Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, the third-person live-service shooter from Batman: Arkham developer Rocksteady Studios, debuted final month to combined opinions from each critics and followers alike. However, Rocksteady is seeking to pump one thing new into the sport with the discharge of Joker as a playable character.
Teased again in January as an Elseworlds model of the favored villain, this Joker, notably not the identical voiced by Mark Hamill within the Arkham video games, goes stay on March 28. Rocksteady revealed this launch date the identical day its mother or father firm, Warner Bros., introduced it’s doubling down on live-service and free-to-play video games.
Warner Bros. CEO of world streaming and video games JB Perrette defined at a Morgan Stanley convention, “We think the opportunity for us, which again, this is a multi-year [opportunity], because games is certainly a bit of a long cycle business too, but the opportunity is to take those four franchises [DC, Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, and Game of Thrones] and be able to develop a much more holistic approach, particularly around expanding into the mobile and multiplatform free-to-play space, which could give us a much better and consistent set of revenue, and you’ll see us launching this year some mobile free-to-play games, which we hope will start building that,” as reported by VideoGamesChronicle.
Perrette continued, “And then secondarily live services, so rather than just launching a kind of one-and-done console game, how do we develop a game around, for example, Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, that is a live service where people can come today and live and work and build and play in that world on an ongoing basis. And so, we think we’ve got the franchises, we’ve got some of the greatest studio capabilities, and we have a roadmap and a strategic investment plan to try and build out that business, and we think there’s meaningful growth over the course of the next couple of years.”
Perhaps confusingly, this initiative to double down on free-to-play and live-service video games arrives after Hogwarts Legacy – a standard single-player sport with a premium price ticket and 0 live-service components – was the best-selling sport of final 12 months, beating out The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, and different heavy hitters. This initiative additionally arrives after Warner Bros. itself mentioned Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League – a live-service sport like the sort the corporate desires to double down on – fell wanting expectations.
While ready for Joker to hit the sport, learn Game Informer’s Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League overview, after which learn Game Informer’s Hogwarts Legacy overview.
[Source: VideoGamesChronicle]
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