Report: Rocksteady working on single-player Batman, as Wonder Woman game rebooted

A Bloomberg report on the state of Warner Bros. Video games has claimed that Rocksteady is again to engaged on a single-player Batman recreation, whereas the Marvel Lady recreation in improvement at Monolith was rebooted final 12 months after a change of administrators.

The report seems into Warner Bros. Video games following the departure of CEO David Haddad at the end of January, with the video games division having to writedown $300 million by 2024.

If there’s a silver lining for any players to Warner having a horrible 12 months, it’s that Rocksteady is reportedly again to engaged on single-player video games and on Batman particularly.

“Rocksteady is seeking to return to Batman for a single-player recreation, however in accordance with folks acquainted with the timeline, the brand new mission is years away from touchdown,” Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier writes.

On Marvel Lady, Schreier mentioned, “One of many firm’s largest bets in improvement, a online game primarily based on Marvel Lady, has struggled to coalesce, in accordance with folks acquainted with the mission. Early final 12 months, it was rebooted and switched administrators. The sport has already value greater than $100 million, mentioned the individuals who requested to not be recognized discussing nonpublic data, and remains to be years away from launch, if it ever makes it to market.”

This might be a serious disappointment from a well-regarded staff. Monolith developed Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, pioneering the Nemesis system by the open world adventures. Shadow of Battle launched in 2017, however it wasn’t till December 2021 that the Wonder Woman game was announced, and with if the mission has been rebooted, wiping out years of progress, it may conceivably nonetheless be nearly a decade between their video games.

All in all, it’s seeking to be a lean few years for Warner Bros. Video games, following on from a disastrous 2024 that noticed the flopped launches of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and the soon-to-be-shut-down MultiVersus – an enormous fall off from the heights of 2023 with Hogwarts Legacy main the best way and Mortal Kombat 1.

With most of its foremost studios having launched a recreation throughout the final couple years, having Marvel Lady’s improvement being rebooted would imply the slate is just about clear for whereas. A brand new Lego recreation from TT Video games, a Hogwarts Legacy sequel from Avalanche, and a brand new preventing recreation from NetherRealm are all more likely to be a couple of years away as nicely.

A troublesome time, however hopefully WB can climate the sluggish years forward.