The Caped Crusader is heading to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Publisher Warner Bros. has a new Batman game in the works called Arkham Knight, according to a U.K. retailer (via video game message board NeoGAF). It’s from developer Rocksteady, the same team that produced Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. This time, Gotham’s greatest detective is heading to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (but not Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Wii U). It will feature villains like Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face, and Harley Quinn, and Batman will get to drive around in his Batmobile. Warner Bros. is billing this as the conclusion to the Arkham series. Magazine Game Informer confirmed the title and will feature it as its next cover story.

Arkham Knight will maintain the exploration and combat elements of previous entries in the series.

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“Batman: Arkham Knight is the pinnacle game of our hugely successful franchise, and we are giving players the most expansive, impressive title in the series,” Warner Bros. Interactive president Martin Tremblay said in a statement.  “The Rocksteady Studios team is continuing to focus on the excellent gameplay for which they are known while delivering a thrilling new experience for gamers and Batman fans.”

Rocksteady developed and released Batman: Arkham Asylum in 2009. It has the Dark Knight exploring the infamous prison for the criminally insane while fighting off enemies using deep combat mechanics. The sequel, 2011’s Arkham City, expanded on the concept by opening up the playable area to a whole neighborhood within Gotham.

“The team at Rocksteady Studios is putting a tremendous amount of work into delivering the final chapter of our Batman: Arkham trilogy so that fans can feel what it’s like to be the Batman,” Rocksteady director Sefton Hill said.  “We’re excited to be developing the game for next-gen platforms, which has allowed us to bring to life the design elements that we envisioned from the beginning such as the Batmobile and how it augments Batman’s abilities, to the fully detailed and realized Gotham City.”

In 2013, developer Warner Bros. Games Montreal had a go with a prequel titled Arkham Origins. It had most of the features of Arkham City, and it also introduced a multiplayer mode.

Handing off development of Origins to the Montreal studio gave Rocksteady an extra year to produce a new Batman game built for the powerful new consoles.

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