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Warner Bros. Games (formerly Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment) is an American
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based in
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, and part of the Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of
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(WBD). The publisher was founded as Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on January 14, 2004, under
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and transferred to its Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. Warner Bros. Games manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios,
Monolith Productions Monolith Productions, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington. The company has been a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since August 2004. History Monolith Productions was founded on October ...
,
WB Games Boston WB Games Boston (formerly Turbine Inc., then Turbine Entertainment Software Corp., and originally CyberSpace, Inc.) is an American video game developer. The studio is best known for its massive multiplayer online role-playing games, ''Asheron's ...
, Avalanche Software, and
WB Games Montréal WB Games Montréal Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is best known for developing '' Batman: Arkham Origins'' and '' Gotham Knights''. History WB ...
, among others.


History

The foundation of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) under
Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Di ...
was announced on January 14, 2004, along with the WB Games (Warner Bros. Games) brand, under which WBIE would publish games. Jason Hall, previously of
Monolith Productions Monolith Productions, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington. The company has been a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since August 2004. History Monolith Productions was founded on October ...
, was named as its
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. Later that year, Warner Bros. acquired Monolith Productions. In October 2005, Warner Bros. created a new group– Warner Bros. Home Entertainment–and WBIE was transferred as part of it. The first game that Monolith developed in conjunction with Warner Bros. was ''
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'', which
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helped co-publish. Warner Bros. also helped distribute both '' Enter the Matrix'' and '' The Matrix: Path of Neo'' for the ''Matrix'' series. In 2006, they bought a 10.3% stake in SCi Entertainment, the owner of
Eidos Interactive Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited) is a British subsidiary of the Japanese video game company Square Enix, acting as their European publishing arm. The company formerly owned ''Tomb Raider'', which was in ...
. That same year, they released their first self-published title (with no co-publishers), '' Justice League Heroes'', which was distributed by Eidos on the
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. Also in 2006, British video game publisher Codemasters signed an American distribution deal with Warner Bros; the deal expired in 2011 when Codemasters left for
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. In 2012, Codemasters and Warner Bros. restarted the distribution deal after THQ went bankrupt. In 2007, they implemented a five-year plan, the goal of which was to expand in the
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and included the acquisition of studios for internal development and the creation of a studio (WB Games) in the
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area that will run all the games published and developed by the company; the first acquisition under this plan was Britain's TT Games that same year, for £100 million. In April 2008, they increased their stake to 35%, gaining distribution rights of all Eidos games in North America. On December 15, 2008, shortly after SCi changed their name to Eidos plc, Warner acquired a total of 10 million shares of the company, raising its owned amount to 19.92%, after an agreement which prevented Time Warner from acquiring more shares was scrapped one month earlier. On January 28, 2009,
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reported the deal also gave Warner the rights of the ''Tomb Raider'' film series, previously owned by
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. On February 12, 2009, Warner Bros. backed
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's acquisition offer worth £84.3 million for Eidos plc as majority stakeholder. Warner Bros. announced on February 4, 2009 it had purchased independent developer
Snowblind Studios Snowblind Studios was an American video game developer located in Kirkland, Washington. They were founded in 1997, specializing in role-playing video games. In February 2009, Snowblind Studios was acquired by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment ...
. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition serves to strengthen the publisher's internal development effort. In 2009, Warner purchased most of the assets of American publisher
Midway Games Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer and publisher. Midway's franchises included ''Mortal Kombat'', ''Rampage (series), Rampage'' ...
, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, for $49 million. The assets purchased include Midway's studio in Chicago and
Surreal Software Surreal Software was an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, known for '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', '' The Suffering'' and '' Drakan' ...
, resulting in the ownership to the rights to the '' Joust'', ''
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'', '' The Suffering'', '' Spy Hunter'' and '' Wheelman'' series. Midway had previously worked with Warner Bros. on several games, including ''
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''. Midway intended to hold an auction of its assets on June 29, 2009, but no other bids were placed. On July 10, the sale to Warner was completed for approximately . In the process, Warner became the owner of the '' Blitz: The League'' series. On July 28, 2009, Midway's ''
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'' team was rebranded WB Games Chicago and, in 2010, was merged with Midway Games to form NetherRealm Studios. On January 13, 2010, it was announced that WBIE would produce and gain exclusive rights to ''
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'' video games, starting in fall 2010 with ''Elmo's A-to-Zoo Adventure'' and ''Cookie's Counting Carnival''. On February 23, 2010, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group announced it had acquired a majority stake in independent London-based developer Rocksteady Studios, an independent development studio based in
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. Rocksteady and Warner had previously worked together in '' Batman: Arkham Asylum'' and '' Batman: Arkham City'', and have announced they will work in the future with more Warner Bros. licenses. On March 22, 2010, WBIE became the latest videogame company to open a studio in
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. Martin Tremblay was chosen to lead the new
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studio,
WB Games Montréal WB Games Montréal Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is best known for developing '' Batman: Arkham Origins'' and '' Gotham Knights''. History WB ...
. The studio gradually grow to include more than 300 people by the end of 2015. Tremblay also said that Warner would open another studio in another city soon. He also said that WB Games Montréal will focus on creating games based on the
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license. On April 9, WBIE announced it would publish a third installment to the ''
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'' series in the fall of 2010. On April 20, 2010, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group acquired
Turbine, Inc. WB Games Boston (formerly Turbine Inc., then Turbine Entertainment Software Corp., and originally CyberSpace, Inc.) is an American video game developer. The studio is best known for its massive multiplayer online role-playing games, ''Asheron's ...
the developer of the famous MMOs ''
Asheron's Call ''Asheron's Call'' (AC) was a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows PCs, developed and published by Turbine Entertainment Software. Though it was developed by the Turbine team (with Microsoft's ext ...
'', ''
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'' and ''
The Lord of the Rings Online ''The Lord of the Rings Online'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows and OS X set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, taking place during the time period of ''The Lord of the Rings''. Originally d ...
''. On June 4, WBHEG and Turbine, inc. said that the massively multiplayer online title ''The Lord of the Rings Online'' was to become a free-to-play game that autumn. WBIE announced 6 days later that ''
Mortal Kombat ''Mortal Kombat'' is an American media franchise centered on a series of video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992. The development of the first game was originally based on an idea that Ed Boon and John Tobias had of making a v ...
'', a reboot of the series (and considered the series' most brutal installment to date), was due for release on the
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and
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in 2011. ''Mortal Kombat'' was developed by the newly renamed NetherRealm Studios, led by series creator and creative director Ed Boon. Branching out from '' Game Party'' for the
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, WBIE attempted to leverage the
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's new full-body motion-sensing device
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on June 14 and revealed '' Game Party: In Motion'' for the new device, set for a November 4 release as a launch title. After Kevin Tsujihara became chairman and CEO of Warner Bros., he promoted Diane Nelson to the post of President and Chief Content Officer of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. In January 2015, David Haddad was named Executive Vice President and General Manager of the company and was promoted to President in October. On December 19, 2016, it was announced that Warner Bros. would no longer develop or publish ''The Lord of the Rings Online'' or ''Dungeons & Dragons Online''; further development of the game would be handled by a newly formed studio, Standing Stone Games, with publishing to be transitioned over to
Daybreak Game Company Daybreak Game Company LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego. The company was founded in December 1997 as Sony Online Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, but was spun off to an independent investor in ...
. The new studio would take the old development team from Turbine, leaving Turbine as a mobile-only developer. As part of the deal, Daybreak did not pick up the rights to ''Asheron's Call'', an original IP created by Turbine and thus owned by Warner Bros. as part of the 2010 acquisition. This resulted in the closure of ''Asheron's Call'' and '' Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings'' on January 31, 2017. On January 24, 2017, it was announced that recently-closed studio Avalanche Software and its Octane engine software were acquired by Warner Bros. from Disney Interactive Studios and the studio was reopened, with John Blackburn returning as its CEO. The studio's first title under Warner was a companion video game to the
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- Pixar film '' Cars 3'', titled '' Cars 3: Driven to Win'', in partnership with Warner Bros., Disney, and Pixar. On February 8, Playdemic was acquired through TT Games to make Lego games for mobile devices. On July 11, 2018, it acquired Plexchat, a communications platform for mobile games, with its founder and staff joining WB Games San Francisco. In mid-2020, there had been industry rumors that AT&T, as to raise funds, was looking to sell off parts of its divisions, with WBIE as one that had been rumored to be up for sale that would have raised $4 billion, according to
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and The Information; potential buyers had been rumored to include
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,
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, Activision Blizzard and
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. However, in an August 2020 press release regarding an organizational restructuring, WarnerMedia stated that WBIE "remains part of the Studios and Networks group".
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reported AT&T has confirmed to no longer be selling the game division, the decision to keep the division amid a change in leadership at AT&T in July of that year. Instead, in May 2021, AT&T announced that it was splitting off WarnerMedia for about , where it will be merged with
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into a new venture. As part of this sale, there were rumors that only portions of WBIE would be moved with the bulk of the other WarnerMedia properties, but WBIE will be retained under the new merged company, set to be named
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. Playdemic will be one of the few properties divested from the merger, with it being in the pending acquisition of being sold to Electronic Arts for in June 2021 with the acquisition to be completed by 2022. The Electronic Arts' acquisition of Playdemic was completed on September 20, 2021. It was announced on April 7, 2022, that Warner Bros. Games was reorganized with streaming services
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and
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to form Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment, to be overseen by JB Perrette; WB Games president David Haddad would report directly to Perrette.


Subsidiaries and divisions


Publishing labels

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Portkey Games Portkey Games is a video game label owned by Warner Bros. Games founded in 2017 and dedicated to creating gaming experiences related to the Wizarding World. Overview Portkey Games first announced their first game in 2017, working with ''Poké ...
, which was founded in 2017 as the publishing label for games set within the
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franchise.


Studios

* Avalanche Software in
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, founded in 1995, acquired by
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in 2005, closed along with the former parent company of the studio, Disney Interactive Studios, in May 2016. Acquired by WBIE in January 2017, which reopened the studio. *
Monolith Productions Monolith Productions, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington. The company has been a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since August 2004. History Monolith Productions was founded on October ...
in
Kirkland, Washington Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. A suburb east of Seattle, its population was 92,175 in the 2020 U.S. census which made it the sixth largest city in the county and the twelfth largest in the state. The city's downto ...
, founded in 1994, acquired in 2004. * NetherRealm Studios in
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, founded as
Midway Games Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer and publisher. Midway's franchises included ''Mortal Kombat'', ''Rampage (series), Rampage'' ...
Chicago in 1988, acquired in 2009, and renamed in 2010. * Rocksteady Studios in
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, founded in 2004 and majority stake acquired in February 2010. * TT Games in Knutsford,
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, founded in 2005, acquired November 8, 2007. **
Traveller's Tales Traveller's Tales is a British video game developer and a subsidiary of TT Games. Traveller's Tales was founded in 1989 by Jon Burton and Andy Ingram. Initially a small company focused on its own content, it grew in profile through developing ...
in Knutsford, England, founded in 1989, reorganized as the main development division of TT Games in 2005. ** TT Fusion in Wilmslow, England, founded in 2005 as Embryonic Studios, reorganized as a division of TT Games in 2007. ** TT Games Publishing,
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, England, founded in 2003 as Giant Interactive Entertainment, reorganized as a division of TT Games in 2005. ** TT Odyssey in
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, founded in January 2018 as TT Games Brighton, renamed in March 2018. *
WB Games Montréal WB Games Montréal Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is best known for developing '' Batman: Arkham Origins'' and '' Gotham Knights''. History WB ...
in
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, founded in 2010. *
WB Games Boston WB Games Boston (formerly Turbine Inc., then Turbine Entertainment Software Corp., and originally CyberSpace, Inc.) is an American video game developer. The studio is best known for its massive multiplayer online role-playing games, ''Asheron's ...
in
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, founded in 1994, acquired in 2010. * WB Games New York in
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, founded as Agora Games in 2005, acquired and renamed in 2017. * WB Games San Diego in
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; founded in 2019. * WB Games San Francisco in
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, founded in 2013.


Former studios

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Snowblind Studios Snowblind Studios was an American video game developer located in Kirkland, Washington. They were founded in 1997, specializing in role-playing video games. In February 2009, Snowblind Studios was acquired by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment ...
in
Kirkland, Washington Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. A suburb east of Seattle, its population was 92,175 in the 2020 U.S. census which made it the sixth largest city in the county and the twelfth largest in the state. The city's downto ...
, founded in 1997, acquired in 2009. Merged into Monolith Productions in 2012. *
Surreal Software Surreal Software was an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, known for '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', '' The Suffering'' and '' Drakan' ...
in Kirkland, Washington, founded in 1995, acquired from
Midway Games Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer and publisher. Midway's franchises included ''Mortal Kombat'', ''Rampage (series), Rampage'' ...
on July 27, 2009. Merged into Monolith Productions in 2010. * Playdemic in
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, England, founded in 2010, acquired on February 8, 2017, sold to
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in June 2021.


List of video games


See also

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List of video games based on DC Comics This is a list of video games based on DC Comics. Video games 1970s–80s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * List of video games based on comics *List of video games featuring Batman *List of video games featuring Superman *Marvel Games ...
** List of Superman video games **
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* Middle-earth in video games *
List of Looney Tunes video games This is a list of video games featuring various '' Looney Tunes'' characters. Platforms: Arcade, Atari 2600, PC, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Game Boy, Handheld Electronic Game, DOS, Super Nintendo Ent ...
** List of Tiny Toon Adventures video games *
List of Tom and Jerry video games The animated cat and mouse duo Tom and Jerry have appeared in various video games. Release chart List Computer game ''Tom & Jerry'' (also known as ''Tom & Jerry: Hunting High and Low'') was released for Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64 compu ...


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