In March, AT&T announced a $43 billion deal to spin off WarnerMedia and merge it with Discovery to create a “premier, standalone global entertainment company” aimed at competing with networks like Netflix and Disney+. As part of that process, it said that some parts of game publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment would be sold off, although details about which parts would stay, and which would go, were not provided.
More recently, however, WBIE confirmed that two of the best-known studios in its stable, NetherRealm and TT Games, are not on the block. Following a report by the Xbox Two Podcast, which claimed to have seen documents indicating that both studios were no longer “in the scope” of Warner’s future operations and were thus among the studios being dangled for potential buyers, a WBIE rep told TheGamer that it simply wasn’t true.
“I can confirm NetherRealm Studios and TT Games will continue to remain a part of Warner Bros. Games, and all are included in the Warner…