Today in Spurious But Totally Awesome Rumors

?You guys know I hate reporting rumors, but this one’s just too good to pass up: Rocksteady, makers of fine Batman games with the word Arkham in them, is supposedly making a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game in the same style. I’ll go ahead and paste some of the game’s details from Nerd Bastards, because I’m lazy:

? All four Turtles will be playable, with flashbacks played as Master Splinter/Hamato Yoshi.
? Gameplay and story/stage progression will be similar to Batman: Arkham City.
? Bosses include Bebop and Rocksteady, Dr. Baxter Stockman, Shredder
(Oroku Saki), and Krang. In the case of the humans-turned-mutants, you
fight them in both forms throughout the story.
? The Turtle Van and Turtle Blimp will be included.
? The game will use Arkham City’s graphics engine.
? The game is expected to be more dark than slapstick.

The rumor comes from the site Paul Gale Network, which even it lists a good number of reasons why it may be false. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that as reported, the game is at least somewhat fake — I’m having a hard time imagining a “dark” TMNT game that also include the Turtle Van and the Turtle Blimp — but even if the game is straight-up Arkham City port with the Turtles, that would be fucking spectacular. The combat and stealth engine would be perfect for terrapins with ninjitsu skills. Again, at the moment, I don’t think there’s any real reason to suspect this news has any basis in truth, but if we all sit around and hope really, really hard, maybe…?