Video Game Developer Shutdown Watch Thread - Game Company Death Pool

[Breadbassket]

Warner Bros. is shutting down three game studios and they are as follows:
Monolith Productions:
Monolith, based in Kirkland, Washington, had been making video games since 1994 including cult classics such as The Operative: No One Lives Forever and F.E.A.R. In 2014, it received critical acclaim for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an action game set in The Lord of the Rings universe.

Player First Games:
Player First Games was purchased by Warner Bros. last July, just before the release of its sole game, MultiVersus. Last month, Warner Bros. said it was shutting down that title following poor performance.

Warner Bros. Games San Diego:
Not really sure what they were doing but they may of been a support studio.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Monolith Productions:
Monolith, based in Kirkland, Washington, had been making video games since 1994 including cult classics such as The Operative: No One Lives Forever and F.E.A.R. In 2014, it received critical acclaim for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an action game set in The Lord of the Rings universe.

What did Monolith do to deserve this?

 

[Love Is Blue]

What did Monolith do to deserve this?

made fear 2

 

[Terror Sandwich]

What did Monolith do to deserve this?

8 years developing a capeshit game with female protagonist and nothing to show for it.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

Yeah, I got on to talk about Monolith.

It's been 8 years since their last game, it's been like 4 years since they announced Wonder Woman. We hadn't even gotten a fucking screenshot.

They patented the Nemesis system for abso-fucking-lutely nothing. Good riddance.

 

[TwinPeaksEnjoyer]

I hope Ubisoft is next.

 

[Breadbassket]

Yeah, I got on to talk about Monolith.

It's been 8 years since their last game, it's been like 4 years since they announced Wonder Woman. We hadn't even gotten a fucking screenshot.

They patented the Nemesis system for abso-fucking-lutely nothing. Good riddance.

Monolith also had the LithTech game engine which I guess is just dead now?

 

[Endless Torment]

8 years developing a capeshit game with female protagonist and nothing to show for it.

While I love to shit on studios I highly doubt they were incapable of making another LOTR game, but with Wonder Woman paint.
I imagine they probably had issues with monetization because that was a big fuck up regarding Shadow of War and I imagine the shakeup regarding DC games and Warner Bros didn't help.

Yeah, I got on to talk about Monolith.

It's been 8 years since their last game, it's been like 4 years since they announced Wonder Woman. We hadn't even gotten a fucking screenshot.

They patented the Nemesis system for abso-fucking-lutely nothing. Good riddance.

Monolith doesn't own it Warner Bros does so it's not like them dying solves anything.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

While I love to shit on studios I highly doubt they were incapable of making another LOTR game, but with Wonder Woman paint.
I imagine they probably had issues with monetization because that was a big fuck up regarding Shadow of War and I imagine the shakeup regarding DC games and Warner Bros didn't help.

Monolith doesn't own it Warner Bros does so it's not like them dying solves anything.

Didn't say it did, just saying WB patenting it has amounted to fuck all.

From what I've been reading, WB cancelled some new IP they were working on for Wonder Woman, and a lot of the people who were responsible for the Mordor games left and now they're making a Black Panther game?

So pretty much, like all studios now, the good people fucked off and there was never any hope of them producing anything good anyways.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Warner Bros. is shutting down three game studios and they are as follows:
Monolith Productions:
Monolith, based in Kirkland, Washington, had been making video games since 1994 including cult classics such as The Operative: No One Lives Forever and F.E.A.R. In 2014, it received critical acclaim for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an action game set in The Lord of the Rings universe.

Player First Games:
Player First Games was purchased by Warner Bros. last July, just before the release of its sole game, MultiVersus. Last month, Warner Bros. said it was shutting down that title following poor performance.

Warner Bros. Games San Diego:
Not really sure what they were doing but they may of been a support studio.

I think Warner Bros. might be ending their gaming division. They have nothing on their slate for next year and beyond now.

 

[Breadbassket]

I think Warner Bros. might be ending their gaming division. They have nothing on their slate for next year and beyond now.

They are shrinking but I don't think they'll get rid of it altogether. Warner Bros. still has Netherrealm Studios (Mortal Kombat), Avalanche Software (Hogwarts Legacy), TT Games (Lego Games), and WB Games Boston (Dungeons & Dragons Online/Lord Of The Rings Online). Netherrealms honestly though is in a shaky position considering how their most recent title did and I wouldn't be surprised if Rocksteady and some other minor studios like WB Games New York and WB Games Montreal get shutdown.

 

[Dead Lion]

BioWare is definitely getting the axe sooner rather than later. EA ripped SWTOR from them last year (that game still, somehow, makes a nice chunk of change for them).

I think ME5 might release sometime before the end of the 2026 fiscal year the latest, and unless magically it’s really good that’s the end of them.

Also to add a candidate i think Tencent might purge some of their smaller studios as time goes on. As of right now they own multiple studios that compete with each other (I.e from my back yard of co-op games, Fatshark and 10 chambers). The market is shrinking so it’s not sustainable to maintain competing products.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

As much as I look forward to the Ubisoft IMPLOSION or the Bioware Blowout.
I think obsidian is next.
Ubisoft is going to shit itself all over the rug. in 2026 though or the end of 2025. I think we'll see Obsidian get reduced or closed by october.

 

[whatever I feel like]

As much as I look forward to the Ubisoft IMPLOSION or the Bioware Blowout.
I think obsidian is next.
Ubisoft is going to shit itself all over the rug. in 2026 though or the end of 2025. I think we'll see Obsidian get reduced or closed by october.

Shear lunacy, they're the only MS studio that actually releases games, and with a smaller team size too. I can name three or four obvious MS targets ahead of them in the slaughterhouse line, easy.

 

[Foltest]

Sad news about Monolith.
A studio with a great history of games (and fear 2).
Fuck you WB

 

[Love Is Blue]

Sad news about Monolith.
A studio with a great history of games (and fear 2).
Fuck you WB

shogo 2 never ever

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Shear lunacy, they're the only MS studio that actually releases games, and with a smaller team size too. I can name three or four obvious MS targets ahead of them in the slaughterhouse line, easy.

Tango Gameworks was doing great as a smaller team...
Yet they're gone too.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

all this talk about Monolith and no mention of Blood.

SONUVABITCH MUST PAY

 

[Love Is Blue]

all this talk about Monolith and no mention of Blood.

SONUVABITCH MUST PAY

the only caleb zoomers know is Caleb hammer frfr no cap on God sheesh

 

[whatever I feel like]

Tango Gameworks was doing great as a smaller team...
Yet they're gone too.

Their games never turned a profit, also Krafton ended up saving them anyway.