Gotham Knights, the video game that kills off Batman

How do you make a Batman game without the man himself? Warner Bros Games in Montreal is giving it a shot with an open-world multiplayer game that sees a new guard of four heroes take his place

At the Warner Bros Games studio in Montreal, a 7ft Batman statue greets visitors at reception. Comics are crammed into every shelf between each desk. And rather than images of lattes and flat whites, the coffee machine proudly displays the bat symbol.

So, it might surprise you to learn that the people who work here have killed Batman.