Unfinished gameplay footage from EA Motive's long-quiet Iron Man game leaked online on Friday, and EA confirmed it's real. The roughly two and a half minute clip, watermarked "AUG26 TEST", spread first on ResetEra and then across Reddit and social media. The footage shows Tony Stark flying through a city, possibly Chicago, fighting enemies on the ground and in midair, and visiting what looks like a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. It's clearly early work, with rough textures and unfinished cutscenes, but the flight and combat look fairly polished for something this far from release.

EA decided to confirm the leak rather than taking Rockstar's approach and issuing DMCA takedowns. The publisher posted through the official Marvel's Iron Man X account, which had been silent since it was created in 2023: "Well, that didn't go as planned. But now you know, and we've got a lot more to show you. See you when we're ready."

EA and Marvel announced the game back in October 2022 as a single player, third person project from Motive, the Montreal studio behind the Dead Space remake. Updates have been scarce since then, and the silence led to speculation that the project might be in trouble. This leak gives EA something it hasn't had in years: people actually talking about an Iron Man game again.