If you were looking forward to driving the Batmobile through a wrecked Gotham City this Christmas season, then we’re terribly sorry. Batman: Arkham Knight has been delayed into 2015, so it looks like you’ll have to spend the holidays with your family and friends or something.
According to Kotaku, Arkham Knight is slipping from its late 2014 release date into some unspecified time in 2015. Dax Ginn, Brand Marketing Producer at Rocksteady Studios and member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, said in reference to the delay:
Now Batman: Arkham Knight is totally awesome, the thing about awesome, though, is awesome takes time. And totally awesome takes a lot of time. So in collaboration with our colleagues at Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics, we have decided to extend the development time of Batman: Arkham Knight. Now, the very simple reason for doing this is to ensure we are delivering the awesome level of quality that Batman fans and gamers expect from this, the final episode and the epic conclusion to the Rocksteady Arkham trilogy. The Dark Knight will face his ultimate challenge in Batman: Arkham Knight now to be released in 2015.
Awesome.
While Dax Ginn, his skateboard, and Rocksteady are developing the next awesome installment of the awesome Batman: Arkham Knight, Kotaku pointed out that Lego Batman 3 will still come out this fall, so it looks like you actually have a better reason to shut yourself away from your family. Seriously, those Lego games are immersive as what.
In the meantime, feel free to join Multiversity Comics as we continue to be completely right with our theory that the real villain of Arkham Knight will be Simon Hurt from Grant Morrison’s gigantic “Batman” run. Honestly, we think it’s a pretty awesome theory.
Batman: Arkham Knight comes out in 2015(?) for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Dax Ginn will be portrayed by Dave Bautista in Guardians of the Galaxy which releases on August 1.
