Batman: a video game in development at Rocksteady, but not just yet

Rocksteady may well return to the world of the Dark Knight with a new Batman game. While Warner Bros. Games is going through a difficult financial period, as our Bloomberg colleagues report, the publisher seems keen to return to a single-player formula after the failure of several games-as-a-service. We take stock!

Batman soon back on consoles? That's what Jason Shreier, a specialist journalist at Bloomberg, seems to be suggesting in an article detailing Warner Bros. Games ' financial difficulties and current projects... And among these, one from Rocksteady based around theBatman. According to the latest information relayed by Bloomberg, Warner Bros. Games is looking to relaunch the franchise. While development is still in its early stages, the project could represent a strategic turning point for the publisher.

Warner Bros. Games is going through a particularly complex period, accumulating $300 million in losses due to the commercial failure of several games-services, including Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions and MultiVersus. This situation led to the departure of David Haddad, former head of the gaming division. Faced with a limited 2025 release schedule, apart from the mods deployed on the PC version of Hogwarts Legacy and a new LEGO game, the publisher is looking to capitalize on a strong license to turn things around.

Ten years after the excellent Batman Arkham Knight, Rocksteady seems ready to return to a more traditional single-player format, abandoning the game-as-a-service model which has not met with the expected success. However, as the project is at a preliminary stage, no release date has yet been announced. What we do know, however, is that we'll have to wait a long time to see it come to fruition.

The future of Warner Bros. Games therefore rests in part on the success of these new projects, notably the sequel to Hogwarts Legacy, also in development, which could help to mitigate the losses. In the meantime, fans of the Batman universe will have to be patient before learning more about this new iteration of the Dark Knight.

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Batman: a video game in development at Rocksteady, but not just yet

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