Warner Bros Games has announced a new restructuring, six months after the departure of its president David Hadded, as it continues to re-orient itself around four franchises. The new structure will see WB Games split into three divisions based on what the company considers its four most important gaming properties: Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat and DC (but mainly Batman).
This has been the direction of travel for WB Games for some time now, and seems prompted by a couple of high-profile failures in particular. The most prominent is Rocksteady's Suicide Squad, a live service title that flopped and apparently cost WB Games an eye-watering $200 million. The other is Multiversus, a pretty decent fighting game that included many WB properties, but failed to catch on and, after one attempt at a relaunch, the company said "that's all folks" at the start of this year.
