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Remember Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League? Rocksteady’s live service looter shooter hasn’t been doing so good, peaking at a measly 193 concurrent players on Steam in the last 24 hours (per SteamDB). Nevertheless, the development team is preparing Episode 2 of Season of the Joker, which goes live next month.

It’s no secret that Warner Bros. and Rocksteady’s wasn’t the biggest hit of early 2024. Warner Bros. Discovery’s CEO David Zaslav considers it a disappointment that overshadowed WB’s first quarter.

The CEO and president of Warner Bros Discovery has singled out Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as the reason for underwhelming Q1 results for its entire Studios division.

After revealing that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League fell short of expectations, Warner Bros. Discovery announced a $200 million impact on revenue due to the game’s failure. The company suffered an impairment charge, with studio revenue dropping by 12 percent year over year to $2.8 billion, per its Q1 2024 results.

Sony recently added a free trial for one of the most controversial games of 2024 to PlayStation Plus Premium, meaning members of the service can give Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League a shot without having to spend a single extra penny. Though some may have preferred a more well-received game to be added instead, trials like these allow PlayStation Plus players to test out divisive games and make judgments for themselves on titles they may not have touched otherwise.

The next game in the Batman: Arkham franchise has been announced for VR.

NOTE: There are spoilers ahead for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and potentially for as-yet-unreleased post-launch content.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been one of the more poorly received games of the year so far, which, based on what publisher WB Games has said, has been reflected in the way it has performed commercially as well. The recent release of the game’s first post-launch season has done little to reignite interest, having provoked widespread backlash owing to a number of significant issues. Many would tell you that the writing has been on the wall for the game for a while now, and it seems that WB Games and Rocksteady Studios are beginning to make plans for the finish line as well.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is reportedly set to bring popular DC villain Deathstroke in its Season 4 update. If the leaks are true, the deadly assassin's arrival in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will mark his first appearance in the Arkhamverse since featuring in 2015's Batman Arkham Knight.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s first season, Season of the Joker, launched on March 29th and instantly received negative feedback from fans. Some criticisms include very little new story content, a grind to unlock The Joker (with an option to pay $10 for instant access), a boss fight with Brainiac based on the Green Lantern, and more. Even the new Incursions are substandard.

Season 1 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is live, bringing The Joker as the first new playable character. It also offers new Notorious and Infamy sets, cosmetics and weapons. Check out the motion comic-style trailer below, which outlines The Joker’s origins and how he ended up with a prosthetic leg.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s first post-launch season is kicking off imminently, bringing with it a new playable character in the form of The Joker, in addition to new weapons, gear, missions, adjustments to the existing content, and more. It will, of course, also go hand-in-hand with a new battle pass, full details for which have now been unveiled by developer Rocksteady Studios.

Along with new Incursion missions, loot and The Joker, Season 1 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is also making extensive changes to existing systems. It’s reducing the requirements for its introduction to the end game, like completing Elseworld Missions requiring a Finite Crisis Rank 5 instead of 10. Completing Killing Time will require Rank 10 instead of 20, while the Hardcore version requires Rank 15 instead of 30.

Rocksteady Studios has detailed the first episode of Season 1 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, launching on March 28th, in a new blog post. There’s also a new gameplay trailer available. Check it out below.

Gotham Knights developer WB Montreal is working on the upcoming Wonder Woman game.

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League finally launched last month, and it’s fair to say that it hasn’t got off to a great start. It was met with mixed reception (at best) from critics and audiences and has failed to attract a sizeable player base, with publisher WB Games recently saying that it had fallen short of commercial expectations.

No one could have predicted that Helldivers 2 would have taken off the way it did, and we’re continuing to see more evidence of just how well Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony’s co-op shooter has performed since its release last month. In the UK, for instance, it was the best-selling game for the month of February by quite some margin, as per data revealed by the GSD that includes both physical and digital sales (via GamesIndustry). 

Warner Bros. Discovery has again said that it sees the biggest growth opportunities in gaming in the free-to-play and live service spaces.

Warner Bros. Discovery gaming boss J.B. Perrette wants the company to move away from the «volatile» market of AAA games for consoles.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has officially been delayed, on Epic Game Store.

As several Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League players complained about the technical issues faced with Rocksteady Studios’ latest game, PlayStation is reportedly issuing refunds to some users. This decision from PlayStation comes over a month after the release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

The Epic Games Store version of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been delayed once again, right before the day it was set to be released.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's first season of post-launch content gets underway on 28th March, introducing The Joker as a new playable character. Additionally, the delayed Epic Games Store version of Suicide Squad is now scheduled to launch on 26th March.

Developer Rocksteady Studios has revealed that it will be kicking off Season 1 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League on March 28. As part of the game’s first bit of post-launch content, Joker will be joining Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

Rocksteady Studios has outlined several changes coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, particularly for its Mutators, in future patches. Unfortunately, players will have to keep waiting. In a new Developer Update, the developer confirmed there won’t be a patch next week.

Long before the Suicide Squad went on to try about killing the Justice League, it dug its own grave. The action-adventure shooter from Rocksteady was born with the burden of living up to the lofty standards set by the studio's beloved Batman: Arkham games. Then, it stepped on a rake when last year's gameplay reveal confirmed that the game would be an always-online, live service looter shooter — a departure from Rocksteady's repertoire of narrative-focussed single-player experiences. And when it finally came out in early access ahead of its February 2 release, the developers had to pull it offline due to a bug that led to full story completion just as players logged in to the game for the first time.

The concurrent player count for the Steam version of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped so much since launch that it’s now frequently lower than that of Gotham Knights.

A massive update for the Nintendo Switch port of Batman: Arkham Knight has just been dropped, but players have reported that the game still has many issues. Much like the original Windows release, the Switch port of Rocksteady Studios' beloved action-adventure experience suffers from numerous technical problems.

Wiedenfels made the statement during a financial call to investors.

Rocksteady Studios has confirmed that it's working on solutions forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's newest bugs, which have created significant frustration among fans. The new announcement comes after Warner Bros. made a disappointing reveal regarding Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

released to mostly moderate to negative reviews, and according to Warner Bros. Discovery, the divisive game has not performed well.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has “fallen short” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s expectations.

While Warner Bros. Games saw a successful start to 2023 with Hogwarts Legacy, 2024 is a different story. Rocksteady Studios’ long-awaited Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is confirmed to have “fallen short” of expectations.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has failed to meet publisher Warner Bros' expectations.

A recent patch for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has caused more issues than it fixed, fans say.

Along with assuring players that future patches would fix server and login issues for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, game director Axel Rydby also revealed other upcoming changes. First is a buff to Promethium earned from Raising Hell.

Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League received a patch last week to nerf burning damage and how it scales into the end-game. However, server and login issues persist even after all these weeks. Game director Axel Rydby revealed in the recent Weekly Developer Update that its next patch will address the same, though “we might not be able to fix all those issues right away.”

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has already had bug fixes and a balancing patch, which is good news for players able to hop into the live service hero-biffer. It's less good news for those players struggling to play at all due to login issues and server issues.

The newly released Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is continuing to lose players on Steam, with player counts dipping every day since the game's launch. The newest shooter from Rocksteady Studios in the Batman: Arkham universe shifts players to an anti-hero role, taking control of villains like Harley Quinn and King Shark to battle a mind-controlled Justice League. Reception to the game has largely been mixed since its launch, with many criticizing its lackluster gameplay. Now, even more fans are stepping away from the new DC shooter.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has confirmed that addressing its login and server issues remain the team's «top priority», but warned that it may «not be able to fix all those issues right away».

There was a moment in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League where I set down my controller, wiped the tears from my eyes, looked at my TV and said aloud, “How. Dare. You.”  I got up, took the dog outside, grabbed something to drink, and whatever else I could think to waste a little time.  I just needed a moment.  I couldn’t believe that a game about otherwise expendable prisoners being coerced into para-military service to save the world could make me both laugh and tear up during the same 15-hour campaign.  

Rocksteady Studios has released a new patch for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and as promised, it fixes a bug with Diablo Blaze’s burn damage scaling. Instead of scaling with enemy debuffs and player damage buffs, it only scales with the former.

Rocksteady has released a major update for the third-person action shooter Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League that resolves an exploit tied to experience points that some players had used and introduces various gameplay tweaks. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has garnered significant attention for allowing players to take control of four infamous villains from the DC universe, namely Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark in a unique single-player and cooperative multiplayer experience.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is getting a new leaderboard thanks to a «major unintended bug» which caused the Burn status to scale incorrectly.

Rocksteady Studios is prepping its first nerf for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, targeting the Diablo Blaze Affliction. The burn status proved very popular for players due to a bug allowing for extensive scaling, especially when playing challenging content at higher Mastery Tiers. While it’s in line with the power fantasy the team has envisioned, it’s far and away the best end-game build, as seen in the leaderboards.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League .

A Batmam Arkham fan has riled up the fanbase with something the fans didn’t even know they wanted.

A series of Easter eggs point to us seeing more of Batman in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, presumably as part of a forthcoming post-launch update.

Much hay is made of the concepting of Batman villains, especially from 60s TV series ft. Adam West. It's done within canon, even! The Condiment King was created for the 90s animated series as a play on those kinds of whimisical, pun-focused villains. He shoots sauce and says things like "You just don't cut the mustard, Batman!". Maybe when you have to put out at least one issue a month, you throw a lot of villain spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks, and once something does you then go about making "guy who has a thing for the calendar" more of a rounded character - a sinister dude with a weird backstory. Or you make him the world's greatest wife guy.

Imagine a world where your worst nightmares have come true.  The apocalypse has come, and people all around are dying or disappearing.  Now imagine that the peacekeepers and freedom fighters are the source of all the chaos. In a world gone mad, almost all the people you are accustomed to relying on for help have gone rogue.  Such is the premise of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. 

When you make the greatest trilogy of superhero games ever, the wait for your next game is going to be excruciating for fans.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is literally starting off on the wrong foot.

WB Games seems to have hit the proverbial nail in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’s coffin.

Rocksteady and Warner's much-disparaged live service superhero snuff fantasy Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League goes into Deluxe-preorder-only early access today, Monday 29th January, at 9pm, or if you're from the UK or US east coast, Tuesday 30th January at 12am ET and 12 GMT. Non-Deluxe peons get to play it from Friday 2nd February. With just a handful of hours till the initial release we still don't have review code, which is generally a good sign that a publisher thinks the game in question is going to get a mild-to-severe kicking.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has caught a lot of flak for being a live service game already, but developer Rocksteady Studios has nonetheless made plenty of promises about consistent post-launch support over the months following the game’s release. Of course, like any live service game, each season of content will also bring a new battle pass for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and in a recent Q&A over on the game’s official Discord channel (via MP1st), studio director Darius Sadeghian recently revealed new details on what to expect from the game on that front.

With Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League just days away from release, details on the game are continuing to flood in, with developer Rocksteady Studios recently also having unveiled its plans for the Bane-themed Season 0, Season 1 (which will add the Joker, among other things), how the game’s battle passes will work, what future post-launch support will look like, and more.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is out in a few days’ time, and earlier still if it’s its early access release you’re looking at, and right on the onset of the game’s release, its full list of Trophies has seemingly leaked, courtesy of a user on Reddit.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is just days away from launch, and usually around this time is when you’d be expecting reviews and impressions from critics- though it seems that’s not going to be the case with Rocksteady Studios’ upcoming open world looter shooter.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has been inching its way closer to the finish line. The game drops next week, and Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros. Games have continued to market this title for its upcoming release. One of the latest trailers to have been released is a live-action piece. You’ll get to see individuals like Will Arnett and Ron Funches as they take down the Justice League. 

With just a week away from releasing, a new live-action trailer for the game is out, teasing some hilarious chaos featuring a few famous faces.

As with many major video game launches these days, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has received a live-action trailer. It stars actors Will Arnett and Ron Funches alongside director Jodi Hill as they play the Suicide Squad and act as the “good guys.” Sort of. Check it out below.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is finally out next week after a lengthy delay from last year. Deluxe Edition players will receive early access, and in some new tweets, Rocksteady confirmed it would be available on January 29th, 9 PM PT (or January 30th at your local midnight time) on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. On Steam, it goes live on January 30th, 10 AM PT.

Officially, Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League comes out on February 2nd, the same day that another big title arrives from Atlus. But a few days before, on January 30th, a special “early access” period will start for certain gamers to get into the title beforehand. These dates would excite players if they were hyped for the title. But, currently, the hype for the next game by Rocksteady Studios is “mixed” at best. An easy counter to this “mixed hype” would be to see how the reviews turn out and if critics can sway some of them to the developers’ side. Yet, if reports are to be believed, there’s a problem on that end.

Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launches on February 2nd for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC. However, those who purchase the Deluxe Edition for $99.99 can start on January 30th. There are other goodies, like bonus outfits and weapons – check out the trailer below to see them in action.

With a little more than a week left before the launch of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the next four playable characters have potentially leaked. According to the rumor, the next four playable characters will all be released in the first year post-launch, and they are Joker, Mrs. Freeze, Lawless, and Deathstroke. In all fairness, it has already been confirmed that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is adding the Joker, but the leaker's initial post dates back to last year – long before the Clown Prince's in-game reveal.

Developer Rocksteady have detailed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's initial post-launch plans, confirming The Joker will arrive as a playable character in a free content update accompanying the game's first «season».

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is arriving in the marketplace next month, so quite a few fans eagerly await to check this game out. With that said, this game made some fans skeptical about its release. It’s a live service title that typically means battle passes and additional content locked behind paywalls. But in a new post and a behind-the-scenes video, it looks like this game will feature plenty of content ready for players to enjoy for free. Included is the addition of the Joker. 

Rocksteady has detailed its plans for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s free post-launch seasonal content.

After its end-game showcase showing how Incursion Missions work in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Rocksteady finally explained the story behind them in Insider episode 3. It also confirmed that Season 1 would launch in March and include The Joker as a new playable character.

Rocksteady Studios has confirmed that The Joker will be playable in Season 1 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, launching in March. It promised new characters, challenges, environments and more, but we now have a roadmap that outlines what to expect.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Insider episode 3 is out and offers a look at what players can expect after finishing the campaign. There are leaderboards to compete on, with solo, duo and four-player squads having separate rankings. Beating someone’s score even allows for a Rival Taunt, which sees one of the Suicide Squad taunting them in “creative” ways when they log in.

With the release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League fast approaching, Rocksteady has dropped a new gameplay launch trailer for the game.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Rocksteady’s multiplayer Destiny-like with DC villains, will fill the conspicuously Joker-shaped hole in its rogues’ gallery of Batman baddies in March with the launch of the live service game’s first season of free post-launch content.

As reported by insider Miller Ross, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will launch with Season 0. In a new showcase for the end-game, Rocksteady talked about how Bane, Batman’s nemesis, is the theme. Perhaps the best part is that players can choose a season, even if it’s over, and get items from it.

Rocksteady invited streamers like Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo to try out Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s end-game recently, outlining how Incursion Missions, Mastery Tiers and Mutators work. Incursion Missions involve venturing to Elseworlds, essentially parallel universes, and completing missions.

Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League recently received extensive gameplay showcasing the end-game with streamers like DrLupo. There’s much to cover, like Incursion Missions, Elseworlds, Mutators and what to expect in Season 0. However, perhaps the best discovery from the stream is that players can tailor the UI to their liking.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League being a live service looter shooter may have drawn criticism from plenty of people, but the prospect of Rocksteady developing a game based on the IP is still an intriguing one, especially given the spectacular job the studio did with Batman in its Arkham trilogy. Whether or not the developer is able to replicate that with Suicide Squad remains to be seen, but one particular newly-emerged detail will likely put a smile on your face if you’re a fan of the IP.

In the lead-up to the imminent launch of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, WB Games and developer Rocksteady Studios have ramped up marketing for the open world looter shooter, and of course, there’s more of that to come. Rocksteady recently confirmed that the next episode of its behind-the-scenes Insider series would be dropping soon, and date for it has now been announced.

One of the hardest things for gamers to see is a studio that was once on “top of the world” slowly falling apart and becoming a shell of its former self. We’re seeing this happening all over the place nowadays, with companies failing to capitalize on what’s important within the industry, layoffs happening due to “poor sales,” or even “overinvestments,” and so on. But the biggest one that has affected many studios is that they haven’t been able to make quality games like they used to, and Rocksteady Studios is the newest one to do that, which is where our story starts.