Warner Bros. Is Contemplating Licensing Its IP Like Harry Potter, DC, Recreation Of Thrones And Extra To Different Recreation Studios

A part of Warner Bros. large plan to be a extremely profitable video games writer has traditionally been getting its personal inside studios to leverage its wealth of IP. That’s why we’ve seen groups owned by WB Video games taking over franchises like DC, Harry Potter and extra.

Whereas that’s gone nice within the case of video games like Hogwarts Legacy, which was the largest sport in 2023 by way of gross sales, it’s additionally not labored out in different instances, like Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.

However video games stay essential to WB, so it received’t be giving up on its inside studios – nevertheless it’s additionally not going to be limiting itself to simply these studios. At the very least that’s what it gave the impression of throughout WB’s newest earnings name.

Chief govt officer David Zaslav and president of world streaming and video games JB Perrette each spoke about how WB is seeking to increase its video games enterprise additional, recognizing that there are many studios exterior of WB’s inside 11 that may like to work with any variety of WB’s large franchises.

“We have now 11 studios right here, and we’ve a whole lot of IP,” Zaslav mentioned. “And there’s a whole lot of curiosity amongst others in coming to benefit from a few of that IP for gaming, which we’re taking a look at.”

Perrette added “We proceed to be robust believers within the sport area, we need to proceed to see and determine how we lean into it and get larger in that area.”

Final month WB acquired MultiVersus developer Participant First Video games, a transfer that Perette singled out as a part of WB’s plan to increase the video games enterprise, particularly concerning dwell service video games.

If WB does begin to license its IP to different groups, then similar to how when Disney stopped giving EA unique rights to Star Wars video games, we could possibly be in for a renaissance of video games based mostly off the swaths of IP underneath Warner Bros.

Supply – [IGN]