The wave of significant layoffs continues to sweep through the industry like torrential waters. This time, it has reached the studios owned by Warner Bros. Games.
This Monolith game was aptly named: "No One Lives Forever"
As reported by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, the company has decided to close down three teams at once:
- Monolith Productions — founded in 1994, this studio was the forge behind action series such as Blood, No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R., Condemned. Its most recent games were Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
- Player First Games — established in 2019, this team spent all six years of its operation developing the fighting game MultiVersus.
- WB San Diego — nothing is known about this studio, other than its involvement in developing free-to-play AAA games.
In the news of the closures, Schreier also reported that Warner Bros. Games is halting the development of the ambitious blockbuster Wonder Woman, on which more than $100 million had already been spent. The project had been in development by Monolith Productions for over four years. Earlier this year, its development was restarted.
Warner Bros. Games officially confirmed the layoffs and explained it as a desire to focus on creating games based on key franchises — Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC, and Game of Thrones.