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BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. (bsky.app)
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Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

This is maybe the biggest bloodbath we've seen in this industry? What a damn shame.

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I really hope these teams are able to stay together. Monolith was absolutely getting wasted by Warner Bros. Games, they're way too good a studio to get stuck making brand tie-ins. Just more dogshit mismanagement from Zaslav though, Warner Bros keeps seeing flops but won't address the problem.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll point out an additional post from Schreier:

I see a lot of people responding to this news with complaints about David Zaslav, but it was president David Haddad who ran Warner Bros. Games for the last decade and who was responsible for overseeing all of the studios and their output.

By the time David Zaslav took over WB Discovery in April 2022, Monolith had already gone almost five years without shipping a game and lost almost its entire leadership team under Haddad's management

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's fair, I only knew Zaslav had been pushing hard for live-service games and will likely be the death of Rocksteady. Fuck Haddad too then. Why does Warner Bros employ so many execs with Batman-villain ass last names?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Definitely not Batman villains. If they were Batman villains, they'd be puns like Egsek Yutiv or something to go along with the Harleen Quinzels and Edward Nigmas of its world.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

I was thinking more like a Victor Zsasz or an Aaron Helzinger. Not top tier Batmen villains, more like the C-listers.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If Jason Hall is still out there and sitting on cash, I'd love to see him get some of the team back together and reboot Blood. But my understanding is WB owns the rights and Atari couldn't afford to get the rights (they still hold the publish rights from the Infogrames days, hence why we got a re-release).

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if they can't get the rights, it's not like there's anything stopping them from making a new original "boomer shooter." I don't need it to be called Blood 2, I just want them to make something high-octane and kickass again.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

There was a Blood 2 and it sucked, you have a good point

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Are any of the old F.E.A.R. or Condemned developers still at Monolith?