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Some industry insiders are wondering why The Dark Knight didn't come out with a video game counterpart as well?

The movie alone has brought in over $400 million. And, estimates are that video sales could have brought in an extra $100 million.

According to reports, gaming corp Electronic Arts has the rights to make a Dark Knight game, so why was nothing made?

It seems the game is in production, but the timing is way off.

Gary Oldman, who played officer James Gordon in the movie, says he's only seen a "tiny little piece" of "The Dark Knight" game.

He described a sequenced that showed Batman going from rooftop to rooftop, and said the game is supposed to fell as if it "doesn't stop and start."

Video game industry analyst Michael Pachter says, "I think publishers have concluded the only games that work are the surefire $500 million box office kind of games like Spider-Man and Shrek. The 'Transformers' game really surprised people how well it did, but the movie was big. I don't think they expected 'The Dark Knight' movie to be this big."

Yea, we're not sure it would have been this big if it wasn't for all the media attention and news surrounding the movie due to Heath Ledger's death.

Though EA was probably worried that they'd have another repeat of the previous Batman movie and game releases.

Back in 2005, EA released Batman Begins to go along with director Chris Nolan's movie.

The game even featured the voices of the main characters like Christian Bale, Katie Holmes and Morgan Freeman. However, the game only sold about 587,000 copies. Definitely not a good amount.

Though some Batman characters will be released into a few upcoming games, such as Batman, The Joker, and Two-Face in Warner's "Lego Batman: The Video Game" in September.

A few other characters will also appear in Midway's "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe."

Let's hope EA gets on it before it's too late.

Perez


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