Batman Arkham 2020: Every Leak & Rumour You Need To Know
Who will capture the Knight?
After years of speculation and rumours, WB Games Montreal have this week reignited the feeling that a new game in the Batman: Arkham series is about to be announced.
WB Montreal, who made the prequel game Arkham: Origins (but not Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Knight, which were all Rocksteady Games products) first kicked off the rumour mill back in September when they tweeted a sequence of cryptic images alongside the words "Capture the Knight."
But then there was nothing else forthcoming. Nothing that is until this week when they tweeted once again with the same slogan and a new image. All of that has been added together on WB Montreal's official site to give us this obviously partially completed web of logos, a marketing campaign which feels entirely fitting for a gaming franchise scattered with The Riddler's endless irritating little puzzles.
You don't have to be the World's Greatest Detective, though, to figure out that one thing all this is pointing to is the upcoming reveal of the who, what and when of the new game. So, before that announcement is made, let's go back over all the rumours and leaks that we've already seen for Arkham 5.
10. It's Called Arkham Legacy
Back in October, a leak from Twitter user @New_WabiSabi, who had accurately leaked a number of details revealed at last year's E3, tweeted that a new Batman game was on the horizon and that would be named Arkham Legacy.
An official announcement was rumoured at December's Game Awards, but that came and went with no Bat-news. Nevertheless, critics and observers have widely assumed that Legacy is likely the correct name and have tended to use it in reports.
What might this tell us about the game?
Well, for one thing it does prompt the idea that, in opposition to WB Montreal's previous prequel entry, this will take place after Arkham Knight and after Bruce's unmasking. "Legacy" could refer to either Bruce's legacy as Batman or the legacy of the events at Arkham in the earlier games.
Or it could be neither. There could be an element that goes back much further into Gotham's past and we could be dealing with a lingering legacy of Amadeus Arkham.