Home » Latest » Titles » NEW BATMAN ARKHAM TEASED? EA BREAKS MAJOR WORLD RECORD, & MORE

NEW BATMAN ARKHAM TEASED? EA BREAKS MAJOR WORLD RECORD, & MORE

3

InfoSearched 67 0 Titles

5.8

SaveSavedRemoved 0

Gotham’s getting a new tease, and EA just earned the internet’s least flattering trophy.

Gameranx’s mid-September roundup zeroes in on the two stories every gaming timeline was arguing about that week: a cryptic Rocksteady tweet that sent Batman Arkham speculation into overdrive, and Electronic Arts officially entering the record books for one of the most despised comments in Reddit history. Toss in a Hideo Kojima update out of Tokyo Game Show, and it’s a snapshot of an industry where a single social post can dominate headlines for days.

• Rocksteady Studios posted a cryptic tweet — “Cape surges – Gotham teeters. Any guesses what we might be up to?” — alongside an image of Superman with energy emanating from his chest, fueling speculation about a new Batman Arkham project tied to WB Games Montréal and Court of Owls hints.
• Electronic Arts’ Community Team defense of Star Wars Battlefront II’s loot boxes and hero-unlock grind — “The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment” — was officially certified by Guinness World Records as the most downvoted comment in Reddit history, with over 667,000 downvotes, and included in the Guinness World Records 2020 Gamer’s Edition.
• Hideo Kojima showcased extended Death Stranding gameplay demos at Tokyo Game Show 2019 and discussed the game’s “Social Strand System” ahead of its November 2019 launch.

Rocksteady’s Cryptic Tweet Sets Off the Bat-Signal

The tease came without warning: Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the Arkham trilogy, posted an image of Superman with energy visibly radiating from his chest, paired with the line “Cape surges – Gotham teeters. Any guesses what we might be up to?” It’s the kind of cryptic drop that’s practically designed to get dissected frame-by-frame on Twitter and Reddit, and fans did exactly that within hours.

What made the tease land harder is the context around it. Mid-September 2019 was already thick with insider chatter and social-media hints pointing toward WB Games Montréal — the studio behind Batman: Arkham Origins — working on something new, with Court of Owls references circulating as a possible narrative thread. Layer Rocksteady’s Superman tease on top of that, and you get a fanbase convinced a new Arkham-adjacent project, possibly stretching beyond Batman into the wider DC roster, is closer than anyone expected.

Anyone who wants a visual sense of where the Arkham-style formula could head next has options to compare against — the Batman Gotham Knights gameplay that eventually emerged shows how far WB’s Batman properties would evolve from the Arkham blueprint fans were speculating about in 2019.

EA’s Reddit Record Nobody Wanted

While Rocksteady was teasing, EA was getting immortalized for a different reason entirely. Guinness World Records officially confirmed that EA Community Team’s 2017 defense of Star Wars Battlefront II’s loot box and hero-unlock system — the infamous line about providing players “a sense of pride and accomplishment” — is the most downvoted comment in Reddit’s history, racking up more than 667,000 downvotes. The distinction now sits permanently in the Guinness World Records 2020 Gamer’s Edition.

“The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment.” — EA Community Team, now Guinness World Record holder for the most downvoted comment in Reddit history.

It’s a strange kind of milestone — a company getting a Guinness plaque for the exact moment its community relations blew up in its face. But it also underlines just how long that Battlefront II backlash has followed EA around; two years after the original comment, it was still generating headlines, just in a completely different form. Anyone tracking how publishers navigate loot box and progression controversies in the years since can see the throughline in stories filed under Reddit discourse that keeps circling back to that same 667,000-downvote number.

Kojima’s Tokyo Game Show Spotlight

Rounding out the roundup, Hideo Kojima used Tokyo Game Show 2019 to give Death Stranding its biggest platform yet before launch. He ran extended gameplay demos for the crowd and walked through the “Social Strand System” — the mechanic built around players indirectly helping each other across separate playthroughs — as the November 2019 release date closed in. It was less a reveal and more a victory lap, giving skeptics a clearer look at how the game’s asynchronous online structure actually functions in practice.

Rocksteady never confirmed what its Superman-tinged tease was actually building toward, and that ambiguity is exactly what kept it trending for days. Whatever WB Games Montréal and Rocksteady have been quietly working on, the Court of Owls chatter and that “Gotham teeters” line are the loudest hints fans had going into the fall of 2019.