Warner Bros Shutting Down Multiple Studios (Monolith Shut Down and Wonder Woman Canceled)

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Very sad about Monolith, one of the best developers out there.

Really loved Condemned and FEAR series, hopefully someone buys them before they are disbanded

That really sucks. Monolith was an old studio that made a bunch of cult classics, and managed to survive decedes of industry turmoil. Their track record was totally solid too (FEAR, Condemned, No One lives Forever, Tron 2.0, Shadow of Mordor). I know the Wonder Woman game was supposedly in development hell, but it hurts that they weren't even killed by a failed game. They're just being squashed without getting a last chance.

Unfortunate. Was interested in seeing how Wonder Woman may have turned out.

In before "woke" comments

Rich guy can walk in, ruin a great studio.

All the hard working people get sacked

Rich guy continues to fail upwards.

God I love this system so much.

Warn A Bro are a pretty bad company.

Oddly was looking forward to that Wonder Woman game, one of the DC characters of many that barely gets any time in game format.

What kind of morons are the execs of Warner? they have been making mistake after mistake since who knows how long, and obviously they always end up unscathed.

Sad to see but there was always going to be fallout from the Suicide Squad disaster. Going to be a lot of rethinking and restructuring.

Somebody call Luigi. We have a ceo to take care of.

Warner Bros continuing to be the worst run media empire out there. There's no way they're gonna survive at this rate with the current management.

Monolith lasted a decade longer than I expected it to. It's a shame that they couldn't try going back to the kind of FPS games that made a name for them. I'm just a couple blocks away from them myself ATM, I should drive by and give it one last look. Did a few volunteer game tests there over the years, nothing they were ever working on though, always stuff from other WB studios.

Good news is there's a lot of studios not far from there, like Halo Studios, Bungie, Sucker Punch, hopefully they'll find work soon.

Man this industry is just brutal

Damn, that's rough. Not sure why WB didn't stick with its cash cow Lego games.

That's what happens when you spend 100 million on a game and it's nowhere close to releasing.

Sad to see though. I enjoyed Fear and Shadow of Mordor.

So long Monolith and the nemesis system.... Another fantastic new element to spice up our games buried.... It joins blade mode in metal gear rising as amazing gameplay augments that we'll likely never see again.

Screw this studio. Don't care. Survived off the utter mediocrity of the Arkham combat system. F.E.A.R. was forever ago, and honestly way too easy with all the slow motion.

God damn Warner Bros. They fucking suck as a game publisher. I'm very sad Monolith is shutdown. Blood, No One Lives Forever and F.E.A.R. 1 were amazing shooters and now a beloved company is gone. The gaming industry is a cruel place to work in.

Everyone who worked on those games left years ago. You shouldn't care.

True but it's still sad to see a company that has been around for 30 years to end up being shutdown.

How many studios has Nintendo closed? Seriously?

When Nintendo was doing badly the CEO took a pay cut.

**** these western conglomerates. **** Embracer, **** WB, **** Take Two

Gamers should be celebrating, after all they want the game industry to fail. 🙃

@R4gn4r0k: If there is going to be another video game crash, it will start by a Western company, just like the last crash more than 40 years ago. It will not begin from a Japanese company.

When the late Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata took a pay cut, it was half his yearly salary and that salary is small compared to the salaries that most Western gaming CEOs get.

Kinda on the fence. On one hand, you have WB suffering after gate-keeping something like the Nemesis system, but also devs getting closed down. As for Wonder Woman, don't much care as i've seen nothing of the game.

It's a bummer, but it makes sense.

Monolith Productions, the folks behind FEAR, Condemned, and other FPS games, have already left the studio. Since then, their RPGs, especially the Middle-Earth games, have been, well, mediocre at best. These days, they're like BioWare, overrated by their past glory.

Maybe their Wonder Woman would've been as disappointing as last year's Suicide Squad game.

I am NOT surprised nor shocked hearing Monolith is dead. The writing was on the wall with these guys and even NRS are facing massive drops. And as for Wonder Woman game, Wonder Woman herself just can't catch a break. The best Wonder Woman she ever had was that 70s show, but even Max removed it and I don't think it streams anywhere. DCAU sidelined her to a supporting role when she deserves her own show.

Also James Gunn seems to be dragging his feet on her. He's out the gate with Batman and Superman for the DCU, but where Wonder Woman? I know he said he's looking into doing his own gaming division on supporting more DC characters such as a future Superman, Flash and more Batman games. If true, he's got a lot to prove. I'm not even a hardcore Wonder Woman fan, but any time I try to get into her, DC botch the experience, I was hoping this Wonder Woman game would be similar to God of War like the experience but I guess we'll never know.

I sense some harbored negative feelings.

Shit management has ruined so many studios and fucked over so many developers. This needs to change. Let developers make games that they actually want to work on and don't force them to make games designed around predatory monetization and live service garbage. Stop chasing trends and focus on making good games. These companies are self destructing and driving all the talent away.

Monolith gone from making masterpiece like FEAR to wonder woman game that got cancelled.

they never good since FEAR 1.

So bizarre, because wasn't Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War both successful titles? I enjoyed the crap out of those games as well. Man, so bummed.

End of an era for sure. :(

I hope Rocksteady doesn't get shutdown next. Sure, Suicide Squad was a disaster, but they didn't want to make that shit. They should be given a chance to go back to what they are good at.

F you, Zaslav...