Rocksteady is reportedly engaged on a brand new, single-player Batman recreation as Warner Bros. Video games appears to be like to concentrate on its core franchises.
Talking in a monetary name, Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav addressed the troubled 12 months the corporate has confronted with the poor efficiency of titles comparable to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and the Tremendous Smash Bros.-style brawler MultiVersus.
“We recognise [the games business] is considerably underperforming its potential proper now.” mentioned Zaslav, earlier than including that Warner Bros. will now be doubling down on simply 4 video games: Hogwarts Legacy (a sequel is already within the works), Mortal Kombat, Recreation of Thrones, and DC, “specifically Batman.”
“We’re focusing our improvement efforts on these core franchises, with confirmed studios to enhance our success ratio,” Zaslav added.
The Discovery President and CEO confirmed that Rocksteady is “trying to return to Batman for a single-player recreation,” however based on a report from Bloomberg, any such title will likely be years away because of the troubled improvement of different video games.
Monolith Productions’ Marvel Girl recreation is alleged to be in hassle after reportedly rebooting and switching administrators early final yr. It’s already value greater than $100million and remains to be years away from launch, Bloomberg added.
In the meantime, Gotham Knights developer WB Video games Montreal pitched a John Constantine recreation but it surely was by no means authorized. A Flash recreation was additionally scrapped after the DCU Flash movie underperformed on the field workplace. The developer is now serving to out with different titles and is reportedly engaged on a pitch for a brand new Recreation of Thrones recreation.
Reviews of a brand new Batman recreation emerged in September 2024, when XboxEra co-founder Nick Baker said in an X/Twitter submit that Rocksteady could be returning to make it.
“Undecided which studio individuals’s dream is, however I heard Rocksteady are again making it. I additionally suppose Sony try to moneyhat it lol,” he wrote in response to The Recreation Awards account asking individuals to call their dream developer for a brand new Batman recreation.
Rocksteady is the studio behind the critically-acclaimed and fan-loved Batman Arkham sequence of video games, which noticed gamers step into the footwear of the caped crusader and save Gotham from varied villains.
