Everything We Know About the Next Batman: Arkham Asylum Game

If we’re being honest, Batman fans went a long time before they could enjoy a really good game featuring the Caped Crusader. Batman: Arkham Asylum changed that in 2009 and blew everyone away.

That game was followed by popular direct sequel Arkham City in 2011 and the prequel game Arkham Origins in 2013, which had a more mixed reception. But another well-received sequel, Arkham Knight, was released in 2015.

It’s been several years since Arkham Knight came out. What do we know about the sequel? We put on our best detective cowl and found out the most important details about the next Arkham Asylum game.

Coy Confirmation

The first thing we needed to confirm was whether there would definitely be a sequel. While we knew that WB Montreal was working on some DC Comics games, they played coy for a long time about whether one of them would be an Arkham game.

That coyness eventually gave way to a coy confirmation. On the most recent Batman Day, the company tweeted out a video celebrating their involvement with Batman. The video had some mysterious images that the company reposted the next day.

These symbols included one that looked like the Demon’s Head of the League of Assassins. This is our confirmation of a sequel, seemingly further confirmed on Twitter by Batman writer Scott Snyder.

Exciting New Villain

Scott Synder (no relation to director Zack Snyder) has been cranking out some of the best Batman stories ever told in recent years. He even added to the Batman mythology by creating a mysterious new force in Gotham City: The Court of Owls.

In a now-deleted tweet, Snyder quoted WB Montreal’s original tweet with a message saying “Wait for it #bewarethecourtofowls.”

Ohhhhh man, he deleted it….BUT I GOT DEM SCREEN SHOTS pic.twitter.com/QUM8HiF7CP
— Colin Huguenel (@chuge11) September 22, 2019

It seems that Snyder knows this is not only a confirmation of a Batman game, but that the game will include his new villains as well. This served as a final confirmation that the company was not simply reminiscing about the past (after all, the League of Assassins appeared back in the original Arkham City).