Warner Bros. Games Montreal would have followed up 2013’s Batman: Arkham Origins with another game in the series…

 

Back in August 2019, we talked about how the Canadian studio Warner was making another Batman game. The DC Universe adventure would have starred Damian Wayne instead of Bruce and was most likely to be a sequel to Batman: Arkham Knight. The project was codenamed Project Sabbath (the images leaked at the time are shown separately below and were taken from Twitter).

A year later, artist Jerad Marantz shared more images of the unrealised game on his Instagram, which was probably years in the making, as it had been a few years since Batman: Arkham Origins, so things must have been pretty turbulent at the studio. (We call it the fifth game because we don’t consider Arkham VR as a full-fledged instalment.)

However, new concept art has surfaced courtesy of The Arkham Channel (although this Twitter account has also lifted the images from Reddit). It confirms that Project Sabbath would have put Damian Wayne in the lead role. The first three images show the work of Goran Bukvic, but the Batcycle design is by another concept artist, Elijah McNeal. If we’ve gotten past the bearded Batman, we’ll quote Bukvic: “These concepts were done for a cancelled game a long time ago. [I] had a lot of fun with these.”

WB Games Montreal, by the way, is not idle, as they are still involved with the DC universe, only this time they are developing a completely different game: while Rocksteady, the studio primarily responsible for the Batman: Arkham games, is developing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the studio based in the Canadian province of Quebec is developing Gotham Knights. We recently reported that it might launch in Spring 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC (with Denuvo, unless Intel can get the Irdeto copy protection system onto the Alder Lake processor family…), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Source: PSL
The 2019 images

 

The new images