RUMOR: AT&T seeks sale for Warner gaming unit for about $4 billion

seeing what Activision did to Blizzard... nope, EA lol... T2? maybe... but really the only company out there throwing money at studios and letting them do whatever is Microsoft, not even Sony is that permissive.

Don't worry. Tencent will probably buy them.

Oof. I guess that from those three EA is the lesser evil, at least they'll kill the studios swiftly in a somewhat humane way.

THQ Nordic...

nooo BATMAN PLS nooo. EA???!! Activision??! T2?? WB going to die and they will ruin batman for sure. EA gonna ask $10 for every batarang batman throws. Activision will make the story 2 hours and put a multiplayer mode (imagine batman with M4). T2 Rainbow batman...

Wtf? Does CD Projekt Red really work for under WB?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Warner_Bros._Interactive_Entertainment_video_games

3 most evil gaming vultures try to buy Warnes Bros...oh no

Just don't sell it.

I see people lamenting how those evil companies will certainly ruin WB. Guys, did you forget that it's already certifiably evil? That's the company that decided not to patch Batman Arkham Origins because their priority was making DLC for it. I doubt getting sold again will change them much.

Nooooo. Lego games will be ruined forever.

Please their licences incl. Harry Potter and Mortal Kombat to a better Publisher...

Couple of points here. Warner retains the IP's. Especially the most successful ones. That is a fact. The studios: they will probably keep the ones that performed well (WB Montreal, Rocksteady, NetherRealm, TT). That is speculation.

Warner won't give up cash cows like Harry Potter or Lord of The Ring or Mortal Kombat. And definitely won't give up on anything related to DC (Batman, Injustice, Scribblenauts). So what is left there?! The dormant FEAR series?! Couple of IP's no one cares?! But the big guns are safe. They are untouchable.

Warner has currently quite a few development studios. They can safely sell many of them. So the danger here is the loss of talented developers.

BUT, the IP''s are retained by Warner. They also need one or two studios for LEGO, Harry Potter and LOTR, as those are not licenses owned by them but granted by the LEGO company, J.K. Rowlands and Tolkien estate. Those are not their to sell. And they won't repeat Marvel's mistake, which sold the movie rights for some heavy hitters in the Marvel universe (Spiderman to Sony, FF4, Silver Surfer and X-Men to Fox and Namor and Hulk to Universal). So anything related to DC Comics stays with Warner.

So what is left there, except the studios and some IP's that most people never heard about or don't care about?! Not much. Do those studios are actually overpriced?! Most likely. Especially when Warner retains the IP's.