{"id":85823,"date":"2016-02-02T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85823"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:44:43","slug":"footage-of-the-dark-knight-video-game-that-never-came-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/85823-footage-of-the-dark-knight-video-game-that-never-came-to-be","title":{"rendered":"Footage of The Dark Knight video game that never came to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about every big-name blockbuster that releases on the big-screen is accompanied by a tie-in video game, so when Christopher Nolan&#8217;s Batman follow-up, <em>The Dark Knight<\/em>, released in 2008, it was rather peculiar when no video game was released along side it.<\/p>\n<p>What made it even stranger was that its predecessor, <em>Batman Begins<\/em>, did get\u00a0its own licensed video game, even though it wasn&#8217;t particularly good.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, there was such a game in the works (reportedly), but nothing ever came of it.<\/p>\n<p>So, video game secret-seeker Unseen64 hit the industry vaults to see what he could find on the never-to-be-seen <em>Dark Knight<\/em> video game, and what he found was pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This cancelled Batman project was an open world stealth action game being made by Pandemic Studios to be published by EA. It was in development from 2006 to 2008, and was originally meant to release alongside <em>The Dark Knight<\/em> movie. The game would also feature actors from the film doing voiceover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His investigation proves to be quite an interesting watch, so check it out below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTCayY8FDT0?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/85683-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-a-comparison-between-console-pc-and-high-and-low-settings.html\">Rise of the Tomb Raider: a comparison between console, PC and High and Low settings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/85679-playstation-plus-for-february-includes-persona-4-arena-ultimax-and-hell-divers.html\">PlayStation Plus for February includes Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Hell Divers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/85673-xbox-lives-games-with-gold-for-february-styx-master-of-shadows-gears-of-war-2-and-more.html\">Xbox Live\u2019s Games with Gold for February \u2013 Styx: Master of Shadows, Gears of War 2 and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/85609-games-of-february-too-much-to-choose-from.html\">Games of February \u2013 too much to choose from<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Arkham franchise, a funny immersive Gotham City awaited gamers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":85825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[247,17139,17135,17137,175,813,17141,17133],"class_list":["post-85823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-batman","tag-batman-the-dark-knight","tag-batman-video-game","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-pandemic-studios","tag-the-dark-knight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85829,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85823\/revisions\/85829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}