According to store pages such as Steam and the Gotham Knights team’s Twitter account, Gotham Knights will launch on October 21. While that would give players a good 24-hour window of anticipation, the game’s Twitter page provides a much tighter ETA. The account states Gotham Knights will feature a staggered release window and launch in each region at the stroke of their respective midnight. The only exception is West Coast gamers; they get to start playing (or at least downloading) Gotham Knights at 9 pm on October 20. Some gamers get all the luck. The wait for Gotham Knights has been long, arduous, and full of delays (and, for some gamers, cancelations). The developer, WB Games Montréal, originally planned to release the game in 2021, but it later announced via Twitter that Arkham Knights would require more time and be pushed back to 2022. Moreover, WB Games Montréal wanted to cast as wide a net as possible for gamers and let anyone with the previous console generation (i.e., the Xbox One and PlayStation 4) play the game. However, earlier this year, the studio abandoned that plan in order to “provide players with the best possible gameplay experience” (via IGN) Gotham Knights’ shifting release schedule wasn’t all delays, though. Eventually, WB Games Montréal settled on an October 25 release date, but during The Game Awards’ Gamescom Opening Night, the studio premiered a villain-oriented trailer with a new release date: October 21. No reason was given, but since far too many game development updates these days consist of delay announcements, we’re not complaining.
