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Suicide Squad is reportedly delayed, Resident Evil 4 Remake's demo is out now, and Collector's Editions for the game have been cancelled.
By Tom Caswell on
And just like that, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League gets delayed yet again.
Warner Bros. Games scored a hit with Hogwarts Legacy, and the studio was set to launch another game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, in May, but it appears those plans have changed. Bloomberg reports that the game is now delayed beyond its previously announced May 26 release date. A new date was not published in the report, and Warner Bros. itself has not confirmed the delay.
Reporter Jason Schreier said the delay is «mainly for polish.” After the State of Play, many online were unhappy to learn of the game's live-service approach. But Schreier said the game began as a games-as-a-service title and will launch under that business model and setup.The game was originally slated for release in 2022 before getting pushed to 2023.
This reads to me that a delay, even if the response to the game’s recent showcase was overwhelmingly positive, was always in the cards for Suicide Squad. However, no amount of polish will improve the elements of the game that caused the negative response, which are core to the title’s entire experience. To address and change those, well, it’d need to be a whole different game, and Rocksteady has already spent eight years making this one.
In a couple short years' time, it’ll be the tenth anniversary of the developer’s last game Arkham Knight, which itself
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