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Rocksteady Studios is happy to pass the torch to Warner Bros. Montreal for Batman: Arkham Origins, which was revealed overnight.

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Batman: Arkham City has been out for seven months, but Rocksteady has confirmed some of its secrets are yet to be uncovered. What the heck is wrong with you lot?

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Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City developer Rocksteady is enthusiastic about its next project.

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Rocksteady initially looked at introducing multiplayer early in development of Batman: Arkham City, studio game director Sefton Hill has said.

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Game director and Rocksteady’s co-founder, Sefton Hill, would like it if the UK government would finally step-up and support the UK games industry, as many of his friends have moved abroad to countries such as Canada which support the industry.

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Rocksteady game director Sefton Hill has said the studio hasn’t been put off from doing future open-world titles after the launch of Batman: Arkham City last week.

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Rocksteady wasn’t going to let technical limitations get in the way of its vision for Batman: Arkham City.

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The Dark Knight’s returning to the world of gaming, and he’s bringing friends. Sort of. We played Arkham City and quizzed Rocksteady over everything you could ever want to know.

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Rocksteady has said that it’ll feature 40 hours worth of main and non-main story content combined.

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Rocksteady boss Sefton Hill has said that the locale footprint of Arkham City in Batman: Akrham City is “five times bigger” than Arkham Asylum’s Arkham Island.

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Rocksteady’s confirmed in the latest issue of gamesTM that there will be no playable vehicles in Batman: Arkham City.

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UK OPM‘s Batman issue has dropped a metric fuck-load of new Arkham City info in its cover feature, which is full of both the game’s recently leaked screens and never-before-seen character art.

Warning: spoilers.

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Rocksteady boss Sefton Hill has told Develop as far as it’s concerned, Batman: Arkham Asylum was just the beginning of things for the developer.

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Fresh off its BAFTA Game of the Year win for Batman: Arkham Asylum, Rocksteady’s studio director Sefton Hill chatted a bit with VideoGamer about sequels.

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Rocksteady dev boss Sefton Hill’s told Gama that there are “too many games out there that deliver lots of average content,” adding that “doing less” in terms of features ensured Batman’s high quality.

“Some of the things that we really wanted to achieve were for Batman himself, so we didn’t want to overstretch with a driving section with its own mechanic and requirements, and take that development time away from the things that were important for Batman himself,” he said.

You can’t argue with numbers: Arkham Asylum’s done more than 2 million now. Shame Hill didn’t name names. You should man up, Sefton. Call out the averagers. Take them to school.

There’s an interview here.

Slashgamer has published the full Game Informer Batman: Arkham Asylum reveal, officially announced by Eidos yesterday. And it looks very good indeed.

All the major villains are present and the art-style looks in tune with the comics: gritty and menacing.

Of the stealth elements mooted in the official release, game director Sefton Hill says:

“If you look at a stealth game, it’s about being weak and hiding…this is about being in a strong positions and them not knowing where you are. It’s a very different fell. Predator gameplay we call it. Picking of the weak people.”

Check out this mouth-wateringly dark and macabre looking game through the link.

By Mike Bowden