Warner Bros. Games cancel the Wonder Woman game, close a series of studios! – Game news

Warner Bros. Games Recently canceled the game Wonder Womanas well as closing a series of studios.

According to Jason Schreier (of the page Bloomberg), besides canceling the game, the company also closed Monolith Productions, Player First Games and WB San Diego.

A report from Jason Schreier shows these cuts “reflecting the recycling of the game segment into big brands like Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones And DC Comics, mainly about Batman ”.

In a notice sent to all employees that Jason Schreier collected, JB Perrette – CEO of Global Streaming and Warner Bros.’s game. Discovery – said “too many” recent games of the company “really do not meet expectations”.

“We need to make some significant changes in the product portfolio / structure if you want to use the necessary resources to return to the ‘less brand but more branded strategy’.”

Besides, Warner Bros. Games also made an official comment on this situation with the page Kotaku.

“We had to make some very difficult decisions to adjust the structure of development studios and our investments revolving around the construction of the best games possible with our main brands – Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC and Game of Thrones. After careful consideration, we will close our three studios – Monolith Productions, Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games San Diego. This is a change in the strategic direction, not reflecting the talent of these teams.

The development of Monolith’s Wonder Woman game will stop. We have hoped to bring fans a good experience with this celebrity, but unfortunately, this is no longer feasible in our strategic priorities. This is a difficult decision, because we recorded Monolith’s illustrious biography in bringing memorable experiences to fans through great games. We really admire the passion of the three groups and thank all employees for their contributions.

Although today is an extremely difficult day, we still focus and feel extremely excited about returning to produce high quality games for our passionate fans and bring our game business back again with profits to grow in 2025 and then. ”

Game Wonder Woman Published for the first time in 2021 at The Game Awards, and was developed by Monolith Productions. The project is planned to take advantage of the Nemesis System mechanism in the game series Middle-earth.

Since the announcement, everything revolves around the game is a hidden hidden. In particular, there are a number of reports that show that the game has had difficulties in the development process and had to “restart” everything in 2024.

On the Monolith Productions side, the company was founded in 1994 and became a “subsidiary” of Warner Bros. Games In 2004.

Besides, Player First Games will also be closed immediately after Multiversus – The first product of the company – Announcing the server in May. This studio is okay Warner Bros. Games Buy in July 2024.

Finally, WB San Diego was founded in 2019 and focused mainly on the development of free mobile games and games.

Warner Bros. Cutting his game array takes place just a few weeks after David Haddad – President of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment – Announcing leaving the company.

Currently, we still do not have a specific number of the number of employees affected by this cut.