A new report claims Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have signed a deal with Xbox to fund their new studio’s next big AAA action game. Rocksteady is most famous for its Batman: Arkham trilogy , featuring fluid combat, large open maps, and popular villains like Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze, and the Joker.
After releasing Arkham Knight in 2015, the studio shifted gears and developed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League , an online-only third-person looter shooter staring villains set in the same DC universe as Rocksteady’s Arkham franchise. But in 2022, before that game launched to meh reviews earlier this year, Rocksteady’s co-founders, Hill and Walker, left the studio to form a new company that is now reportedly working on a game for Microsoft. According to a new report by eXputer , Hundred Star—the studio created by Rocksteady’s co-founders in 2023—has signed a deal with Xbox Game Studios to develop a “AAA-standard, single-player, action-adventure game” built in Unreal 5.
Kotaku has reached out to Xbox and Hundred Star Games about the report. Not much is known about the project yet, likely because it’s still extremely early days for the game. At this point, it’s still years and years away from launch.
eXputer says the deal with Xbox has been signed, and approved, with Hundred Star now receiving funding to develop the AAA action game. It might be an Xbox and PC exclusive, likely to launch on Game Pass, but considering how uncertain all of .
