Riddle me this, riddle me that: does a new Batman game actually exist? Well, one would think, but at this point you almost have to wonder. Rockstady and WB Montreal have been dead silent since Arkham Knight released in 2015 and Arkham Origins in 2013. There’s been tons of rumors and what many see as teases since, but nothing concrete has ever come of it. Well, strap in for another rumor I guess, because some are out there saying we’ll see it very soon.

The next game in the series is rumored to be called Arkham Legacy, feature multiple playable characters and be developed by WB Montreal. YouTuber Slcmof alleges that the game will be finally unveiled at this year’s TGA with a trailer. While usually a random YouTube video isn’t even worth making an article about, Slcmof was apparently one of the first people to leak the Damian Wayne Batman game that ultimately ended up canceled, which we know was in development due to leaked concept art work.

Of course, as I mentioned before, it feels like this new Arkham game has been rumored to be revealed in some form at about a dozen different events so take it all with a grain of salt. At this point, I’ll have to believe it when I actually see.

Rocksteady has a good thing going with the Batman Arkham series, with 2009’s hit title, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the shortly upcoming, Batman: Arkham City, which is already getting strong praise from reviewers.

Of course, we’ve been wondering how long this franchise will continue, and if we will have a third Arkham game, and more after that. Rocksteady has vaguely said that the series will continue as long as there are stories to tell in it.

“I think as long as we’re still enjoying it and as long as we feel we can contribute to the Batman universe,” Rocksteady’s Dax Ginn told CVG. “That’s how it feels. There’s some amazing stuff going on with Batman all around the world at the moment and we feel as though we’re making our own little contribution in the form of the Arkham-verse.

“So as long as we’ve got stories to tell,” he concluded. “So long as we feel we can do that and do that really well.”

“There’s no other character that’s as awesome as Batman who’s got such an incredible rogues gallery, who’s got such and amazing structure for gameplay,” Ginn explained. “All it takes is to give a guy an assault rifle and it changes the entire nature of combat.

“So you can put Batman up against 30 thugs in the street and just cane them and feel like a total don but as soon as one of them’s got a shotgun you have to rethink what you do. That’s really rare for a superhero and we really love using the facets of his personality to create gameplay out of that.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future but right now I feel like we’re in a real sweet spot with the games that we’re making, the opportunities that we have so I don’t really want that to change.”

Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated.

Rocksteady boss Sefton Hill, in an interview with Official PlayStation Magezine, also revealed that Batman will this time have twice the moves under his belt as he did in the Arkham Asylum. “Without a doubt, the hardest part of moving the game setting from the confines of the asylum into the urban sprawl of Arkham City was simply building the environment,” he said.

“Our objective in this game is not to make the biggest game we can, but to make the best game possible. Gamers who played Batman: Arkham Asylum will know how dedicated we are as a studio to injecting an incredible amount of detail into every environment we build,” he continued.

“It is this attention to detail that gives our games the deep and intense atmosphere that so many players have found so compelling, and so we have had to seriously scale up our art team in order to bring the same level of detail to Arkham City, which is about 4-5 times bigger than Arkham Asylum.”

“In terms of gameplay, we knew very early on that just scaling up Batman’s abilities and gadgets wasn’t going to work as he is fundamentally facing a new game world and totally different range of enemies in this game, so we took his move set from Batman: Arkham Asylum and built from there,” added Hill.

“Looking at the raw amount of animations in this sequel, Batman’s moves have doubled in number and we also wanted to create an authentic sense of continuity from the end of Batman: Arkham Asylum, so the player will begin Batman: Arkham City with many of the same core gadgets that they unlocked in the first game.

“Batman’s cutting-edge technology is a significant part of the game, so gamers can expect to see a range of totally new gadgets, as well as evolved new features built into those tools that they already enjoyed in Batman: Arkham Asylum.”

We will have more info on this wonderful game later.