Suicide Squad Studio Rocksteady Reportedly Hit by Extra Layoffs Avid gamers Enviornment

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Batman: Arkham developer Rocksteady Studios was apparently hit by but extra layoffs on the shut of final yr, in keeping with a brand new report.

Per Eurogamer, which cites “half a dozen workers impacted by the redundancies”, a number of Rocksteady workers misplaced their jobs on the finish of 2024, though the report would not state precisely what number of workers had been let go.

In accordance with the report, Rocksteady’s “programming and artist groups” had been affected by the layoffs, and but extra QA workers additionally misplaced their jobs after a spherical of layoffs hit that exact same division again in September.

Eurogamer says it contacted Warner Bros. for a response however did not obtain one, which most likely should not come as a shock; neither this spherical of layoffs nor the earlier spherical in September had been formally introduced by the corporate.

Sadly, these layoffs additionally most likely should not be a shock, unhappy as they’re. Again in December, Rocksteady introduced that it might finish content material updates for Suicide Squad following the sport’s fourth season and that it might implement the offline mode it promised in December 2023.

That information got here after Warner Bros. declared Suicide Squad to be a monetary disappointment in February final yr, with the sport representing an embarrassing $200 million loss for the corporate’s gaming division. There’s solely a lot Hogwarts Legacy can do to offset a loss like that.

In accordance with a report in June, Rocksteady workers are serving to to develop a Director’s Minimize model of that exact same wizarding RPG, though no such challenge has been formally introduced by Warner Bros (are you sensing a theme rising right here?).

That very same report additionally claimed that Rocksteady is getting ready to pitch a single-player sport that might be nearer to its Batman: Arkham roots than the live-service experiment of Suicide Squad.

It is not clear whether or not these latest layoffs will have an effect on the studio’s means to efficiently make that pitch, however I am unable to think about it is simple being at Rocksteady proper now. Keep tuned for extra on this.