With E3 being cancelled, companies like Microsoft and Ubisoft will look to be taking all of their supposed announcements through digital events. Warner Bros. Games is one of the companies taking a hit due to the cancellation, seeing as they’ve reportedly been preparing to do an E3 conference for the first time with some important announcements.
In a Tweet from industry vet Jason Schreier, he reports that Batman, Harry Potter, and Rocksteady’s games were among the announcements of that press conference.
More news from me: Warner Bros. Games was planning to do an E3 press conference this year for the first time, to talk about Batman, Harry Potter, and Rocksteady's game among others. Remains to be seen what they'll do now https://t.co/OIry5zgB6p
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) March 11, 2020
While there are no specifics as to what those titles could be, there have been previous rumors and leaks that may have shed some light on these projects.
The Batman game could have been the same title WB Games Montreal teased a while back, which points to a Court of Owls story arc among a few other details.
The Harry Potter game is supposedly an RPG title that was previously reported by Eurogamer quite a while back as videos all over Reddit and Youtube (taken down already) showed footage of the game in development.
The Rocksteady title is a little bit more mysterious. Rocksteady co-founder Sefton Hill himself debunked a rumor stating that they do have something in development and that it is NOT a Superman game. Could it be another comic book inspired title?
Looking forward to #TheGameAwards this year! We’re still hard at work in our development bunker so don’t expect an announcement from @Rocksteadygames. When it’s ready to show, you’ll be the first to know. Spoiler: it’s not Superman 😳
— Sefton Hill (@Seftonhill) November 30, 2018
If you’ll notice, the Harry Potter and Rocksteady mystery title has been silent for about a couple of years now and it was late last year where WB Games Montreal teased about the new Batman title, which leads us to believe that E3 2020 could have been the time to give some substantial and quality updates about these games during their planned press conference.
For now? We’ll have to wait and see what WB Games has up their sleeves as far as announcements go but here’s hoping that we get good updates from them real soon!
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