Paul Dini Is Not Scripting The Rocksteady Follow Up To ‘Arkham City’

In news that will surely bum out fans of Rocksteady’s ‘Arkham Asylum’ and ‘Arkham City’ games, longtime Batman writer Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series), is not returning to script Rocksteady Studios’ follow up. On Dini’s twitter, he expresses ‘Kinda hoped I’d be doing another Arkham game in London during the Olympics. Esp, as I had a good source for tx. Ah, well’. Although I wasn’t able to find the tweet myself, The Sixth Axis has the story for you.

I did see this follow up tweet that further implies that Dini would love to return.

@wittreese1987 “From a writer’s standpoint, you ever want write a game story to follow Arkham City?” Sure. I loved writing the first two.

— Paul_Dini (@Paul_Dini) July 31, 2012

Meanwhile, Rocksteady is rumored to be developing a Justice League game set in the 1950’s Silver Age of comics.

Thoughts? Personally, I thought the story and dialogue for the first two Arkham games were fantastic and really raised the bar for comic book video game writing. Can Rocksteady make a solid game without Dini’s involvement?