Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker depart
Rocksteady Studios will soon lose its co-founders and studio heads, Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill. According to an announcement from WB Games president David Haddad, both men are leaving the company in 2023.
"We are very proud to have worked alongside Jamie and Sefton, who have led their talented teams to create some of the best games in the world," wrote Haddad. "With Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League nearly finished, they have both decided to leave Rocksteady at the end of 2022 and will begin a new adventure in gaming."
Based in London and founded in 2004, Rocksteady came into fame with the Batman: Arkham franchise. Hill served as the creative director of Suicide Squad and each mainline Arkham game, along with the Batman: Arkham VR spinoff.
"From the day we founded the company in 2004 all the way to today, Rocksteady has been our life and soul," wrote Walker and Hill in a joint statement. "We are so proud of the team here for the games we have all made together, from our first game Urban Chaos, to the much-loved Arkham series, and now the epic Suicide Squad."
Taking over as studio director will be Nathan Burlow, previously Rocksteady's production member and one of its first employees. Darius Sadeghian, who joined the developer in 2015, will serve as studio product director.
During Walker and Hill's time at Rocksteady, allegations of misconduct were leveled against the developer.
The allegations (originally from 2018, but revealed in 2020) saw 10 of the staff's 16 total women write a letter accusing management of failing to take seriously complaints of transphobia and various kinds of sexual harassment from male coworkers. Several of the women who wrote that letter have since left the developer.
At the time,
Read more on gamedeveloper.com
