Warner Bros. has confirmed that it is cancelled the Marvel Lady sport that’d lengthy been within the works at Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions. As has sadly turn out to be a norm for the the video games business in 2025, that information has come alongside the closure of Monolith and two different studios beneath the WB Video games umbrella – Multiversus dev Participant First Video games and Warner Bros. Video games San Diego.
These strikes, first reported by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, have since been confirmed by Warner itself in an announcement offered to Polygon.
“We have now needed to make some very tough choices to construction our growth studios and investments round constructing the perfect video games doable with our key franchises — Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC and Sport of Thrones,” a spokesperson for the corporate mentioned, “After cautious consideration, we’re closing three of our growth studios – Monolith Productions, Participant First Video games and Warner Bros. Video games San Diego. It is a strategic change in path and never a mirrored image of those groups or the expertise that consists inside them.”
They added concerning the cancellation of Marvel Lady, which a earlier Bloomberg report had famous was “struggling to coalesce”, that the “hope was to offer gamers and followers the best high quality expertise doable for the enduring character, and sadly that is not doable inside our strategic priorities”.
Polygon has additionally shared sections of an electronic mail JB Perrette – Warner Bros. Discovery’s CEO and president of world streaming and video games – reportedly despatched to employees about these closures and the cancellation. The exec wrote that latest releases not doing in addition to WB Video games had hoped has led the corporate to resolve to refocus on “fewer however larger franchises” going forwards, because it goals to “regain our credibility and swagger at producing nice video games”.
“Getting our swagger again occurs one prime quality sport launch at a time, and our monetary credibility will get rebuilt one fiscal quarter at a time,” Perrette added, “delivering what we mentioned we’d ship, and no massive detrimental surprises.”
As of writing, it is unclear precisely what number of jobs have been impacted by the closures. Perrette famous that WB hopes to “repurpose our expertise the place doable”, however quite a lot of ex-Monolith staffers – together with systemic narrative designer Nathan Savant and UX design director Mila Pavlin – have posted on BlueSky that they are now in search of work following the closure.
