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Warner Bros. Games
Warner Bros. Games (formerly Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California. The publisher was founded as a division of Warner Bros. on January 14, 2004, as well as the WB Games brand. Warner Bros. Games manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software and WB Games Montréal among others.
The foundation of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) under Warner Bros. was announced on January 14, 2004, along with the WB Games (Warner Bros. Games) brand, under which WBIE would publish games. Jason Hall, previously of Monolith Productions, was named as its senior vice president. Before this, the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment brand was used by Warner Bros. Consumer Products for licensing purposes since 1995 with the video game tie-in of Batman Forever. In 2003, Warner Bros. co-published its first title Looney Tunes: Back in Action as part of a partnership with the Electronic Arts subsidiary EA Distribution, becoming the first title published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. In August, Warner Bros. purchased Monolith Productions, becoming their first self-owned game developer.
In 2005, the first game that Monolith developed in conjunction with Warner Bros. was The Matrix Online, which Sega helped co-publish. In July, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced the release of its first self-published title, Friends: The One with All the Trivia, for Microsoft Windows and the PlayStation 2, on November 15, 2005. The game would be distributed through Warner Home Video, and would tie-in with the release of the Friends complete series DVD boxset. In October, Warner Bros. created Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and WBIE was transferred as part of it.
In December, WBIE entered in a North American distribution deal with British game publisher Codemasters. Also within that month, the company invested a 10.3% stake in SCi Entertainment, the owner of Eidos Interactive. The deal also included a licensing deal for Eidos to develop and publish titles based on select DC Comics properties (Comic book Batman and Legion of Super Heroes), Looney Tunes (including Loonatics Unleashed), Hanna-Barbera and The O.C..
In 2007, they implemented a five-year plan, the goal of which was to expand in the video game industry and included the acquisition of studios for internal development and the creation of a studio (WB Games) in the Seattle area that will run all the games published and developed by the company; the first acquisition under this plan was Britain's TT Games that same year, for £100 million. The deal included the publishing division of the company, developers Traveller's Tales and TT Fusion, motion capture studio TT Centroid, and animation studio TT Animation.
In April 2008, Warner Bros. announced that it had increased its stake in SCi Entertainment to 35%, allowing WBIE to distribute Eidos Interactive titles in North America. On December 15, 2008, shortly after SCi changed their name to Eidos plc, Warner acquired a total of 10 million shares of the company, raising its owned amount to 19.92%, after an agreement which prevented Time Warner from acquiring more shares was scrapped one month earlier. On January 28, 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported the deal also gave Warner the rights of the Tomb Raider film series, previously owned by Paramount Pictures. On February 12, 2009, Warner Bros. backed Square Enix's acquisition offer worth £84.3 million for Eidos plc as majority stakeholder.
On February 4, 2009, WBIT purchased Snowblind Studios. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition serves to strengthen the publisher's internal development effort. In August 2009, Warner announced that they would purchase a majority of the assets of American publisher Midway Games, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, for $49 million. The assets purchased include Midway's studio in Chicago and Surreal Software, resulting in the ownership to the rights to the Joust, Mortal Kombat, The Suffering, Spy Hunter and Wheelman series, as well as the library of the former Atari Games, which had previously been owned by Time Warner. Midway had previously worked with Warner Bros. on several games, including Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Midway intended to hold an auction of its assets on June 29, 2009, but no other bids were placed. On July 10, the sale to Warner was completed for approximately US$49 million. In the process, Warner became the owner of the Blitz: The League series. On July 28, 2009, Midway's Mortal Kombat team was rebranded WB Games Chicago.
On January 13, 2010, WBIT secured a worldwide licensing agreement with Sesame Workshop to secure video game rights to Sesame Street, starting in fall 2010 with Elmo's A-to-Zoo Adventure and Cookie's Counting Carnival. On February 23, the company purchased a majority stake in independent London-based developer Rocksteady Studios, an independent development studio based in London. Rocksteady and Warner had previously worked together in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, and have announced they will work in the future with more Warner Bros. licenses. On March 22, 2010, WBIE became the latest videogame company to open a studio in Quebec. Martin Tremblay was chosen to lead the new Montreal studio, WB Games Montréal. The studio gradually grow to include more than 300 people by the end of 2015. Tremblay also said that Warner would open another studio in another city soon. He also said that WB Games Montréal will focus on creating games based on the DC Comics license. On April 9, WBIE announced it would publish a third installment to the F.E.A.R. series in the fall of 2010. On April 20, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group acquired Turbine, Inc. the developer of the famous MMOs Asheron's Call, Dungeons & Dragons Online and The Lord of the Rings Online. On the same day, WBIT announced that the WB Games Chicago studio would be reincorporated as NetherRealm Studios and shortly afterward announced a reboot of Mortal Kombat. On June 4, WBHEG and Turbine announced that the massively multiplayer online title The Lord of the Rings Online would go free-to-play that autumn. WBIE announced 6 days later that Mortal Kombat, a reboot of the series (and considered the series' most brutal installment to date), was due for release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011. Mortal Kombat was developed by the newly renamed NetherRealm Studios, led by series creator and creative director Ed Boon. Branching out from Game Party for the Wii, WBIE attempted to leverage the Xbox 360's new full-body motion-sensing device Kinect on June 14 and revealed Game Party: In Motion for the new device, set for a November 4 release as a launch title.
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Warner Bros. Games
Warner Bros. Games (formerly Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California. The publisher was founded as a division of Warner Bros. on January 14, 2004, as well as the WB Games brand. Warner Bros. Games manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software and WB Games Montréal among others.
The foundation of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) under Warner Bros. was announced on January 14, 2004, along with the WB Games (Warner Bros. Games) brand, under which WBIE would publish games. Jason Hall, previously of Monolith Productions, was named as its senior vice president. Before this, the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment brand was used by Warner Bros. Consumer Products for licensing purposes since 1995 with the video game tie-in of Batman Forever. In 2003, Warner Bros. co-published its first title Looney Tunes: Back in Action as part of a partnership with the Electronic Arts subsidiary EA Distribution, becoming the first title published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. In August, Warner Bros. purchased Monolith Productions, becoming their first self-owned game developer.
In 2005, the first game that Monolith developed in conjunction with Warner Bros. was The Matrix Online, which Sega helped co-publish. In July, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced the release of its first self-published title, Friends: The One with All the Trivia, for Microsoft Windows and the PlayStation 2, on November 15, 2005. The game would be distributed through Warner Home Video, and would tie-in with the release of the Friends complete series DVD boxset. In October, Warner Bros. created Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and WBIE was transferred as part of it.
In December, WBIE entered in a North American distribution deal with British game publisher Codemasters. Also within that month, the company invested a 10.3% stake in SCi Entertainment, the owner of Eidos Interactive. The deal also included a licensing deal for Eidos to develop and publish titles based on select DC Comics properties (Comic book Batman and Legion of Super Heroes), Looney Tunes (including Loonatics Unleashed), Hanna-Barbera and The O.C..
In 2007, they implemented a five-year plan, the goal of which was to expand in the video game industry and included the acquisition of studios for internal development and the creation of a studio (WB Games) in the Seattle area that will run all the games published and developed by the company; the first acquisition under this plan was Britain's TT Games that same year, for £100 million. The deal included the publishing division of the company, developers Traveller's Tales and TT Fusion, motion capture studio TT Centroid, and animation studio TT Animation.
In April 2008, Warner Bros. announced that it had increased its stake in SCi Entertainment to 35%, allowing WBIE to distribute Eidos Interactive titles in North America. On December 15, 2008, shortly after SCi changed their name to Eidos plc, Warner acquired a total of 10 million shares of the company, raising its owned amount to 19.92%, after an agreement which prevented Time Warner from acquiring more shares was scrapped one month earlier. On January 28, 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported the deal also gave Warner the rights of the Tomb Raider film series, previously owned by Paramount Pictures. On February 12, 2009, Warner Bros. backed Square Enix's acquisition offer worth £84.3 million for Eidos plc as majority stakeholder.
On February 4, 2009, WBIT purchased Snowblind Studios. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition serves to strengthen the publisher's internal development effort. In August 2009, Warner announced that they would purchase a majority of the assets of American publisher Midway Games, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, for $49 million. The assets purchased include Midway's studio in Chicago and Surreal Software, resulting in the ownership to the rights to the Joust, Mortal Kombat, The Suffering, Spy Hunter and Wheelman series, as well as the library of the former Atari Games, which had previously been owned by Time Warner. Midway had previously worked with Warner Bros. on several games, including Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Midway intended to hold an auction of its assets on June 29, 2009, but no other bids were placed. On July 10, the sale to Warner was completed for approximately US$49 million. In the process, Warner became the owner of the Blitz: The League series. On July 28, 2009, Midway's Mortal Kombat team was rebranded WB Games Chicago.
On January 13, 2010, WBIT secured a worldwide licensing agreement with Sesame Workshop to secure video game rights to Sesame Street, starting in fall 2010 with Elmo's A-to-Zoo Adventure and Cookie's Counting Carnival. On February 23, the company purchased a majority stake in independent London-based developer Rocksteady Studios, an independent development studio based in London. Rocksteady and Warner had previously worked together in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, and have announced they will work in the future with more Warner Bros. licenses. On March 22, 2010, WBIE became the latest videogame company to open a studio in Quebec. Martin Tremblay was chosen to lead the new Montreal studio, WB Games Montréal. The studio gradually grow to include more than 300 people by the end of 2015. Tremblay also said that Warner would open another studio in another city soon. He also said that WB Games Montréal will focus on creating games based on the DC Comics license. On April 9, WBIE announced it would publish a third installment to the F.E.A.R. series in the fall of 2010. On April 20, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group acquired Turbine, Inc. the developer of the famous MMOs Asheron's Call, Dungeons & Dragons Online and The Lord of the Rings Online. On the same day, WBIT announced that the WB Games Chicago studio would be reincorporated as NetherRealm Studios and shortly afterward announced a reboot of Mortal Kombat. On June 4, WBHEG and Turbine announced that the massively multiplayer online title The Lord of the Rings Online would go free-to-play that autumn. WBIE announced 6 days later that Mortal Kombat, a reboot of the series (and considered the series' most brutal installment to date), was due for release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011. Mortal Kombat was developed by the newly renamed NetherRealm Studios, led by series creator and creative director Ed Boon. Branching out from Game Party for the Wii, WBIE attempted to leverage the Xbox 360's new full-body motion-sensing device Kinect on June 14 and revealed Game Party: In Motion for the new device, set for a November 4 release as a launch title.