It’s been reported that Rocksteady has laid off over half of its QA department as a part of the studio’s restructuring.
The report comes from Eurogamer, which understands that the QA department has been reduced from 33 to just 15. The company cites its “restructuring” as the reason for letting people go.
According to the outlet, those affected go beyond just QA staff, too, with some now former employees reporting on social media that they’ve been let go. Lead Recruiter at Rocksteady, Alexandar Bell, took to LinkedIn to say, “I suspect I’ve just joined a very exclusive cohort of people who’ve been told their role is being eliminated whilst on a paternity leave.”
In August 2024, Warner Bros. reported a 41% decline in gaming revenue year over year and a $200 million loss on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
At the time of writing, In 2024, over 11,700 people have been impacted by layoffs in the gaming industry across at least 130 companies.
Rocksteady and Warner Bros. are yet to comment officially on the latest layoffs.
For more from Insider Gaming, check out the latest layoffs from Ballistic Moon, the developers behind Until Dawn Remake.
Just shut them and NRS down neither can deliver a game to turn things around this gen or even early next generation. Just license out the IP and we may actually get a good game possibly this gen depending on the studio.
Just license out games already so we hopefully get some good DC games this gen since we won’t get any from WB Games they can’t make good games and they cant deliver fast enough meanwhile Japanese and Chinese teams are delivering much quicker and higher quality also the Eastern Europeans too. Close down all these studios and finally hand out the DC license for games PlayStation, Rockstar, Capcom, Bandai Namco, From Software, CD Projekt, just throw it around.
Sell WB Games to Tencent already they can fix this.