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Inside the Canceled Batman Game That Would Have Pitted the Dark Knight Against Jack the Ripper

A forgotten Batman game would have brought Jack the Ripper to Victorian Gotham, and prototype footage reveals what could’ve been.

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When Batman: Arkham Asylum launched in 2009, Day 1 Studios—the developers behind F.3.A.R.—were already working on their own pitch for a video game featuring the Caped Crusader. In Gotham by Gaslight, players would’ve assumed the role of Batman as he pursued the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper. Based on the one-shot comic book of the same name (which included an intro from Psycho author Robert Bloch), the game was to be set in 19th-century Gotham City. 

Not much is known about the proposed plot beyond........

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