GTA 6’s delay to November 2026 helps give different video games area to breathe, and that features the upcoming Lego Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight.
Jonathan Smith, the pinnacle of manufacturing at developer TT Video games, instructed IGN that his studio was taking a look at a Spring 2026 launch window for Legacy of the Darkish Knight. He now feels “actually glad” concerning the recreation’s Could 29, 2026 launch date, partially as a result of it is sufficient away from GTA 6 in November 2026.
“Look, I need to play that recreation [GTA 6], however we’re additionally actually glad to have some area for folks to play Lego Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight. We’re providing you with an open metropolis and a implausible expertise for all gamers. Which I completely advocate,” he mentioned.
The Batman recreation’s launch date was introduced in December 2025, and that was a couple of month after Rockstar introduced a delay for GTA 6 that pushed it out to November 19, 2026. Previous to that, GTA 6 was set to launch on Could 26, 2026, which might have put it very near Legacy of the Darkish Knight, assuming TT Video games had nonetheless gone with that date even after the GTA 6 delay.
Legacy of the Darkish Knight tells Bruce Wayne’s story from his origin by his coaching with The League of Shadows and as much as when he turns into a hero in Gotham Metropolis. The sport options quite a lot of different playable characters past Batman, together with Jim Gordon, Catwoman, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, and Talia al Ghul. The additionally options 20+ automobiles, together with Batmobiles and Batcycles, together with 100+ Batman fits from the character’s 86-year historical past.
It is anticipated that this yr’s Name of Responsibility recreation will launch in October or November, but it surely stays to be seen how shut it might be to GTA 6. The writer Devolver promised to launch a recreation on the identical day as GTA 6, however that was again when the sport was on faucet for a launch in Could 2026.
As for GTA 6, the sport arrives November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S. The sport’s advertising will start this summer season. Take-Two has denied the rumor that the sport will launch as a digital-exclusive recreation, confirmed there isn’t a generative AI content material within the recreation, and mentioned GTA On-line will reside on after GTA 6 comes out.