Veteran Batman comic writer Paul Dini, the writer for both Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, revealed on his Twitter account that he will not be returning to write the third game in the series. He later wrote a blog post to clarify the Tweet and better explain the situation.
"The last talk I had with Warner Interactive about future games was while I was doing promotion for Arkham City last September,"Dini wrote in his blog. "Everyone was asking me about a third game, and frankly, I had been wondering about that myself. When I later read their subsequent announcements about the Harley Quinn's Revenge game expansion and the rumored Arkham prequel orJLA game, I figured they had filled their writer needs."
In February, it was announced that Arkham City had shipped over 6 million units of the game since release. Aggregating review site Metacritic.com currently has the PlayStation 3 version rated a 96, the Xbox 360 version rated a 94 and the PC version rated a 91.
Dini also explained that he has already begun work on other projects and will not be able to start on a new project until 2013, at the earliest.
"It was fun working with Warners and Rocksteady on the first two Arkham games and I am grateful to them both for a tremendous experience," Dini added. "Rocksteady has a great crew of artists and storytellers, and it was exciting and enlightening for me to be part of that team. If we wind up working together again at some point that would be cool, too."
