Warner Bros. Games is making big cuts, closing three studios — Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB Games San Diego — and cancelling its long-in-development Wonder Woman game, the publisher told employees on Tuesday. All projects from those studios have been canceled.
Employees at Warner Bros. Games studios were informed of the closures and game cancellations in a communication from executive JB Perrette, the CEO and president of global streaming and games for Warner Bros. Discovery.
In an email to employees obtained by Polygon, Perrette cited a “disappointing 2024” for the company’s games division, saying that it would focus on four franchises going forward: Harry Potter/Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat, DC (“primarily Batman when it comes to single character-led games but may include select other opportunities as the new DCU gets built”), and Game of Thrones.
Regarding the now-scrapped Wonder Woman, which was announced in 2021, Perrette said the game no longer fell “within our strategic priorities.” Perrette said the company is looking to “repurpose our talent where possible” by reassigning employees to open roles.
In addition to focusing on “fewer but bigger franchises,” Perrette said Warner Bros. Games aims to return to growing its mobile games revenue as well as “regain our credibility and swagger at producing great games.” Perrette said of recent releases from WB Games, “the product-market fit and quality of too many of our new releases has really missed the mark.”
“We need to and will do better for our fans first and foremost, and also because regaining that credibility is critical to us securing even more investment in Games in the years to come,” Perrette wrote. “Getting our swagger back happens one high quality game release at a time, and our financial credibility gets rebuilt one fiscal quarter at a time — delivering what we said we would deliver, and no big negative surprises.”
Polygon has reached out to Warner Bros. Discovery for comment on today’s closures and will update when the company responds.
