WB Games To Focus On Four Franchises

Warner Bros. Discovery has announced it intends to refocus its video game unit to focus on four core franchises – “Game of Thrones,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Harry Potter” and the DC Universe.

The refocus comes as the company’s video game division will become part of the ‘Streaming & Studios’ spinoff once the media giant splits into two entities in mid-2026. It will join the likes of HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Bros. Television in that new company.

Warner Bros. Games owns multiple celebrated developers, including Rocksteady Studios, Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, TT Games, and its various WB Games divisions.

The ‘refocus’, which will see some executives being shuffled around and doesn’t mean a lot because the company is mostly focused on those franchises anyway, comes in response to erratic results from the unit.

In 2023, the company had big success with the year’s top-selling title, the single-player “Hogwarts Legacy,” and solid sales and acclaim for its “Mortal Kombat 1” reboot.

In 2024, it faceplanted with the costly bombs of two live-service titles – “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” and its live-service title “MultiVersus”. The company also made headlines for scrapping some high-profile games, including a much-anticipated “Wonder Woman” game from the now-shuttered Monolith Productions.

Despite those costly failures in the live-service arena, WBD has previously indicated it intends to bolster its efforts on that front, which has left fans concerned over a “Hogwarts Legacy 2” being turned into a live-service, microtransaction-heavy title.

Source: Deadline

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