{"id":114031,"date":"2016-12-22T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T08:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=114031"},"modified":"2016-12-22T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T08:06:37","slug":"suicide-squad-game-canned-new-batman-title-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/114031-suicide-squad-game-canned-new-batman-title-in-the-works","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Squad game canned, new Batman title in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A game based on DC\u2019s Suicide Squad has long been in the works at Warner Bros. Montreal, but the studio has now reportedly shut-down the anti-hero project to shift focus onto a new Batman game.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/sources-wb-montreal-cancels-unannounced-suicide-squad-1790256635\" target=\"_blank\">According to Kotaku<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Warner Bros. executives decided to axe the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suicide Squad <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">game earlier this month after an early version of the game failed to impress Warner Bros. management during greenlight meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though the studio had been working on the Suicide Squad game for over 2 years, the project has now been scrapped and the team is moving onto the next Batman game \u2014 one which will focus on Bruce Wayne\u2019s son, Damian Wayne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no details on the rumoured Damian Wayne game, but it may\u00a0follow the events of Batman: Arkham Knight, or be an entirely new spin-off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21666 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Damian01.jpg\" alt=\"Damian01\" width=\"687\" height=\"558\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article\u00a0courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/new-batman-game-in-the-works-suicide-squad-game-cancelled\/\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to South Africa\u2019s favourite YouTubers revealed\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113617-south-africas-favourite-youtubers-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa\u2019s favourite YouTubers revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst heroes ever get the thumbs-down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":103629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,247,23793,16245,1826,2664,21150,11461,1157,251,9529,13638],"class_list":["post-114031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-batman","tag-damian-wayne","tag-dc","tag-game","tag-gaming","tag-suicide-squad","tag-superhero","tag-video-games","tag-warner-bros","tag-warner-bros-montreal","tag-wb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114043,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031\/revisions\/114043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}