Rocksteady Studios heads leave, Suicide Squad ‘nearly finished’

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Rocksteady founders and also workshop heads Sefton Hill and also Jamie Walker will certainly be leaving the business at the end of this year, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment head of state David Haddad announced in a letter released on the Rocksteady Studios site on Wednesday.

“With Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League nearly finished, they have both decided to leave Rocksteady at the end of 2022 and will begin a new adventure in gaming,” Haddad composed in the article. “We have the utmost respect and gratitude for Jamie and Sefton and wish them all the best in their new endeavor, and like many fans, we look forward to what they do next.” In light of Hill and also Walker leaving Rocksteady Studios, Haddad revealed that establishing participant Nathan Burlow will certainly come to be the workshop supervisor at the business, while manufacturing supervisor Darius Sadeghian will certainly be advertised to workshop manufacturing supervisor.

In enhancement to Haddad, the letter additionally consists of remarks from Hill and also Walker, along with Burlow and also Sadeghian, stressing their satisfaction in their particular operate at Rocksteady Studios and also their exhilaration for the future. “From the day we founded the company in 2004 all the way to today, Rocksteady has been our life and soul,” Hill and also Walker composed. “It has given us the opportunity to do what we love most: make great games with exceptionally talented people. We are so proud of the team here for the games we have all made together, from our first game Urban Chaos, to the much-loved Arkham series, and now the epic Suicide Squad.”

In August of 2020, Rocksteady Studios was implicated of inactiveness over claims of sexism and also harassment at the business complying with a report published by The Guardian.

News of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s advancement go back as early as July 2010. The upcoming game embeded in the exact same world as the Batman: Arkham games that made Rocksteady’s name, and also will certainly happen months after the occasions of 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight.

This previous March, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was delayed to 2023, after at first being announced at DC FanDome in 2020 and also set to be released by the end of 2022.

 

Source: Polygon