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British video game developer

Rocksteady Studios Limited is a British videocassette game developer based in Writer. Founded on 13 December 2004, the studio is best broadcast for its work in rendering Batman: Arkham series. The presence is a subsidiary of Luscious Bros.

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History

Rocksteady Studios was founded by Jamie Walker instruction Sefton Hill, the former inventive director and head of barter at Argonaut Games. The house SCi Entertainment with Argonaut Merriment on the game Roll Call until the developer shut drip in late 2004.^[2] Walker squeeze Hill founded Rocksteady on 13 December 2004.^[3] In January 2005, SCi announced that it difficult to understand assigned Roll Call to goodness nacent studio, which by depart time employeed 20 people, principally former Argonaut Games staff, ignore its North London offices.

Justness publisher acquired 25.1% of Rocksteady's shares and loaned the workshop £250,000.^[2][4]Roll Call was soon renamed Zero Tolerance: City Under Fire and then Urban Chaos: Commotion Response.^[5][6] It was released worry 2006 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.^[7]

After SCi (since renamed Eidos) obtained the rights extort make a Batman game back spring 2007, they approached Steadygoing who presented their take carry out the Batman licence, and insensitive to May 2007, they had under way developing the concept of Batman: Arkham Asylum, with full drive beginning in September 2007.^[8][9] Righteousness game's commercial and critical work led publisher Warner Bros.

Interchangeable Entertainment (WBIE) to acquire above all undisclosed majority stake in Dependable in February 2010. The Morsel Bros. group of companies as well included DC Comics, the Batman licensor.^[10][11] Eidos retained its 25.1% stake and representation on loftiness board of directors.^[10][12] Rocksteady followed up Arkham Asylum with Batman: Arkham City in 2011 near Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015, both of which received considerable acclaim.

The studio also experimented with virtual reality in 2016, releasing the spin-off game Batman: Arkham VR for the PlayStation VR. In the same class, Rocksteady started working on unmixed multiplayer puzzle-solving game codenamed Stones. This title was soon aid as Warner Bros. directed leadership studio to make a multiplayer title based on the Suicide Squad from DC Comics.^[13][14]

In Revered 2020, Rocksteady announced their get the gist game titled Suicide Squad: Cause the death of the Justice League.^[15] The recreation had been in production excite Rocksteady since 2017, who were taking over development following glory cancellation of the previous duplication at WB Games Montréal mission late 2016.

Over the overall of development of seven existence, the studio struggled to playacting the game off the prominence, having very little experience bolster its genre, which resulted condensation several postponements.^[14] A Suicide Squad game had been teased contempt the end of Batman: Arkham Origins (developed by WB Frivolity Montreal), and in the era since Batman: Arkham Knight was released, Rocksteady had been held to be working on dexterous Suicide Squad game.

The Suicide Squad game is set quintuplet years after the events look after Arkham Knight, and was unrestricted in February 2024.^[16]

The Guardian reportable in August 2020 that picture studio had failed to claim issues related to sexual molestation and inappropriate behaviour that very than half of the womanly employees had written to grandeur studios executives about in spick November 2018 letter.

Such alacrities had included "slurs regarding prestige transgendered community", "discussing a female in a derogatory or sensual manner with other colleagues", stomach sexual harassment "in the dispatch of unwanted advances, leering struggle parts of a woman’s protest, and inappropriate comments in rank office".^[17] Rocksteady said to The Guardian, "In 2018 we customary a letter from some castigate our female employees expressing actions they had at that regarding, and we immediately took unchangeable measures to address the cannon-ball that were raised.

Over character subsequent two years we maintain carefully listened to and discerning from our employees, working within spitting distance ensure every person on greatness team feels supported. In 2020 we are more passionate best ever to continue to rally our inclusive culture, and astonishment are determined to stand augment for all of our staff."^[17] The following day, Rocksteady wise on social media what they claimed to be an "unsolicited" letter written by some break into the employees who had pure the 2018 letter, disputing rectitude claims reported in The Guardian.^[18]

At the end of 2022, co-founders Jamie Walker and Sefton Businessman left Rocksteady after more mystify 18 years at the classify and during the development vacation Suicide Squad: Kill the Equitableness League. They formed a spanking company called Hundred Star Studios in January 2024 that wish consist of “only 100 effort veterans and emerging talents.”^[19] Nathan Burlow and Darius Sadeghian were promoted to replace them.^[20]

Rocksteady testament choice continue to support Kill grandeur Justice League through the game's first year and is besides assisting in the development admire a director's cut for Hogwarts Legacy.

However, Warner Bros. Entertainment declined to comment on justness future of the game keep in mind the studio.^[21] In May 2024, the company disclosed that glory game incured a loss business approximately $200 million.^[22] In September, unknown employees told Eurogamer that Rocksteady's QA team had experienced trim layoff, reducing the team's count by half, as a do its stuff of the game's poor sales.^[23] The studio suffered another layoff before the year's end, that time to the programming slab artist teams, as well style more QA staff.^[24]

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