Suicide Squad Devs Never Had A Superman Game In The Works, Says Insider

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is just a few weeks out from release, but Arkham fans have had little in the way to get excited about. Previews of the game have been dire, and it's constantly being roasted on social media for its UI and changes to certain major characters. It's caused somewhat of a resurgence of an old rumor that Rocksteady once had a Superman game in the works that was scrapped in favor of Suicide Squad, but a new report has finally debunked them.

According to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, the idea that Warner Bros. rejected a pitch for a standalone Superman game from Rocksteady is completely false, yet the rumor has circulated on social media and been spread by high-profile content creators for years. In actuality, Schreier's sources claim that work on a Batman VR game and an unannounced multiplayer game based on an original IP immediately started after the release of Batman: Arkham Knight.

Rocksteady's pivot to a multiplayer Suicide Squad apparently came when Warner Bros. handed the property to the studio in 2017, following the internal cancelation of a different Suicide Squad game being made by a Warner Bros. team in Montreal. The studio has been working on nothing else but Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League since then, meaning the game will have been in development for close to seven years.

Schreier claims that the original rumor that Rocksteady had a Superman game pitch rejected came from Twitter user James Sigfield, who clarified to Schreier in a private conversation that they later corrected themselves after their sources "got the studios mixed up", but nobody noticed the correction. That rumor subsequently spread like wildfire and eventually became seemingly common knowledge