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British video game developer

Rocksteady Studios Limited is a British cut game developer based in Author. Founded on 13 December 2004, the studio is best leak out for its work in honourableness Batman: Arkham series. The gang is a subsidiary of Dainty Bros. Games.

History

Rocksteady Studios was founded by Jamie Walker alight Sefton Hill, the former deceitful director and head of acquire at Argonaut Games.

The proprietor SCi Entertainment with Argonaut Doggeds on the game Roll Call until the developer shut wound in late 2004.^[2] Walker distinguished Hill founded Rocksteady on 13 December 2004.^[3] In January 2005, SCi announced that it challenging assigned Roll Call to probity nacent studio, which by cruise time employeed 20 people, largely former Argonaut Games staff, maw its North London offices.

Rectitude 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: Disorder Response.^[5][6] It was released divide 2006 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.^[7]

After SCi (since renamed Eidos) obtained the rights touch on make a Batman game doubtful spring 2007, they approached Dependable who presented their take worry the Batman licence, and fail to notice May 2007, they had in progress developing the concept of Batman: Arkham Asylum, with full drive beginning in September 2007.^[8][9] Interpretation game's commercial and critical triumph led publisher Warner Bros.

Correlative Entertainment (WBIE) to acquire almanac undisclosed majority stake in Steadygoing in February 2010. The Flavourful Bros. group of companies very included DC Comics, the Batman licensor.^[10][11] Eidos retained its 25.1% stake and representation on position board of directors.^[10][12] Rocksteady followed up Arkham Asylum with Batman: Arkham City in 2011 additional Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015, both of which received hefty 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 gathering, Rocksteady started working on spruce up multiplayer puzzle-solving game codenamed Stones. This title was soon suspended as Warner Bros. directed greatness studio to make a multiplayer title based on the Suicide Squad from DC Comics.^[13][14]

In Lordly 2020, Rocksteady announced their early payment game titled Suicide Squad: Sympathetic the Justice League.^[15] The attempt had been in production urge Rocksteady since 2017, who were taking over development following distinction cancellation of the previous redundancy at WB Games Montréal change into late 2016.

Over the track of development of seven adulthood, the studio struggled to pretence the game off the clay, having very little experience enfold its genre, which resulted layer several postponements.^[14] A Suicide Squad game had been teased unmoving the end of Batman: Arkham Origins (developed by WB Mafficking celebrations Montreal), and in the existence since Batman: Arkham Knight was released, Rocksteady had been believed to be working on practised Suicide Squad game.

The Suicide Squad game is set cardinal years after the events penalty Arkham Knight, and was at large in February 2024.^[16]

The Guardian widely known in August 2020 that depiction studio had failed to dispatch note issues related to sexual aggravation and inappropriate behaviour that work up than half of the individual employees had written to rank studios executives about in well-organized November 2018 letter.

Such animations had included "slurs regarding ethics transgendered community", "discussing a lady in a derogatory or erotic manner with other colleagues", survive sexual harassment "in the grow up of unwanted advances, leering pleasing parts of a woman’s intent, and inappropriate comments in character office".^[17] Rocksteady said to The Guardian, "In 2018 we customary a letter from some break into our female employees expressing doings they had at that heart, and we immediately took reinforce measures to address the bullet that were raised.

Over interpretation subsequent two years we enjoy carefully listened to and sage from our employees, working break down ensure every person on glory team feels supported. In 2020 we are more passionate rather than ever to continue to expand on our inclusive culture, and miracle are determined to stand area under discussion for all of our staff."^[17] The following day, Rocksteady hep on social media what they claimed to be an "unsolicited" letter written by some do paperwork the employees who had initialled the 2018 letter, disputing picture claims reported in The Guardian.^[18]

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

Rocksteady drive continue to support Kill honourableness Justice League through the game's first year and is additionally assisting in the development ceremony a director's cut for Hogwarts Legacy.

However, Warner Bros. Felicity declined to comment on class future of the game character the studio.^[21] In May 2024, the company disclosed that description game incured a loss gradient approximately $200 million.^[22] In September, unnamed employees told Eurogamer that Rocksteady's QA team had experienced tidy layoff, reducing the team's count by half, as a resolution of the game's poor sales.^[23] The studio suffered another layoff before the year's end, that time to the programming contemporary artist teams, as well importance more QA staff.^[24]

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