The rumor stems from a tweet by Twitter account Hogwarts Legacy News. The tweet shows an image of a Gotham Knights display case at a game store, which claims that its release date is April 24, merely a month away. As one might imagine, this has drummed up quite a bit of excitement from fans thinking they will get to play Gotham Knights sooner rather than later, but it’s almost certainly a placeholder date.

RELATED: Rumor: Gotham Knights Tie-In Comic Coming from Court of Owls Team

Besides the fact that if a triple-A game like Gotham Knights was going to release in a month’s time that the release date would’ve already been announced, the big giveaway that this date is fake is that April 24 lands on a Sunday. Video game releases almost always happen on Tuesdays and Fridays, with very rare exceptions, and almost never on Sundays. Considering this, it is highly unlikely that the Gotham Knights release date is April 24, and so fans should take this with a massive grain of salt.

That being said, it is possible that fans will hear more about Gotham Knights soon. Unless plans changed, Warner Bros. is still planning to release Gotham Knights at some point in 2022, meaning that a release date announcement could come any day now. There are rumors that Sony will be hosting a new PlayStation State of Play event soon, so if those rumors are true, maybe Gotham Knights will make an appearance and confirm its release date.

Beyond that, Gotham Knights being an online co-op game means that it will likely have some kind of testing period ahead of launch. No official plans to that effect have been announced, but again, if the game is releasing in 2022, then one has to imagine that something like that would be announced in the relatively near future.

When Gotham Knights does release, it will be interesting to see how fans react to it. There’s been some skepticism because of the game’s co-op focus and the lack of Batman, but fans will have to wait to play the game for themselves.

Gotham Knights is in development for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

MORE: DC Games Need to Take a Break from Batman