Electronic Arts Worked on a Batman Game Inspired by The Dark Knight Movie

We have seen plenty of Batman video games, mostly thanks to the Batman: Arkham game series. But even next year we will see a new project about the Caped Crusader—LEGO Batman: The Legacy of the Dark Knight, which is set to be one of the most massive games about the iconic superhero.

Unfortunately, not all Batman games have seen the light of day. A new GamingLeaksAndRumors posted on Reddit reveals there was a Batman game developed by Pandemic Studios Brisbane (Destroy All Humans!) and should have been published by Electronic Arts; the project was in active development since 2006, and the developers eyed a release in 2008, the same year Christopher Nolan released his The Dark Knight movie, starring Christian Bale as Batman and Heath Ledger as The Joker.

As explained in a Reddit post, the game had an open world, a couple of storylines, and even included some villains that weren’t in the movie. But it was cancelled because the game’s engine had so many problems and errors during the production. You can check Reddit’s post and some leaked images of the cancelled Batman game below:

“Not to be confused with Monolith Productions' Project Apollo from 2010, this game was being made by Pandemic Studios Brisbane around 2006-2008 and would have been published by EA.

This game was supposed to include a huge open world and stealth elements with a couple of storylines and villains that weren't in the movie, it was planned to be released around the same time of the movie in July 2008.

To put it short: it probably would have been the Batman equivalent to the 2004 Spider-Man 2 movie tie-in game.

However, the game engine that was chosen by Pandemic caused a lot of technical issues and glitches, basically rendering it unplayable.

Despite EA and Pandemic's best efforts to save the game by delaying it to December to coincide with the release of the DVD and Blu-Ray editions of the movie and increasing Pandemic Brisbane's workforce to 100 developers, it wasn't enough, and EA decided to cancel it 2 months before its planned December release date.

Pandemic Brisbane was later shut down on Christmas day.”

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The next Batman game, LEGO Batman: The Legacy of the Dark Knight will release on May 29, 2026 for PC, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2.