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Friday28th Feb 2025
News Suicide Squad Bombed So Bad, It Basically Took Wonder Woman and Monolith Down with It
MultiVersus didn't help, either
Last year's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a flop of colossal proportions for publisher Warner Bros. Interactive — but we're only just now seeing the extent of the damage that its significant commercial shortcomings caused. Earlier this week, news broke that Warner Bros. had effectively taken a...
Tuesday14th Jan 2025
News The Final Suicide Squad PS5 Ending Is a Real Sorry Sight
Rocksteady retcons itself
The Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League disaster has finally come to an end for Rocksteady Studios, as its last main season of content deploys onto PS5, accessible for free for PS Plus Essential members. However, as it says goodbye to the title, it's got one final trick up its sleeve: a big story retcon. We doubt most of...
Wednesday8th Jan 2025
News Suicide Squad Dev Rocksteady Suffers More Layoffs as PS5 Game Hits PS Plus
Anything but steady
It's been revealed that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady — previously of Batman: Arkham fame — was hit with another round of layoffs just before the end of 2024. The news comes via Eurogamer, who spoke to "half a dozen" anonymous staff affected by these most recent redundancies. As was the case...
Tuesday17th Dec 2024
News Suicide Squad Season 4, Deathstroke Fail to Move the Needle Much
It ends, not with a boomerang, but a whisper
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League support is, mercifully, ending with the completion of Season 4 in January 2025. We had held out some hope that the release of the playable character Deathstroke, who seemed like the coolest of the additional baddies, might draw an influx of players. Alas, it seems...
Monday9th Dec 2024
News Suicide Squad Season 4 Will Be Its Last, Offline Mode Coming Tomorrow
Online servers remain live
Batman: Arkham studio Rocksteady will finally be free of its Suicide Squad torture next month as it has been confirmed Season 4, launching in January 2025, is the game's final content drop. The online servers shall remain live and all of the post-launch content stays along with the base experience, but no new episodes will...
News Deathstroke Completes Suicide Squad's PS5 Content Roadmap
End of the line
Inexplicably, $200 million flop, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's servers are still live. Season 4 arrives tomorrow, 10th December, bringing the anticipated introduction of Deathstroke to the game's rogues gallery of playable characters. We have to imagine that the edgy assassin will prove more of a draw than Season 3's...
Thursday3rd Oct 2024
News Crickets as Suicide Squad Endures Another Muted Launch
What's the plan, Mistah J?
While very different games, Concord recently launched to a dismal response from players, and Sony pulled the plug after just two weeks. With the onset of Suicide Squad's Season 3 of live service content, nearly nine months out from launch, Warner Bros must be looking at the player count that kill
Thursday8th Aug 2024
News Suicide Squad the Villain Behind Warner Bros Gaming Revenue Drop
But Hogwarts Legacy is a tough act to follow
Warner Bros. Discovery has reported its Q2 2024 earnings, and in fairly unsurprising news, a lot of fingers are being pointed at Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The villainous service game is largely taking the wrap for a precipitous 41% year-over-year revenue drop experienced by the WB Games...
Wednesday10th Jul 2024
News Suicide Squad Season 2 Frozen Days From Launch, Defrosting 25th July
You are not sending me back to the cooler!
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Season 2 has been delayed mere days before the content was scheduled to go live. Rocksteady has posted the new launch date as 25th July, so players must wait a little longer to chill out with the incoming playable character, Mrs. Freeze. On X, the game's official...
Thursday4th Jul 2024
News Remain Chill, Playable Mrs. Freeze Will Soon Join Suicide Squad's Rogues' Gallery
Cool party!
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Season 2 roadmap has been revealed, and it includes a playable character who deserves her due. Nora Fries, better known as Mrs. Freeze, has been confirmed to be coming to the game, no doubt with some scores to settle, and will join the festivities alongside all kinds of cosmetic goodies from 11th...
Friday7th Jun 2024
News Genre Pivot, 'Toxic Positivity' Blamed for Suicide Squad's $200 Million Flop
Super villainy
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is currently the front-runner for the dubious honour of being the biggest gaming flop of 2024, costing publisher Warner Bros an eye-watering loss of $200 million. But how did it all go wrong? Apparently, a culture of "toxic positivity", an ill-advised genre switch, perfectionism, and a constantly...
Thursday9th May 2024
News Warner Bros Revenue Plummets as Suicide Squad Falls Completely Short of Hogwarts Legacy
Q1 revenue falls off a cliff
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was meant to be a smash hit for Warner Bros. The latest game from lauded Batman Arkham studio Rocksteady, it was in development for close to a decade, finally releasing a few months back, in February. But it goes without saying that things haven't gone to plan. Relative to the...
Monday8th Apr 2024
News Suicide Squad Woes Continue As Hackers Make Free with Unreleased Character, Skins
Holding out for a hero
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League already looked to be in an impossible situation, with dismal player numbers for a AAA title game of this scale and an increasingly disaffected player base as times move on. Now, developer Rocksteady and publisher Warner Bros have an entirely fresh headache to contend with. Hackers have...
Friday29th Mar 2024
News Joker's Free Suicide Squad DLC Now Available on PS5
"Here comes the goon squad!"
Things have been quiet on the Suicide Squad front since the game was released in February. Publisher Warner Bros was disappointed by the game's poor sales but doubled down on making its live service dream a reality. A free DLC update is now available, adding The Cro
Tuesday5th Mar 2024
News Warner Bros' Reaction to Suicide Squad Flop Will Make You Question Your Sanity
More live service games needed
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League did not meet publisher Warner Bros' expectations — that much is abundantly clear. The live service shooter appeared to do okay at launch, but concerningly low player counts and an almost immediate, sharp decline in sales set the tone. Warner Bros piped up not long after, stating...
Friday23rd Feb 2024
News Poor Suicide Squad Sales Disappoint Publisher Warner Bros
Sales fell "short of our expectations"
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League publisher Warner Bros has said the game's sales up until now have "fallen short" of its expectations, which leaves the company facing a "tough year" when compared to years past. The comments were made during a financial call, where chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels...
Thursday8th Feb 2024
News Suicide Squad Antagonist Brainiac Seemingly Leaks Future Playable Character
No chill
The identity of another playable villain coming to the villain-centric Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has seemingly been leaked, not by an account chasing clout on Twitter, but by DC's resident brain maniac himself. A bugged line spouted by the Justice League's most enduring antagonist, Brainiac, indicates that a particularly cool...
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News Fans Outraged at Rocksteady's Handling of Hero Deaths in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Did you think they'd all become friends?
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is out now in Early Access form, and despite needing to go offline twice so far and a lot of pre-release gloom and doom, it seems like a decent enough game. But, despite literally being called Kill the Justice League (with associated Trophies fo
Monday29th Jan 2024
News Suicide Squad Already Taken Offline as Glitch Completes the Game for Early Access Players
Servers down for "several hours" now
Less than one hour into Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's public availability via the Deluxe Edition, the game has been taken offline because a bug is auto-completing the entire game for select players. The PS5 title is now up for sale in New Zealand, but closing the servers for maintenance means it'll be...
News Suicide Squad's Live-Service Content Isn't Designed to Take Over Your Life
It's not another "life commitment"
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be supported for multiple seasons after the PS5 game comes out at the end of this week, but rather than designing it like a Destiny 2, developer Rocksteady has assured this is not a game that will dominate all your free time. Instead, part of the title's philosophy is to...
News Yes, Suicide Squad's PS5 Platinum Will Require You to Kill the Justice League
In case you had any lingering doubts
Put any sentimentality aside: Rocksteady really will insist you kill the Justice League if you want to unlock Suicide Squad’s seemingly accessible PS5 Platinum Trophy. Obviously, it’s the subheadline of the game so there are few surprises here, but you’ll earn gongs for offing the likes of Batman, Superman,...
Monday22nd Jan 2024
News Suicide Squad Episodes, Characters, and Locations Coming After Launch
Play as Joker in season one
Rocksteady has today revealed the sort of content you can expect from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League after its launch, with at least four seasons planned that'll introduce new playable characters, stories, and locations for free. You can hear about it from the studio in the video above, where the game is described...
Tuesday16th Jan 2024
News Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Gameplay Launch Trailer Teases Big Superhero Battles
Out very soon
We're just a couple of weeks away from the arrival of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, but Warner Bros. has seen fit to release the launch trailer early. You can watch it above. This newest trailer splices together proper gameplay footage with plenty of cutscenes from the story, and it honestly looks pretty fun. The game sees...
News Before Suicide Squad, Rocksteady Was Reportedly Developing an Original Multiplayer Game
One that did not involve Superman
Before seemingly becoming embroiled in a multi-year Suicide Squad quagmire, developer Rocksteady Studio was reportedly working on an original multiplayer game, one in an entirely new setting. That's according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who wrote about the game's tumultuous journey and the uphill battle it faces...
Monday15th Jan 2024
News Suicide Squad Teases Major Post-Launch Support, 'Hundreds' of Build Combinations
One step at a time
Following an uninspiring round of preview coverage for the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, developer Rocksteady Studio has potentially put the cart before the horse, teasing major post-launch support for the game ahead of launch. Game director Axel Rydby posted additional information on the game's dedicated...
Friday12th Jan 2024
News Rocksteady Lifts Suicide Squad Alpha NDA in Apparent Bid to Counter Damning Previews
Suicide mission?
Final previews for Rocksteady's upcoming action game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice, were muted at best, with the knives coming out at many mainstream outlets. This frosty reception has seemingly blunted the game's marketing momentum, and the powers at Warner Bros. have made the unorthodox, seemingly unprecedented decision to...
Tuesday9th Jan 2024
News Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Previews Are Far from Positive
Kill streak
People have been casting a cynical eye over Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League for a while now, ever since it was revealed to be a live service title. Rocksteady, the near legendary developer behind the Batman: Arkham games, has been working on this thing for what feels like way too long, and based on a number of fresh previews from...
Tuesday19th Dec 2023
News Major Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Spoilers Break Containment
No survivors
Rocksteady Studios desperately needs a hero, or a team of them, as significant spoilers for the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League run rampant everywhere gamers gather. The audacious person or persons responsible leaked the critical data following recently-held closed alpha testing, which is obviously not ideal. Video and...
Friday15th Dec 2023
News Pre-Order Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League on PS5 for Exclusive Rogue Outfits
Dressed to kill
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League embark on their murderous mission on 2nd February on PS5, and players pre-ordering the game digitally will get access to some killer new looks.The Rogue Outfits pack features new fits for each member of the Squad. King Shark gets a laid-back look with a tropical necklace made from .50 BMG...
Friday8th Dec 2023
News Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Spotlights Its Brainwashed Heroes in Latest Trailer
Just us is coming
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been written off by many players, but it's looking pretty good in this latest trailer. That the game has live service elements has left a bad taste in the mouths of fans, but WB Games and Rocksteady have leaned into the action shooter's story here, and it looks like there's still some...
