Gotham Knights trailer introduces the villainous Court of Owls

The most recent trailer for Gotham Knights premiered at this weekend's DC FanDome occasion. It's purely a narrative trailer, targeted on the mysterious Courtroom of Owls who appear set to be its major villains. The Penguin drops some hints about this spooky conspiracy after which in a montage the 4 members of the Bat-family we'll be enjoying in Gotham Knights—Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and the Crimson Hood—fall into their clutches one after the other.

Launched in a well-liked 2011 comedian e book storyline, the Courtroom of Owls are the key rulers of Gotham Metropolis, rich elites in Venetian masks styled to resemble owls. Because the trailer reveals, they're not simply an Eyes Large Shut membership for gazillionaires, but additionally have well-armed assassins (known as Talons within the comics) at their disposal.

Gotham Knights is being developed by WB Video games Montreal—chargeable for Arkham Origins and bits of Arkham Knight—and although the plot sort of resembles the place you'd count on the Arkham collection to go after Arkham Knight, it's not truly set in the identical model of the DC universe. It is a utterly totally different continuity. Gotham Knights is due out in 2022, and lately obtained a Steam page.