Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League will no longer be released this year, as Rocksteady Studios decide to push its release date back by a year.

Rocksteady Studios director Sefton Hill made the announcement, saying:

“We've made the difficult decision to delay Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League to Spring 2023. I know a delay is frustrating but that time is going into making the best game we can. I look forward to bringing the chaos to Metropolis together. Thanks for your patience.”

While the obvious reason for the delay is to give the studio more development time, it's not clear if this is done to add more polish or if the game really isn't content-ready yet. Regardless of the case, the extra time will surely help make the game much more consumer-ready by the time of its release.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is the true sequel to the Batman: Arkham series (not the Gotham Knights one, which is definitely coming out this year). This will be the first Arkham game that will not feature Batman as the player character, but will instead let players take control of the Suicide Squad – a bunch of B-tier super villains that are usually thwarted by Batman with just one or two comic book issues rather than entire arcs. The supervillains are assembled by Amanda Waller for a special assignment – to kill the Justice League who has gone brought after the alien invader Brainiac brainwashed the superheroes.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is described as a “genre-bending” action-adventure game set in an open world based on Metropolis, Superman's home court. The game features four playable characters: Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark. Players can embark on a single-player journey, but we imagine this game plays like Borderlands, in that it'd definitely be more fun if played in its four-player coop mode.