page_title: Gotham City Impostors
section_title: Development and marketing
hierarchical_section_title: Gotham City Impostors / Development and marketing
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context_page_description: Gotham City Impostors is a first-person shooter multiplayer-only video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Set in the universe of DC Comics' Batman, it consists of two teams of six players which try to kill the other team: one with amateur vigilantes dressed like Batman, and the other with criminals dressed like his archenemy, the Joker. It features customizable characters and a range of both traditional and imagined weapons.
  Unlike other Batman games, Gotham City Impostors was not physically released. It was released on Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows via Games for Windows – Live in February 2012. The game was re-released on Microsoft Windows as a free-to-play title in August 30, 2012 via Steam using Steamworks.
context_section_description: Batman: Impostors, a storyline that ran through Detective Comics #867-870, was inspired by Gotham City Impostors. The premise for the storyline is that the impostor Jokers were created by Winslow Heath, a man who was a victim of Joker venom early in Batman's career; as a result of narcotics that he had ingested before he was exposed to the venom, Heath survived the attack, but was left paralyzed while fully conscious for years, his features twisted into a permanent duplicate of the Joker's own visage. When he regained full mobility, he discovered that his girlfriend, Beth – who was exposed to the Joker venom under the same circumstances, as the two took the same drugs - was left to die in their apartment as Batman was so caught up in trying to catch the Joker that he never looked back after 'rescuing' Heath, with the result that Beth was left to get eaten alive by crows. Driven insane by the torment that he endured in the hospital, Heath called himself the Impostor Joker and created a unique 'Joker juice' named Formula 5 that would turn those who used it into temporary duplicates of the Joker with a significant high in the process, simultaneously posing as the Impostor Batman to rally others to also become impostor Batmen, go up against the impostor Jokers and trigger a gang war. Although Batman deduced the truth and captured Heath, he was left troubled at the implication that Heath was correct in his statement that Batman creates his own villains.
  The preview for Cartoon Network's upcoming animation block DC Nation Shorts in 2012 included animation of Gotham City Impostors. Downloadable content was released for all platforms and includes new weapons, costumes, and three new stages, The 25th Floor, Arkham Asylum, and East End.
  The game went free-to-play in 2012, but since then no new updates have been released. In the game's menu it was announced that, due to GameSpy shutting down on May 31, 2014, the servers for the PS3 version will shut down. As of July 25, 2014, all PS3 servers for Gotham City Impostors have been shut down and the game is now unplayable.
  It was released for free as part of the Xbox Live Games with Gold program on July 1, 2014.
  Gotham City Impostors remains obtainable and playable on PC via Steam.
caption: Promotion at E3 2011
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