Following the runaway success of Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel Arkham City, don't look for Warner Bros. Interactive to return to movie tie-ins anytime soon.

Instead, the new Warner Bros. Games Montreal has been given a mandate: to just make good video games. Specifically, good games based on DC Comics properties. "It’s really about make the game what it needs to be and forget the movies," Reid Schneider, the studio's head of production, told Canadian Business.

"If you look over the past decade of superhero games, there were two. The first one was when Neversoft made Spider-Man — I think it was back on the PS1. People were like, ‘Wow, this is really good,' and then a couple of things came out that were okay," he said. "Then Rocksteady came out with Arkham Asylum and that again changed the expectations. If you look at the similarities between the two, they weren’t based on movies per se. They were just taking that really rich fiction from the comic books and exploring the characters. It’s not about hitting the movie date or some arbitrary date — it was giving the game the time it needs to be successful and really just concentrating on the quality of it."

To that end, the Montreal studio is collaborating with DC Comics to develop several video games -- there's one set for release next year, in fact -- but the details, and even the names, remain a secret.

"We’re definitely working closely with DC on different titles, yet to be announced," said studio head Martin Carrier. "It’s one of the reasons we talk to Geoff Johns and Jim Lee on a regular basis. It’s interesting for our geeky side to be in touch with those guys, especially now that they’ve relaunched all the 52. It’s a good time to be working with DC. There’s so much energy going on there."