In an investor call, a member of Time Warner management has confirmed that a new game in the Batman: Arkham series will be released this year.

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John K Martin is the company's CFO, and you can read the transcript of his comments on Yahoo! Finance . "And we also have a strong games release this year, which will include the next release in the Batman Arkham A third entry in the Arkham series has seemed inevitable for a while, but we've had no firm details on what it is or even who is developing it. Rocksteady had hinted that its next game will not be Batman-based , and Variety claimed that Warner's next Batman game will be a Silver Age prequel featuring members of the Justice League of America - but it also claimed that the game would not be out before 2014.We'll have more news as we get it.

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