Suicide Squad Dev Rocksteady Suffers More Layoffs | Push Square
It's been revealed that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady — previously of Batman: Arkham fame — was hit with another round of layoffs just before the end of 2024.
The news comes via Eurogamer, who spoke to «half a dozen» anonymous staff affected by these most recent redundancies.
As was the case back in September of last year, when Rocksteady shed over half of its QA team, these latest layoffs had not been made public. It's understood that members of the studio's programming and art teams have been let go, along with more people from the aforementioned QA division.
2024 was obviously a dismal year for the larger industry in terms of layoffs. And in Rocksteady's case, bad news always seemed inevitable given Suicide Squad's abundant struggles. This was an expensive project, and it fell significantly short of projections.
Rocksteady's QA team cut in half
Super villainy
But as always, it's just a huge shame to see people losing their jobs over poorly-judged endeavours. We can only hope that 2025 ends up being a more positive year for developers everywhere.
Robert (or Rob if you're lazy) is an assistant editor of Push Square, and has been a fan of PlayStation since the 90s, when Tekken 2 introduced him to the incredible world of video games. He still takes his fighting games seriously, but RPGs are his true passion. The Witcher, Persona, Dragon Quest, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Trails, Tales — he's played 'em all. A little too much, some might say.
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A single player Suicide Squad game from them could have been good.
It's just sad to see people lose their jobs over things outside of their control. By most accounts the game is technically very good. Perhaps the people who decided to make it a GaaS mess should quit in solidarity.
When I was younger, I would have loved to have found work in the video game industry. These days I'm glad I didn't.
I tried suicide squad for the first time last night and
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