Warner Bros. Discovery ‘bolstering’ DC Comics video games output following merger
The creation of Warner Bros. Discovery should be good news for DC Comics fans, especially those that wish there were more games.
Back in 2009, when Batman: Arkham Asylum was first released, there were only two Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and it wasn’t at all clear that the they were going to kickstart the most successful movie franchise of all time.
As the Arkham series went on that dominance became more evident but many suggested that while they struggled at the cinema, rival DC Comics could end up dominating the video game space instead – given the high quality of the Arkham games and the poor quality of what few Marvel tie-ins there were in the 2010s.
Needless to say that never happened, with the Injustice games being the only other high profile series to feature anyone but Batman. Although even then there hasn’t been a new Batman game since Arkham Knight in 2015. But it seems that someone at Warner Bros. has finally realised that that’s not a very sensible way of running things.
It’s been unclear how the Warner Bros. Discovery merger will affect Warner’s video game business, with early reports suggesting that at first the plan was to sell it off and then to spin it off into a separate company.
In the end though it seems Warner Bros. Games will be largely unaffected by the merger and, in terms of titles based on DC Comics properties, we should end up seeing more titles than ever.
This comes as part of a reorganisation that will see DC Comics become a ‘content vertical’ within the company, which means someone will be in charge of the whole comics-related business, rather than different divisions of Warner (movies, TV, games, etc.) picking and choosing what they want.
The idea is clearly to try and mimic the success of
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