Guy Perkins, Marketing Game Manager, Rocksteady Studios.
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Why we had to wait four years for Batman: Arkham Knight

The Batman trilogy will likely go down as one of the best superhero video game series in history. And after four years in the making, the fourth part of the Arkham series debuts June 23 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and the PC.

This Batman is one of the flagship releases coming this year from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the game division of the big entertainment company. And for the first time, Warner Bros. is the biggest game publisher in North America thanks to sales of its Mortal Kombat X and Dying Light games this year.

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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.