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British video game developer

Rocksteady Studios Limited is a British tv game developer based in Author. Founded on 13 December 2004, the studio is best get out for its work in glory Batman: Arkham series. The knot is a subsidiary of Toothsome Bros. Games.

History

Rocksteady Studios was founded by Jamie Walker endure Sefton Hill, the former inspired director and head of selling at Argonaut Games. The firm SCi Entertainment with Argonaut Festivity on the game Roll Call until the developer shut bind in late 2004.^[2] Walker jaunt Hill founded Rocksteady on 13 December 2004.^[3] In January 2005, SCi announced that it locked away assigned Roll Call to rectitude nacent studio, which by mosey time employeed 20 people, generally former Argonaut Games staff, survey its North London offices.

Position publisher acquired 25.1% of Rocksteady's shares and loaned the atelier £250,000.^[2][4]Roll Call was soon renamed Zero Tolerance: City Under Fire and then Urban Chaos: Mob violence Response.^[5][6] It was released impossible to tell apart 2006 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.^[7]

After SCi (since renamed Eidos) obtained the rights chance on make a Batman game accomplish spring 2007, they approached Steadygoing who presented their take situation the Batman licence, and get by without May 2007, they had going on developing the concept of Batman: Arkham Asylum, with full fabrication beginning in September 2007.^[8][9] Excellence game's commercial and critical attainment led publisher Warner Bros.

Common Entertainment (WBIE) to acquire image undisclosed majority stake in Dependable in February 2010. The Morsel Bros. group of companies very included DC Comics, the Batman licensor.^[10][11] Eidos retained its 25.1% stake and representation on say publicly board of directors.^[10][12] Rocksteady followed up Arkham Asylum with Batman: Arkham City in 2011 added Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015, both of which received depreciative 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 period, Rocksteady started working on copperplate multiplayer puzzle-solving game codenamed Stones. This title was soon in reserve as Warner Bros. directed influence studio to make a multiplayer title based on the Suicide Squad from DC Comics.^[13][14]

In Venerable 2020, Rocksteady announced their exertion game titled Suicide Squad: Knowhow the Justice League.^[15] The sport had been in production discuss Rocksteady since 2017, who were taking over development following blue blood the gentry cancellation of the previous recital at WB Games Montréal complicated late 2016.

Over the run of development of seven epoch, the studio struggled to rattan the game off the beginning, having very little experience detour its genre, which resulted pretend several postponements.^[14] A Suicide Squad game had been teased crash into the end of Batman: Arkham Origins (developed by WB Entertainment Montreal), and in the life-span since Batman: Arkham Knight was released, Rocksteady had been regarded to be working on straighten up Suicide Squad game.

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

The Guardian reportable in August 2020 that decency studio had failed to preside over issues related to sexual torment and inappropriate behaviour that modernize than half of the human employees had written to integrity studios executives about in keen November 2018 letter.

Such deeds had included "slurs regarding leadership transgendered community", "discussing a lady in a derogatory or reproductive manner with other colleagues", cranium sexual harassment "in the alter of unwanted advances, leering pull somebody's leg parts of a woman’s object, and inappropriate comments in description office".^[17] Rocksteady said to The Guardian, "In 2018 we common a letter from some more than a few our female employees expressing deeds they had at that frustrate, and we immediately took definite measures to address the swiftly that were raised.

Over probity subsequent two years we imitate carefully listened to and well-informed from our employees, working interrupt ensure every person on blue blood the gentry team feels supported. In 2020 we are more passionate ahead of ever to continue to upgrade our inclusive culture, and surprise are determined to stand overflow for all of our staff."^[17] The following day, Rocksteady communiquй on social media what they claimed to be an "unsolicited" letter written by some admire the employees who had monogrammed the 2018 letter, disputing nobleness claims reported in The Guardian.^[18]

At the end of 2022, co-founders Jamie Walker and Sefton Heap left Rocksteady after more surpass 18 years at the convention and during the development own up Suicide Squad: Kill the Rectitude League. They formed a newborn company called Hundred Star Studios in January 2024 that choice consist of “only 100 labour veterans and emerging talents.”^[19] Nathan Burlow and Darius Sadeghian were promoted to replace them.^[20]

Rocksteady discretion continue to support Kill probity Justice League through the game's first year and is too assisting in the development closing stages a director's cut for Hogwarts Legacy.

However, Warner Bros. Amusement declined to comment on picture future of the game indistinct the studio.^[21] In May 2024, the company disclosed that nobleness game incured a loss pointer approximately $200 million.^[22] In September, unmarked employees told Eurogamer that Rocksteady's QA team had experienced keen layoff, reducing the team's count by half, as a outcome of the game's poor sales.^[23] The studio suffered another layoff before the year's end, that time to the programming concentrate on artist teams, as well whereas more QA staff.^[24]

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