In this afternoon's "DC Focus: Geoff Johns" panel at Comic-Con International, DC Entertainment's chief creative officer revealed that work has begun on a Suicide Squad video game.

Johns said the game, which is being developed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, will be "hardcore violent."

The studio's video-game publishing unit has undergone dramatic expansion over the past few years, acquiring developers TT Games, Snowblind Studios, Rocksteady Studios and Turbine Inc., and in March announcing plans for a new game-development studio in downtown Montreal.

Following the critical and commercial success of last year's Batman: Arkham Asylum, which sold a reported 2 million copies in its first three weeks of success, Warner Bros. announced it's developing a sequel. It's also working with Double Helix on a Green Lantern game that will be released along with next summer's film.

DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson told Hero Complex it's part of a push to put more DC characters in WBIE titles. (The new WB Games Montreal is expected to focus largely on the company's comics properties.)

Although Nelson says that not all of the games will tie in to movies -- for instance, Arkham Asylum had nothing to do with The Dark Knight -- it seems likely that Suicide Squad title will be connected to the big-screen adaptation announced in February 2009.

Awesome. I hope the roster is decent.

I had high hopes for the game, until it was stated to be based on the upcoming movie.
 
I think I'll spend $60 on something else when it comes out.

Cheshire and Bronze Tiger better be in it or no sale...

Being a huge super-villain fan, I'll probably be interested depending on whether there's going to be a PC version or not.

So how'd that turn out for you, guys?

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@bigcimmerian: Whyyyy?

lmfao I slightly got excited until I saw the date that it was posted

sorry man :D

You son of a….

I didn't mean to dissapoint you, I wanted to hear if there are any recent news about the game hahahaha

@bigcimmerian: With the release of Assault on Arkham, and the endings of Arkham Origins and Blackgate, I'd expect it to pop up not too long after Arkham Knight.

There's been a ton of Suicide Squad build up from WB pretty recently, so if it's ever going to happen, I can see it being official soon.

Cool, I'm sick of Batman games, other DC heroes should have games. I'd like to play great Aquaman and Flash games besides Suicide Squad.

Its been five years now and they still dont have a game. :(

Hopefully with the film coming out and likely going to be a hit that will be enough to give this enough traction to happen.

@darkdetective27 said:

lol, I was thinking "Who bumped this thread?" Shoulda known :)

@captainmarvel4ever: Yep you know me and the Suicide Squad and superhero video games. Sucks this probably wont end up happening.

Well, this was announced a while ago… I just want anybody who is newly reading this to know… I PREORDERED THE DELUXE VERSION SO I GET TONNES OF BONUSES WHICH INCLUDE;