Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Batman: Arkham developer Rocksteady Studios was apparently hit by yet more layoffs at the close of last year, according to a new report.
Per Eurogamer, which cites "half a dozen staff impacted by the redundancies", several Rocksteady staff lost their jobs at the end of 2024, although the report doesn't state exactly how many employees were let go.
According to the report, Rocksteady's "programming and artist teams" were affected by the layoffs, and yet more QA staff also lost their jobs after a round of layoffs hit that very same department back in September.
Eurogamer says it contacted Warner Bros. for a response but didn't receive one, which probably shouldn't come as a surprise; neither this round of layoffs nor the previous round in September were officially announced by the company.
Sadly, these layoffs also probably shouldn't be a shock, sad as they are. Back in December, Rocksteady announced that it would end content updates for Suicide Squad following the game's fourth season and that it would implement the offline mode it promised in December 2023.
That news came after Warner Bros. declared Suicide Squad to be a financial disappointment in February last year, with the game representing an embarrassing $200 million loss for the company's gaming division. There's only so much Hogwarts Legacy can do to offset a loss like that.
According to a report in June, Rocksteady employees are helping to develop a Director's Cut version of that very same wizarding RPG, although no such project has been officially announced by Warner Bros (are you sensing a theme emerging here?).
That same report also claimed that Rocksteady is preparing to pitch a single-player game that would be closer to its Batman: Arkham roots than the live-service experiment of Suicide Squad.
It isn't clear whether these recent layoffs will affect the studio's ability to successfully make that pitch, but I can't imagine it's easy being at Rocksteady right now. Stay tuned for more on this.
