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Previously unseen concept art purportedly showing character designs from Warner Bros. Games Montreal’s cancelled Batman: Arkham Knight follow-up Project Sabbath has surfaced online, showing further glimpses of a beardy Bruce Wayne, Damian Wayne, and more.

Whispers of Project Sabbath’s existence first emerged back in 2016, with Batman: Arkham Oranges developer Warner Bros. Games Montreal said to be at the helm. Along the way, however, Project Sabbath was ditched in favour of what would ultimately become the rather middling Gotham Knights, and much of what we know about the cancelled game has been gleaned through various bits of concept art that’ve emerged over the years.

In 2019, for instance, concept art from Project Sabbath – which would supposedly see Bruce Wayne’s son Damian donning the famous cowl and cape – popped up on 4chan, showing off various elements including an older Bruce Wayne, a rundown Gotham City, Gorilla Grodd, and more. All that was accompanied by claims the game would have used Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s acclaimed Nemesis System. Additional concept art then emerged two years later, offering closer looks at both Bruce and Damien.

And now, yet more Project Sabbath concept art has emerged, this time from character artist Rodrigue Pralier, who worked at Warner Bros. Games Montreal circa 2014/2015. Although the Artstation page originally featuring the concepts has now been removed, the images have been saved for posterity on social media, revealing a further look at Damian Wayne and his beardy pa Bruce, alongside Killer Croc, The Huntress, and more.

New concept art from WB Games Montréal’s cancelled 2015 Damian Wayne game “Project Sabbath” has surfaced, shared by character artist Rodrigue Pralier. The pieces clearly show Damian, an older Bruce, Killer Croc, and Huntress.

Check them out here: artstation.com/artwork/2Bn8yA

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Gotham Knights – the title WB Games Montreal switched its attention to after ditching Project Sabbath – did, of course, fail to generate much enthusiasm among critics and fans, and it was followed in 2024 by Arkham Knight studio Rocksteady’s Suicide: Kill the Justice League. That proved to be another Batman-adjacent flop in a year that also saw Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions underperform and the limp return of Warner’s now-cancelled MultiVersus.

At the start of this year – following several rounds of layoffs across its studios – Warner Bros. Games boss David Haddad departed the company. Just a month later Warner Bros. announced it was cancelling Monolith Productions’ long-in-the-works Wonder Woman game, closing the studio, and shutting down Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games San Diego too. Since then, it’s announced a drastic shift in leadership that’ll see it refocusing on several core brands, including Mortal Kombat, Harry Potter, DC, and Game of Thrones.

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When a game is in the works as long as Dragon Age: The Veilguard was, it’s bound to have a ton of unused assets and concept art. Developers like BioWare go through so many artistic iterations of a game within normal development cycles, so you can imagine how many more a game like The Veilguard had when it was rebooted twice and in development for a decade. The cool thing is that when we do get a concept art drop, we get an in-depth look at what could have been, or in this case, we get some pretty rad art of characters we already know and love, which we can use as phone wallpapers or possibly print out to display as decoration.

Volta Studio, a company that makes concept art for games and movies, recently updated its ArtStation account with several pieces from its work on The Veilguard. If you’ve played the game or read its art book, a fair bit of this will be familiar to you. However, there’s one set I want to draw attention to, and it’s the character posters Volta worked on for each party member, as well as for Varric, the player’s dwarven peepaw, and the elven trickster god Solas.

A lot of The Veilguard’s marketing campaign focused on the party above all else. The characters you befriend and woo are typically the draw of BioWare’s games, so it makes sense that the studio would want to spotlight them as much as possible in trailers, podcasts, and promotional art. At some point, this included some incredible character art for the team that is maybe some of the best art we’ve ever had of the group. Each piece captures a particular character’s personality, aesthetics, and story in one clean shot.

To call out a few favorites, I really love the Solas, Davrin, and Emmrich pieces. The cool blue tones on Solas give him an air of god-like power, and his dread wolf namesakes appear alongside him as loyal pets. He wasn’t intimidating when he debuted in 2014’s Inquisition, but he sure is here. Davrin is my Veilguard boo, but I promise I’m not being biased giving him a shoutout here. He and our griffon son Assan look fucking sick here, with the beast perched on the Warden’s back and defending him with his wing. That being said, I think the Emmrich piece is my favorite. Seeing the mage surrounded by adoring skeletons, including one that lovingly caresses his face, captures both his love of necromancy and his gentle romantic side. Click through to see all nine.

All this concept art is cool to look back on, but it does bring to mind the sad state of BioWare after publisher EA gutted the studio following The Veilguard’s disappointing sales. Those that remain are currently working on the fifth Mass Effect game.

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Batman: Arkham Knight’s cancelled follow-up resurfaces in previously unseen concept art

The Veilguard Gets A Massive Concept Art Drop