Warner Bros. Games: Is WB Games planning to sell its top studios?

In mid-2020, rumors circulated that Warner, or the parent company AT&T, would like to say goodbye to the production of video games. New findings underpin the speculation.

Imran Khana well-informed ex-Game Informer writer and current for the website fanbyte active, oracles (via Twitter, see below) that WB Games will soon part with its most important game studios and that they are now for sale. A total of eleven developers are affected, including highly illustrious names such as Rocksteady, NetherRealm Studios, Avalanche Software, Monolith Productions and more.

Any buyers would of course already be ready with this considerable selection and could then incorporate IPs such as Mortal Kombat, Batman or Lego – a corresponding deposit would then of course be an important prerequisite here. Interested parties are said to include EA, Take 2, Microsoft, Sony, Tencent and PUBG Corporation. The Embracer Group, which currently buys everything that isn’t in the trees by three, is surprisingly missing from this list.

Of course, Warner has not yet commented on the assumptions – it will certainly be some time before there is an official statement. Still, selling the games division would be a big deal, and most of the studios put up for sale have turned in some real gems in the past. A platform exclusive Mortal Kombat, a Lego: The Mandalorian or No One Lives Forever 3 would massively enhance the portfolio of any bidder. What do you think of the current sales rumors surrounding Warner’s games division studios?

Couldn’t get enough confirmation to actually write a post about it, but hearing a decent bit of chatter this week about WB Discovery shopping their game development studios around.

— Imran Khan (@imranzomg) April 29, 2022