{"id":14818,"date":"2011-10-18T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rocksteady-s-future-plans-depend-on-batman-arkham-city-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14818-rocksteady-s-future-plans-depend-on-batman-arkham-city-success","title":{"rendered":"Rocksteady&#039;s future plans depend on Batman: Arkham City success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Batman: Arkham City launch now just days away (girly squeal), everybody&rsquo;s inevitably moved on already, and is now asking if there&rsquo;s going to be another sequel.<\/p>\n<p>The gaming industry is all about the future, probably because all these bright colours and flashing lights keep our attention spans at the absolute minimu-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Batman_Arkham_City_Screenshot__2__463590272.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What was I saying?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, Batman: Arkham What-Next.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/322756\/batman-arkham-city-the-future-is-a-big-question-mark-for-us\/?cid=OTC-RSS&amp;attr=CVG-General-RSS\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CVG\">CVG<\/a>, Rocksteady&rsquo;s inhouse guy-with-a-supervillian-name Dax Ginn said it&rsquo;s all a matter of how well this one does. Which makes a crazy kind of sense, but that&rsquo;s just how supervillains manipulate people into adopting their own ways of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are you asking me about the future?! I honestly don&#8217;t know. What happens next depends on how this game is received. We&#8217;re really proud of the work we&#8217;ve done and I think taking Batman on to the streets of Gotham is where people wanted him to go after the Asylum,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Where we go from here is anyone&#8217;s guess. There&#8217;s a philosophy at the studio that as long as we keep making awesome things, awesome opportunities will open up to us. But we can&#8217;t make any firm decisions because the games industry is a crazy thing. We&#8217;re just focused on the here and now and getting to October 31. We&#8217;ll see what people think of this first.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14778-Batman-Arkham-City-review-roundup.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Batman: Arkham City review roundup\">critics seem to think it&rsquo;s rather fine<\/a>, with the game currently holding a 95\/97 (Xbox, PS3 respectively) average on Metacritic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Batman_Arkham_City_Screenshot__14__289162530.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14790-Interview---Batman-Arkham-City-dev-Paul-Crocker.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Interview - Batman: Arkham City dev Paul Crocker\">Interview &#8211; Batman: Arkham City dev Paul Crocker<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14790-Interview---Batman-Arkham-City-dev-Paul-Crocker.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Interview - Batman: Arkham City dev Paul Crocker\"><br \/><\/a><a href=\"features\/14778-Batman-Arkham-City-review-roundup.html\" target=\"_self\"><\/a> <a href=\"features\/14778-Batman-Arkham-City-review-roundup.html\" target=\"_self\">Batman: Arkham City review roundup<\/a><br \/><a href=\"features\/14738-Games-releasing-this-week-October.html\" target=\"_self\">Games releasing this week (17 &ndash; 21 October)<\/a><br \/><a href=\"pc\/14266-Delayed-version-Batman-Arkham-City-will-worth-the-wait.html\" target=\"_self\">Delayed PC version of Batman: Arkham City will be worth the wait<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19098-Batman-Arkham-City-success-will-dictate-Rocksteady-s-future-plans\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Rocksteady's future plans depend on Batman: Arkham City success\"><strong>Rocksteady&#8217;s future plans depend on Batman: Arkham City success<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So expect big things <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}