Warner Bros. Discovery has published its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2024. We have highlighted the key points related to the gaming division.

At the start of the week, it became known that Warner Bros. Discovery is closing three studios: Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego. Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier shared insights on the Kinda Funny Games podcast about the reasons behind Monolith Productions’ closure and what had been happening at the studio in recent years.

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.

Charlie the Unicorn is a series of web cartoons about a unicorn named Charlie, which went viral in the early 2000s. Recently, it was featured in an advertisement for new skins for MultiVersus. This did not sit well with Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele.

Warner Bros. disclosed new sales data for Hogwarts Legacy in an interview with Variety: in less than two years since its release, the game has sold over 30 million copies.

It appears that NetherRealm Studios has decided to exit the mobile gaming market. Several former employees of the studio wrote on social media that the mobile team has been disbanded.

The head of Warner Bros. Discovery’s games and streaming division, Jean-Briac Perrette, announced that the company now plans to focus more on service-based solutions rather than AAA games.

The director told about it on Twitter, answering questions from users of the social network.

On June 26, the open beta of the MultiVersus fighting game started. By the evening, the peak online games on Steam exceeded 144.4 thousand people (according to SteamDB), which is significantly more than the rest of the Warner Bros. projects.

The success of free-to-play cross-platform games did not go unnoticed by Warner Bros., which had previously experimented with shareware monetization mainly in mobile. Now the company is preparing its response to Fortnite and Genshin Imact.

Warner Bros. Gaming Division It will remain in the AT&T structure. The company is not going to be sold for several reasons, including the potential success of future game releases and plans to repay the huge debt of the media conglomerate.According to Bloomberg sources familiar with the situation, AT&T considered Warner Bros.

According to Time Warner Media Corporation, the superhero fighting game Injustice 2 by NetherRealm studio became the highest-grossing console game in the second quarter of this year.

Warner Bros. and a group of representatives of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien Estate have entered into a settlement agreement on a lawsuit for $ 80 million.

For the post of president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment appointed David Haddad (David Haddad). Prior to that, he held a position one step below and was the vice president of the division.

A shareware quiz from Ellen DeGeneres, a comedic actress and TV show host, appeared in the stores. A game called Psych! Outwit Your Friends is DeGeneres’ second title. The first was the paid Heads Up.

Warner Bros. earned more than $500 million. for the second fiscal quarter of 2015 at the games.

Warner Bros is developing its own digital distribution service. It is supposed to be possible to buy games and related “staff” through it.

A report by Greg Ballard from Warner Bros. at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.