Rocksteady Studios co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker are leaving the studio ahead of the release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in 2023.

Rocksteady Studios co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have announced that they will leave the studio at the end of 2022. They are embarking on “a new adventure in gaming”, away from the studio behind the Batman Arkham series and the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker founded Rocksteady Studios in 2004 after closing Argonaut Games, the studio that developed Star Fox for the Super NES.

Rocksteady Studios released its first game, Urban Chaos: Riot Response, in 2006. It was released for PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox. The game that made Rocksteady famous was Batman: Arkham Asylum. It is an action-adventure game released in 2009 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It won several awards, which led to the development of several sequels and spin-offs of the “Batman Arkhamverse”. Rocksteady Studios’ latest title and the fifth instalment in the Arkham series is Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. It will be released in early 2023 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Eighteen years after Rocksteady Studios was founded, Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker announced they would leave the company at the end of 2022. In a letter published on Rocksteady’s official website, the co-founders thanked the fans and the Rocksteady team. They stated that it was “time to hand over the reins” to “start a new adventure together in games.”

Hill and Walker will be replaced at the helm of Rocksteady Studios by Nathan Burlow as the new studio director, with Darius Sadeghian taking over as the studio’s director of product.

Burlow was a founding studio member and production director on all Batman Arkham games. Sadeghian joined Rocksteady nearly eight years ago. He has served as production director since 2020.

The management change comes ahead of the release of the fifth instalment in the Arkham series, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The action-adventure game will take place months after the events of Batman: Arkham Knight.

Source: Twitter

A message from Jamie & Sefton “We wanted you, the Rocksteady fans, to hear it first; we have decided to leave Rocksteady… From the day we founded the company all the way to today, Rocksteady has been our life & soul.”https://t.co/3ZRs1NMom2 pic.twitter.com/98I6YOgZrY

— Rocksteady Studios (@RocksteadyGames) October 26, 2022