Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a Lego action adventure game developed by Traveller's Tales. The game was published by Warner Bros. Games on...
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Warner Bros. Games is the video game publishing division of Warner Bros. Discovery, headquartered in Burbank, California. The division develops and publishes titles across a group of owned studios while drawing on a deep library of owned and licensed properties, including DC Comics, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and LEGO. After a company-wide reset in 2025, Warner Bros. Games narrowed its focus to four core franchises, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and DC, and that strategy now shapes the label's release slate.
Warner Bros. entered the games business in earnest in 2004 with the formation of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, later shortened to WB Games and then Warner Bros. Games. Rather than building studios from nothing, the company grew mostly through acquisition. Monolith Productions, the team behind F.E.A.R. and the Middle-earth games, joined in 2004. TT Games, home of the LEGO series, was acquired in 2007. Turbine, the online studio behind The Lord of the Rings Online, came aboard in 2010.
The same period brought the pieces that became Warner Bros. Games' biggest names. When Midway Games collapsed, Warner Bros. picked up the Mortal Kombat team and the studio was rebuilt as NetherRealm Studios in 2010 under Ed Boon. Warner Bros. also took control of Rocksteady Studios around the launch of Batman: Arkham Asylum, and in 2017 acquired Avalanche Software from Disney, the studio that would go on to make Hogwarts Legacy. That mix of licensed blockbusters and original IP has defined the publisher ever since.
Developed by NetherRealm Studios, Mortal Kombat is the flagship fighting franchise and a rare Warner Bros. Games property that began as a game rather than a licensed brand. Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019 and Mortal Kombat 1 in 2023 continued the series tradition of cinematic story modes and brutal fatalities. NetherRealm also built the Injustice series, which pits DC heroes and villains against each other and remains the studio's other major pillar alongside Mortal Kombat.
Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham trilogy set the benchmark for superhero games. Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight combined stealth, free-flow combat, and a faithful take on Gotham that few licensed games have matched. Beyond Arkham, Warner Bros. Games has published a run of DC titles including Injustice, Warner Bros. Games Montreal's Gotham Knights, and Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. That last release in 2024 was a costly misfire, and it pushed the company to rethink how it handles DC going forward.
I loved the Arkham games. Given how Arkham Knight ended, I think Gotham Knights should have been in the same universe, not its own. It would have had to be a different story, but given how it came out around the same time as the Gotham Knights show, that probably wouldn't have been a bad thing. The Court of Owls' role in both was very similar.
Developed by Avalanche Software, Hogwarts Legacy was the best-selling game of 2023 and moved more than 20 million copies. Set in the Wizarding World of the 1800s, it handed Warner Bros. Games a major Harry Potter hit that did not lean on the film timeline. Harry Potter now sits among the four franchises the publisher is building its future around.
Monolith Productions built the Middle-earth games, Shadow of Mordor in 2014 and Shadow of War in 2017, around the Nemesis system, a feature that generated unique orc enemies who remembered past encounters and climbed the ranks between fights. The Nemesis system was widely praised and patented by Warner Bros., which is part of why nothing quite like it has turned up elsewhere. With Monolith closed in 2025, the future of both the studio and any follow-up remains uncertain.
Traveller's Tales, part of TT Games, develops the LEGO series in partnership with Warner Bros. Games, adapting everything from Star Wars to Marvel to DC to Harry Potter. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga in 2022 was the biggest entry in years and proved the format still had room to grow. The LEGO games remain a dependable family franchise across every property they adapt.
Lego games are a guilty pleasure of mine, especially the super hero ones. It doesn't matter if it is Marvel or DC, I love just going around as different heroes beating up bad guys. The Avengers one was especially fun, when they took the voicelines from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and added them to the game. Having the game characters sound like their movie counterparts was definitely interesting.
Game of Thrones became a Warner Bros. Games priority as part of the 2025 reset. The action RPG Game of Thrones: Kingsroad launched in 2025, and the publisher has since announced Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, a real-time strategy game headed to PC, and Game of Thrones: Dragon Fire, a mobile title. The push shows how central the Westeros license has become to the company's plans alongside DC, Harry Potter, and Mortal Kombat.
Warner Bros. Games runs its development through a set of internal studios. NetherRealm Studios in Chicago handles Mortal Kombat and Injustice. Rocksteady Studios in London built the Batman: Arkham games and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Avalanche Software in Salt Lake City made Hogwarts Legacy. TT Games in the United Kingdom produces the LEGO series through its Traveller's Tales development arm. Warner Bros. Games Montreal has handled DC projects including Gotham Knights and Batman: Arkham Origins, while Warner Bros. Games New York oversees shared technology and services across the label.
The studio roster shrank sharply in 2025. Warner Bros. closed Monolith Productions and cancelled its in-development Wonder Woman game, shut down Player First Games not long after bringing the MultiVersus team in-house, and closed Warner Bros. Games San Diego. Those closures were the clearest sign that the company was pulling back from a wide release schedule to concentrate on a handful of franchises.
Longtime Warner Bros. Games president David Haddad departed in early 2025, and in June 2025 the division reorganized around its four core franchises. Rather than a single overall chief, three studio heads were promoted to senior vice president roles reporting to J.B. Perrette, Warner Bros. Discovery's CEO of global streaming and games. Yves Lachance of Warner Bros. Games Montreal took oversight of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, NetherRealm's Shaun Himmerick took Mortal Kombat and DC, and Steven Flenory of Warner Bros. Games New York took central technology and services.
The reset followed a rough stretch. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League reportedly cost the company around $200 million and shut down its live service within a year, and the platform fighter MultiVersus closed after failing to hold an audience. Leadership framed the new approach plainly, moving away from launching a dozen or more titles a year toward a smaller, steadier slate built on franchises players already know.
Warner Bros. Games is not being sold on its own, but its parent company is changing hands. After a bidding war that ran through late 2025 and early 2026, Warner Bros. Discovery agreed to a roughly $111 billion all-cash acquisition by Paramount Skydance at $31 per share, beating out an earlier Netflix offer. The deal covers all of Warner Bros. Discovery, which means the games division would move under Paramount Skydance ownership once it closes.
As of August 2026 the acquisition is working through regulatory approval and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026. The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority cleared the deal in early August, following approvals from the European Commission and several other regulators. What the change means for Warner Bros. Games day to day is still unclear, though the stated plan to concentrate on Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and DC is expected to carry through the transition.
The near-term slate is lighter than in past years, by design. For 2026 Warner Bros. Games has confirmed LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, a new entry in the LEGO Batman line, along with the Game of Thrones mobile title Dragon Fire and the PC strategy game Game of Thrones: War for Westeros. These fit the plan to lead with the four core franchises while the bigger projects come together.
Leadership has pointed to 2027 and 2028 as the years the flagship franchises return in force. A new Batman project from Rocksteady has been rumored, DC development now sits under NetherRealm's oversight, and both the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones teams are working on longer roadmaps. After a couple of hard years, the publisher is betting that fewer, franchise-driven releases will steady the business.
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