The studio behind the Batman: Arkham franchise of video games, and extra lately Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Rocksteady, has been hit by a brand new spherical of layoffs. In response to Eurogamer, the layoffs occurred earlier than the top of 2024, and included programmers, members of the artist groups, a number of the QA workers.
Guardian firm Warner Bros. Video games hasn’t made any touch upon the layoffs affecting Rocksteady as of but.
The studio was hit with a spherical of layoffs again in September 2024 as effectively, which resulted in Rocksteady shedding greater than half of its QA workers on the time. The explanations for each of those layoffs could be because of the poor reception and gross sales of Rocksteady’s most up-to-date launch, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Our personal evaluate of the sport criticised it closely for its mediocrity, which was thought-about a disgrace owing to the truth that Rocksteady has, up to now, made well-reviewed single-player titles. A key level of criticism about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is the truth that it’s a multiplayer-only live-service title with repetitive gameplay.
Warner Bros. Video games had revealed after the sport’s preliminary launch that it had fallen wanting gross sales expectations, leading to a 41 % drop in income.
The layoffs have come regardless of different rumours indicating {that a} new sport based mostly on Batman is at the moment in improvement at Rocksteady. The brand new title is predicted to be part of the Arkham collection, however neither the studio, nor WB Video games have confirmed the title.
Different rumours point out that improvement of the sport was probably impressed by the studio wanting to return to its roots in growing single-player titles fairly than multiplayer live-service ones like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
For extra particulars and perception into the historical past and present standing of Rocksteady video games, take a look at our protection of the studio’s rise and fall from final 12 months.
