New Batman game by Rocksteady and Wonder Woman reboot underway claims report

Monolith’s Wonder Woman game has undergone a reboot according to a new report, as Rocksteady looks to return to Batman. Despite the sales success of Hogwarts Legacy, the gaming division at Warner Bros. has been lurching from one failure to the other over recent years. Last year’s release of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League kicked off what became an especially bad year for the company, with both Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions and MultiVersus (which is set to shut down soon) failing to meet expectations – leading to a massive $300 million overall.

A new report has now shed light on future projects under Warner Bros. Games, which are hoping to turn the tide, although it doesn’t seem as if they’re two new DC projects will be out anytime soon. According to Bloomberg, the Wonder Woman game, which was originally announced in 2021, was rebooted ‘early last year’ and switched directors. It’s unclear, however, who has taken over. It’s claimed the game has already cost Warner Bros. Games $100 million, and because of this reboot, is ‘still years away from release, if it ever makes it to market’.

According to the report, the first version of Wonder Woman ‘tried reimagining’ the Nemesis system used in the studio’s previous game, Middle-earth: Shadow Of War, so the DC heroine would ‘befriend enemies’. That idea, however, has apparently been ditched ‘in favour of a more traditional action adventure game’. At this stage though, it’s claimed ‘Wonder Woman’s fate remains in question’ due to leadership changes at Monolith Productions and ‘issues’ with the game’s technology, so it’s unclear if it will ever see the light of day at all.

There are various claims about projects in the works at other Warner Bros. Games studios. Gotham Knights developer WB Games Montreal allegedly pitched games based on DC antihero John Constantine and The Flash, but these were both canned, with the latter due to the box office failure of the 2023 movie starring Ezra Miller. Now, it’s said the studio is supporting development on Wonder Woman, while ‘working on a pitch for a new game based on Game Of Thrones’.

As for Suicide Squad developer Rocksteady, the report claims the studio is ‘looking to return to Batman for a single-player game’ but the project is ‘years away from landing’. So don’t get too excited about a potential follow-up to Batman: Arkham Knight just yet. Overall, it paints a pretty bleak picture for the future slate of Warner Bros. Games. The company itself is in a period of transition, after president David Haddad announced he would be stepping down last month, with a successor yet to be determined.

The company’s most bankable hit moving forward is the sequel to Hogwarts Legacy, which is set to connect in some way to the Harry Potter TV series planned for 2026. A release date for the sequel, however, is yet to be announced. We might be getting more Hogwarts Legacy soon though, with a special edition featuring extra content rumoured to be in the works. Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter.

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