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[Exclusive] Xbox Reaches Agreement With Batman: Arkham Trilogy Creators For A New AAA Game

Ex-Rocksteady directors-founded studio Hundred Star is collaborating with Xbox Game Studios Publishing for its first-ever AAA game.

exputer.com

Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker banded together to form a new AAA games-making studio in 2023 called Hundred Star, which is headquartered in London. Today, eXputer has learned that the developer is working on its first project: A AAA-standard, single-player, action-adventure game built in Unreal Engine 5.

 

[Astray]

Nice! Really looking forward to what they do.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Back than this would have been News worthy but after Suicide Squad I have doubts this new project is gonna to be good

Edit- Nevermind just finished reading the article. I thought it was Rocksteady and didn't know it was Ex employees of them

 

[Dacvak]

 

[HL3.exe]

'A AAA-standard..' got me spooked for a bit

 

[YCoCg]

Back than this would have been News worthy but after Suicide Squad I have doubts this new project is gonna to be good

This is the new studio from the guys who left before and during Suicide Squad.

 

[wvnative]

Back than this would have been News worthy but after Suicide Squad I have doubts this new project is gonna to be good

This is a new studio formed by ex-rocksteady heads who clearly weren't happy with the way SS was going.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

This is the new studio from the guys who left before and during Suicide Squad.

Yeah I just read the article and edited my post

My bad

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Title is misleading

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Good move. Reveal in 2029 and release in 2031.

Can’t wait?

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

New Studio founded by industry vets

First project is a AAA

Based in one of the most expensive cities

Sounds like another recipe for success

 

[AV]

See you in the 2030s I guess

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Playstation 6 launch game?

 

[RiccochetJ]

The pedigree is there and the fact that the founders have 20 people who followed them from Rocksteady bodes well. Just hope it's not a 7 year development cycle before we see anything.

 

[YCoCg]

New Studio founded by industry vets

First project is a AAA

Based in one of the most expensive cities

Sounds like another recipe for success

Don't worry, the UK has plenty of tax incentives to help out game studios ANNNNDD Rockstar Games have claimed it all.

 

[mayham2199]

Not to interested if I'm honest. I just never enjoyed anything after Asylum. I thought that was one of the best games I've ever played but something about the games after it just never grabbed the same way.

 

[digital_ghost]

The pedigree is there and the fact that the founders have 20 people who followed them from Rocksteady bodes well. Just hope it's not a 7 year development cycle before we see anything.

PS9 launch title.

Babies born now will be able to play it on their ps9s in 20 years on launch day.

 

[Perrott]

This is a new studio formed by ex-rocksteady heads who clearly weren't happy with the way SS was going.

The way Suicide Squad was going? Sefton Hill & co. left Rocksteady when the game was actually near-completion and months before it's planned May 2023 launch. The game we got was made in its entirety under their direction.

Which is not to say that they as creatives don't have the talent to redeem themselves with this upcoming project now that they're outside of the WB umbrella.

 

[spons]

AAA-standard, single-player, action-adventure game built in Unreal Engine 5

 

[Topher]

AAA-standard, single-player, action-adventure game

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

New Studio founded by industry vets

First project is a AAA

Based in one of the most expensive cities

Sounds like another recipe for success

Do u think they have INITIATIVE?

 

[wvnative]

The way Suicide Squad was going? Sefton Hill & co. left Rocksteady when the game was actually near-completion and months before it's planned May 2023 launch. The game we got was made in its entirety under their direction.

Which is not to say that they as creatives don't have the talent to redeem themselves with this upcoming project now that they're outside of the WB umbrella.

Who knows what all went on, they might not have had a say in the direction of the game, they claim this was rocksteady's idea but idk. They clearly realized it wasn't working when they left though. And the fact they're new studio emphasizes AAA, single player games feels like a stab at WB to me.

 

[N0S]

 

[Little Chicken]

single-player, action-adventure game

 

[Sintoid]

A team making a game for Microsoft is a real Suicide Squad

 

[Meicyn]

AAA? Smells like a 2028 release.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

single-player, action-adventure game

Hope they follow the correct template

 

[gamer82]

so is this a console exclusive do we know yet ? heres hoping its just ms has paid for a timed one & it will still release on all other platforms .Being a new studio im sure they want to get as much money for there efforts. hopefully its good whatever they have planned i would love a tmnt game or maybe they could do that tmnt ronin game .

 

[Topher]

Hope they follow the correct template

That pic needs updating....

 

[winjer]

Please, don't be a GaaS.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

That pic needs updating....

belongs with the telltale template

 

[diffusionx]

Cool see you in 2031

 

[Radical_3d]

At first I only read this and I was like: “I knew they were super villains!!”

 

[Denorion]

They should've named the new Studio "Bebop games"

 

[mckmas8808]

Title is misleading

How is it misleading?

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

How is it misleading?

Batman games weren’t created by 2 people

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Finally, the sequel to Voodoo Vince

 

[{insert code here}]

Should be done by 2030.

 

[Spyxos]

It's a shame that it's still so far away, but Arkham games are among my absolute favorites.

 

[adamsapple]

Hopefully the Arkham team, not the Suicide Squad team.

 

[Daniel_Mallorca1985]

False alarm:

 

[squidilix]

 

[FunkMiller]

Based in Olympic Park it appears, near a client of mine. Might run into the office and scream 'DON'T MAKE IT A GAAS, FUCKERS!'

Sure that will go down well.

 

[semiconscious]

Do u think they have INITIATIVE?

'it's deja vu all over again...'
- yogi berra

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This should have been the approach from the get-go instead of buying studios in the first place

 

[vaibhavpisal]

I thought it was Rocksteady. They got desperate enough after Suicide Squad.

But anyways, don’t think it’s anything interesting unless they show some gameplay footage.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Based in Olympic Park it appears, near a client of mine. Might run into the office and scream 'DON'T MAKE IT A GAAS FUCKERS!'

Sure that will go down well.

Make sure you tell them what Ass does to rats as well

 

[Topher]

False alarm:

Translation:


"UPDATE: We have corrected the article due to a typo.

The game is NOT imminent, there are still years of full development ahead, but the editor made that mistake, sorry for the inconvenience.

PS: The article is now corrected."

What's the false alarm?

 

[vaibhavpisal]

This should have been the approach from the get-go instead of buying studios in the first place

They can still buy them.

 

[Rockman33]

Sounds great. But it’s going to be a while until this matures to a game we can consume.