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Warner Bros. published Batman: Arkham City on Switch today, and we have a closer look with new gameplay. Footage is in for Asylum, City, and Knight.

Here’s an overview of the release, courtesy of the eShop description:

Batman Arkham Trilogy graphics comparison

A new video from GameXplain offers up a new graphics comparison for the Switch release Batman: Arkham Trilogy. Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight are all factored in here depending on the game.

Arkham Asylum and Arkham City were always going to be easier to port over as they originally launched on the PS3 and Xbox 360 (City was also on Wii U). However, Arkham Knight is a tougher one to convert given how it first appeared on the PS4 and Xbox One. We should get more details on the technical performance once more outlets are able to go hands-on.

Batman Arkham Trilogy The Batman Batsuit

We have a new gameplay trailer for Batman: Arkham Trilogy that provides a look at the titles on Switch as well as news about “The Batman” Batsuit.

Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight are showcased. As for “The Batman” Batsuit, while not a huge feature, it’ll be included for free and is being released on Switch before any other platform.

Batman: Arkham Trilogy delayed

Batman: Arkham Trilogy is seeing a bit of a last-minute delay on Switch. Just announced a few minutes ago, the collection will now launch on December 1, 2023.

Batman: Arkham Trilogy was first announced for Switch in June and was planned for the fall. Then in August, it was given an October 13 release date.

Batman: Arkham Trilogy release date

A release date for Batman: Arkham Trilogy has just been announced. The package is due out for Switch on October 13, 2023.

Batman: Arkham Trilogy was announced in the last Nintendo Direct. Previously, it was given a vague fall release window.

Batman: Arkham Trilogy marks another Switch release that won’t include everything on the physical cartridge when it launches later this year.

As previously reported, the collection includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, and Batman: Arkham Knight (plus all DLC). However, according to the official FAQ, only the first title is included. Players going physical will need to download Arkham City and Arkham Knight in order to play them.

Batman Arkham Trilogy

Batman Arkham Trilogy was previously rumored on Switch following a listing that was posted by a French distributor. During today’s Nintendo Direct, Warner Bros. made the news official.

Batman Arkham Collection will include three games (Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight) plus all previously-released DLC. The package is set for release this fall.

Batman: Arkham Origins was the first title in the series not made by Rocksteady. How does Arkham’s creator feel about the game?

NowGamer first asked Rocksteady producer Dax Ginn if it was surreal seeing another studio develop a new entry in a series. He stated:

“It was certainly pretty interesting, just to see what another team of creatives would do with Batman.”

And about Origins as a game in general, Ginn commented:

“I think they did a really solid job with Arkham Origins. I personally really, really enjoyed it – I think mostly because I’m really good at the combat, having played Arkham games for so long, I got a lot of joy out of it.”

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Warner Bros. brought two Batman: Arkham games to Wii U, but the series’ latest entry – Arkham Knight – will not be available on Nintendo’s platform. Fans may be curious as to why that is.

Rocksteady’s Dax Ginn did provide an answer of sorts while speaking with NowGamer. He told the site, “We have to make our technology choices specifically with reference to the gameplay objectives that we want, so we choose the platforms that are going to give us that.”

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Last year, there had been speculation stemming from a Variety report about a Rocksteady-made, Silver Age-based Batman game. There are now questions as to whether the article was referring to Arhkam Origins or something else entirely, but it does indeed seem that that studio is cooking up a new Batman project in any case.

Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, previously said he was working on a Batman game – and it wasn’t Origins.

As far as when the title will launch, it may release as early as next year. Kotaku has picked up on job postings for an unnamed British developer matching text of Rocksteady career openings, which says the company’s new project “has been tipped to be one of the most successful games of 2014.”

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