylum, moving to Arkham City in 2011, and Arkham Knight in 2015. Since then we haven’t heard much aside from a few small rumours about a fourth game. Rocksteady moved their focus away to work on the Suicide Squad game instead.
But now new rumours are suggesting that fourth game is actually coming.
So if “Batman Arkham Insurgency” was the code name for Gotham Knights during development, then this is what the game started from
— Myster Man (@MrMansMansMan) September 13, 2021
I wonder what else might make it into the game from early dev pic.twitter.com/3o5QJroxSL
Thanks to the NVIDIA GeForce Now leak which revealed a tonne of new games including Arkham Insurgency which was listed alongside a remaster of Arkham Asylum.
The old rumours suggested a new game would continue from where Arkham Knight left off, following Bruce Waynes apparent ‘death’.
Hearing from multiple sources that Rocksteady pitched a Superman game to WB as a follow up to Arkham Knight, and WB passed on the project.
— James Sigfield (@Jsig212James) April 15, 2020
Judging how similar this feels to the “New Gotham” section of Arkham Knight, this could be for that. pic.twitter.com/RKIE6ugKSP
Rocksteady were also reportedly working on an open-world Superman game, similar to the Arkham series. These rumours seemed to fizzle out quite quickly and nothing ever came of them. It would be a lot of work with a Arkham Asylum remaster, the leaked Arkham Knight sequel, and their Suicide Squad game.
While NVIDIA have tried to backtrack on the leaks saying people should take the list of games with a ‘pinch of salt’, it’s obvious that they’re trying to cover their own backs, they probably have an inbox filled with angry emails from p**sed off publishers.
