A brand new report claims Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have signed a take care of Xbox to fund their new studio’s subsequent huge AAA motion sport.
Rocksteady is most well-known for its Batman: Arkham trilogy, that includes fluid fight, giant open maps, and widespread villains like Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze, and the Joker. After releasing Arkham Knight in 2015, the studio shifted gears and developed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, an online-only third-person looter shooter staring villains set in the identical DC universe as Rocksteady’s Arkham franchise. However in 2022, earlier than that sport launched to meh critiques earlier this yr, Rocksteady’s co-founders, Hill and Walker, left the studio to kind a brand new firm that’s now reportedly engaged on a sport for Microsoft.
In accordance with a brand new report by eXputer, Hundred Star—the studio created by Rocksteady’s co-founders in 2023—has signed a take care of Xbox Recreation Studios to develop a “AAA-standard, single-player, action-adventure sport” inbuilt Unreal 5.
Kotaku has reached out to Xbox and Hundred Star Video games in regards to the report.
Not a lot is understood in regards to the mission but, doubtless as a result of it’s nonetheless extraordinarily early days for the sport. At this level, it’s nonetheless years and years away from launch. eXputer says the take care of Xbox has been signed, and permitted, with Hundred Star now receiving funding to develop the AAA motion sport. It may be an Xbox and PC unique, prone to launch on Recreation Cross, however contemplating how unsure all of that appears proper now—with Xbox video games arriving on PS5—it’s unimaginable to say for positive.
In 2020, Rocksteady responded to a report by The Guardian detailing sexual harassment in its office, saying, “All formal complaints had been completely investigated, addressed appropriately and a variety of severe measures had been taken in response to the problems that had been surfaced, together with self-discipline or termination of workers.” In 2022, Suicide Squad author Kim MacAskill handed on a lifetime achievement award from Girls in Video games which was sponsored by Rocksteady Studios and its guardian firm, Warner Bros., amongst others.
“You’ll be able to throw your identify on each range occasion going,” MacAskill stated, “however until you’re taking accountability, it means nothing and I see you.”
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