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'Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight' Gameplay Preview | Button Mash

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Steve Ahlman sit down and chat about the extended sneak preview they got of the latest from TT Games, 'Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight'! They touch on and highlight its mix of classic Lego humor and Arkham-inspired gameplay, open-world Gotham, character-driven mechanics, and the celebration of Batman lore. Host: Ben Lindbergh Guest: Steve Ahlman Producers: Devon Renaldo and Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Ben Lindbergh of Buttonmash Moderate Fame, joined by my pal, Steve Arkham

0:26.5

Alman from the Midnight Boys. Hi, Steve.

0:28.9

Hey, Ben. How's it going? It's going well. There is a little video game coming out a little

0:33.1

later this month. It's called Lego Batman, Legacy of the Dark Night. People may have heard of it.

0:38.3

We will be covering it on button mash when everyone has their hands on it, but you had your grubby

0:44.5

little hands on it weeks before the rest of us. You got to attend a preview event. You spent some

0:51.4

time with this game. I'm not jealous at all. And so you are here to report back

0:56.4

on your experience. We're going to talk about what you saw and what you played while people watch

1:01.3

some of what you watched and played. So give us a sense of what this preview event was like.

1:08.0

Yes. Warner Brothers invited myself and producer Devon out to a secluded place in

1:14.1

Los Angeles to play a little bit of the new Lego Batman legacy of the Dark Knight video game.

1:20.8

And as you see here, it's a kind of delightful rendering of the Batman Arkham games of old.

1:29.0

And it's something of a passion project for TT Games that has been long in the works,

1:36.0

apparently.

1:36.8

And we've had a pretty extensive play-through time to talk about it.

1:42.6

They let us play the game for about two hours across three

1:46.7

different chapters and then a free-roaming section across Arkham City. It's a wonderful little

1:53.7

experience that I'm sort of excited to dive in with you about today. Yeah, so this is highly

1:59.4

anticipated, obviously. It comes out May 22nd.

2:02.6

For pretty much all platforms, there's a Switch 2 version coming out a little later after the other versions.

2:08.3

And it's anticipated because Batman and also because Lego and Lego Batman.

2:13.9

You put those two things together.

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