Beforehand unseen idea artwork purportedly displaying character designs from Warner Bros. Video games Montreal’s cancelled Batman: Arkham Knight follow-up Venture Sabbath has surfaced on-line, displaying additional glimpses of a beardy Bruce Wayne, Damian Wayne, and extra.
Whispers of Venture Sabbath’s existence first emerged again in 2016, with Batman: Arkham Oranges developer Warner Bros. Video games Montreal mentioned to be on the helm. Alongside the best way, nonetheless, Venture Sabbath was ditched in favour of what would in the end turn out to be the relatively middling Gotham Knights, and far of what we all know in regards to the cancelled sport has been gleaned by way of numerous bits of idea artwork that’ve emerged over time.
In 2019, as an illustration, idea artwork from Venture Sabbath – which might supposedly see Bruce Wayne’s son Damian donning the well-known cowl and cape – popped up on 4chan, displaying off numerous components together with an older Bruce Wayne, a rundown Gotham Metropolis, Gorilla Grodd, and extra. All that was accompanied by claims the sport would have used Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s acclaimed Nemesis System. Extra idea artwork then emerged two years later, providing nearer appears to be like at each Bruce and Damien.
And now, but extra Venture Sabbath idea artwork has emerged, this time from character artist Rodrigue Pralier, who labored at Warner Bros. Video games Montreal circa 2014/2015. Though the Artstation web page initially that includes the ideas has now been eliminated, the pictures have been saved for posterity on social media, revealing an additional have a look at Damian Wayne and his beardy pa Bruce, alongside Killer Croc, The Huntress, and extra.
New idea artwork from WB Video games Montréal’s cancelled 2015 Damian Wayne sport “Venture Sabbath” has surfaced, shared by character artist Rodrigue Pralier. The items clearly present Damian, an older Bruce, Killer Croc, and Huntress.
Examine them out right here: artstation.com/art work/2Bn8yA[image or embed]
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Gotham Knights – the title WB Video games Montreal switched its consideration to after ditching Venture Sabbath – did, in fact, fail to generate a lot enthusiasm amongst critics and followers, and it was adopted in 2024 by Arkham Knight studio Rocksteady’s Suicide: Kill the Justice League. That proved to be one other Batman-adjacent flop in a 12 months that additionally noticed Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions underperform and the limp return of Warner’s now-cancelled MultiVersus.
At the beginning of this 12 months – following a number of rounds of layoffs throughout its studios – Warner Bros. Video games boss David Haddad departed the corporate. Only a month later Warner Bros. introduced it was cancelling Monolith Productions’ long-in-the-works Surprise Girl sport, closing the studio, and shutting down Participant First Video games and Warner Bros. Video games San Diego too. Since then, it is introduced a drastic shift in management that’ll see it refocusing on a number of core manufacturers, together with Mortal Kombat, Harry Potter, DC, and Recreation of Thrones.
