Sorry, Rocksteady fans, but the Suicide Squad devs were never making a Superman game

Despite repeated rumours over the years, Rocksteady was never making a Superman game, no matter how bad you think Suicide Squad looks.

The initial rumour came from Twitter user James Sigfield back in 2020, but speaking to Bloomberg in its report, he noted that he’d even admitted at the time he had been mistaken. “I corrected it in a later tweet, but it never caught on,” Sigfield said. “The person that gave me the info got the studios mixed up.” The mixup does make some amount of sense, Suicide Squad is set on Superman’s own Metropolis, and he does feature in the game, just as an enemy.

Bloomberg further clarified some points on the order of events for Rocksteady following Arkham Knight, explaining that a Suicide Squad game was in the works at a different Warner Bros. owned studio, but it was cancelled in 2016, before the property was given to Rocksteady, who started work on the project in 2017. Post Arkham Knight, Rocksteady started work on its Batman VR game and a previously unreported multiplayer game in an original franchise, though that obviously hasn’t seen the light of day, so who knows if it still exists.

Essentially, even if Warner Bros. did force live service elements onto Suicide Squad, it didn’t kill off a Superman game - though I guess Superman still might die, given the upcoming game’s subtitle.

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