The next Batman: Arkham game is a Meta Quest exclusive

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Today, Meta has announced that the adjacent introduction successful the iconic Batman: Arkham bid volition beryllium Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR crippled that’s exclusive to the Meta Quest 3.

Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are processing the game, which is acceptable to merchandise aboriginal this year. Meta didn’t stock overmuch astir the crippled itself, giving america a abbreviated trailer featuring Batman’s POV arsenic helium swoops implicit the grimy, rain-slicked streets of Gotham.

Though airy connected the existent gameplay features, the trailer suggests a large portion of the crippled volition apt see a batch of those “glide done Gotham” traversal sections that made Batman: Arkham City truthful damned cool. Meta besides hasn’t yet shared who volition beryllium voicing Batman. Kevin Conroy, the dependable histrion champion known for his iconic show arsenic the caped crusader, passed distant successful 2022, but not earlier voicing Batman successful Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.

Arkham Shadow is the 2nd clip the Batman: Arkham bid has gotten the VR treatment. In 2016, Rocksteady Studios released Batman: Arkham VR connected the PSVR earlier porting the crippled to further VR headsets. The crippled was demoed astatine E3 2016, wherever The Verge reporter Adi Robertson wrote, “The things I emotion astir the bid aren’t there.” Subsequently, the afloat crippled — which seemingly lone took an hr oregon 2 to implicit — released to middling reviews.

Batman: Arkham Shadow is acceptable to merchandise exclusively connected the Meta Quest 3 aboriginal this year, and Meta wrote we tin expect much details astir the crippled to beryllium revealed during the big Summer Game Fest showcase connected June 7th.