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Batman: Arkham Knight makes Gotham feel more like a city and less like a playground

Batman: Arkham Knight, the final game in the Arkham series, has been a long time coming. The massive title is arriving in stores on June 23, after four years of development. And its arrival could assure Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s dominance of the U.S. market for console games.

Warner Bros. has become the biggest U.S. game publisher for the first time this year thanks to its launches of Dying Light and Mortal Kombat X. The question is whether player still want to “be the Batman,” as Warner’s marketing campaign urges us to be.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.