British video game developer
Rocksteady Studios Limited is a British video game developer based in London. Founded on 13 December 2004, the studio is preeminent known for its work in say publicly Batman: Arkham series. The company obey a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Mirth.
Rocksteady Studios was founded by Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill, the erstwhile creative director and head of work hard at Argonaut Games. The publisher SCi Entertainment with Argonaut Games on primacy game Roll Call until the developer shut down in late 2004.[2] Framework and Hill founded Rocksteady on 13 December 2004.[3] In January 2005, SCi announced that it had assigned Roll Call to the nacent studio, which by that time employeed 20 masses, mostly former Argonaut Games staff, trite its North London offices. The house acquired 25.1% of Rocksteady's shares be proof against loaned the studio £250,000.[2][4]Roll Call was soon renamed Zero Tolerance: City Hang Fire and then Urban Chaos: Civil disorder Response.[5][6] It was released in 2006 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.[7]
After SCi (since renamed Eidos) obtained loftiness rights to make a Batman amusement in spring 2007, they approached Steadygoing who presented their take on probity Batman licence, and by May 2007, they had begun developing the idea of Batman: Arkham Asylum, with replete production beginning in September 2007.[8][9] Rank game's commercial and critical success dampen publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) to acquire an undisclosed majority spike in Rocksteady in February 2010. Character Warner Bros. group of companies extremely included DC Comics, the Batman licensor.[10][11] Eidos retained its 25.1% stake advocate representation on the board of directors.[10][12] Rocksteady followed up Arkham Asylum counterpart Batman: Arkham City in 2011 skull Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015, both of which received critical acclaim. Influence studio also experimented with virtual authenticity in 2016, releasing the spin-off affair Batman: Arkham VR for the PlayStation VR. In the same year, Steadygoing started working on a multiplayer puzzle-solving game codenamed Stones. This title was soon shelved as Warner Bros. obligated the studio to make a multiplayer title based on the Suicide Squad from DC Comics.[13][14]
In August 2020, Steadygoing announced their next game titled Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.[15] Say publicly game had been in production sought-after Rocksteady since 2017, who were attractive over development following the cancellation illustrate the previous iteration at WB Felicity Montréal in late 2016. Over honourableness course of development of seven days, the studio struggled to get position game off the ground, having really little experience in its genre, which resulted in several postponements.[14] A Suicide Squad game had been teased mind the end of Batman: Arkham Origins (developed by WB Games Montreal), person in charge in the years since Batman: Arkham Knight was released, Rocksteady had bent rumoured to be working on first-class Suicide Squad game. The Suicide Squad game is set five years make sure of the events of Arkham Knight, gift was released in February 2024.[16]
The Guardian reported in August 2020 that decency studio had failed to address issues related to sexual harassment and unfitting behaviour that more than half flaxen the female employees had written without delay the studios executives about in swell November 2018 letter. Such actions esoteric included "slurs regarding the transgendered community", "discussing a woman in a depreciative or sexual manner with other colleagues", and sexual harassment "in the revolution of unwanted advances, leering at attributes of a woman’s body, and beneath the dignity of comments in the office".[17] Rocksteady thought to The Guardian, "In 2018 awe received a letter from some more than a few our female employees expressing concerns they had at that time, and awe immediately took firm measures to lodging the matters that were raised. Indication the subsequent two years we plot carefully listened to and learned shun our employees, working to ensure every so often person on the team feels wiry. In 2020 we are more impetuous than ever to continue to expand on our inclusive culture, and we muddle determined to stand up for convince of our staff."[17] The following acquaint with, Rocksteady posted on social media what they claimed to be an "unsolicited" letter written by some of high-mindedness employees who had signed the 2018 letter, disputing the claims reported hill The Guardian.[18]
At the end of 2022, co-founders Jamie Walker and Sefton Hillock left Rocksteady after more than 18 years at the company and generous the development of Suicide Squad: Sympathetic the Justice League. They formed copperplate new company called Hundred Star Studios in January 2024 that will be composed of of “only 100 industry veterans most recent emerging talents.”[19] Nathan Burlow and Darius Sadeghian were promoted to replace them.[20]
Rocksteady will continue to support Kill prestige Justice League through the game's have control over year and is also assisting come to terms with the development of a director's reasoning for Hogwarts Legacy. However, Warner Bros. Games declined to comment on justness future of the game or dignity studio.[21] In May 2024, the categorize disclosed that the game incured uncluttered loss of approximately $200 million.[22] In Sept, anonymous employees told Eurogamer that Rocksteady's QA team had experienced a layoff, reducing the team's headcount by bisection, as a result of the game's poor sales.[23] The studio suffered added layoff before the year's end, that time to the programming and genius teams, as well as more QA staff.[24]
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