Monolith and Player First Games have ben closed.
Warner Bros has closed dev studios Monolith Productions and Player First Games, and has cancelled all projects in development at those studios — including Wonder Woman.
CEO and president of global streaming and games for Warner Bros. Discovery, JB Perrette, confirmed the closures in an email to employees.
“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 (via Polygon). “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.”
Perrette confirmed that Warner Bros would double-down on big franchises including Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC, though quickly added that Monolith’s DC-focused Wonder Woman didn’t fall “within our strategic priorities”. Instead, DC content will focus “primarily [on] Batman when it comes to single character-led games but may include select other opportunities as the new DCU gets built”.
Earlier this month, Warner Bros confirmed that it was shuttering MultiVersus, a game by the now-defunct Player First Games. Also earlier this month, it was alleged that Wonder Woman was facing troubles in development.
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