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Open-world Wonder Woman and Lord of the Rings studio shut down alongside MultiVersus dev, Warner Bros insists it wants to focus on DC even as it kills a DC game
Wonder Woman and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions, MultiVersus developer Player First Games, and mobile-focused studio WB San Diego have all been shut down. The Wonder Woman game has been canceled altogether.
The news first broke via Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier on Bluesky. A more formal report from the outlet is forthcoming. Reached for comment by GamesRadar+, Warner Bros. confirmed the news in a statement which was also shared with other journalists.
"We have had to make some very difficult decisions to structure our development studios and investments around building the best games possible with our key franchises - Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC and Game of Thrones," WB says in its statement. "After careful consideration, we are closing three of our development studios - Monolith Productions, Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games San Diego. This is a strategic change in direction and not a reflection of these teams or the talent that consists within them. The development of Monolith's Wonder Woman videogame will not move forward."
The end of Player First Games is perhaps sadly unsurprising, as its big project MultiVersus is officially shutting down later this year after a big relaunch that failed to get much traction outside of the game's dedicated playerbase. MultiVersus originally launched in July 2022 as a Super Smash Bros.-style platform fighting game featuring characters from a wide array of Warner Bros. properties.
Monolith was founded in 1994, and produced numerous cult classics like Blood, No One Lives Forever, FEAR, and Condemned: Criminal Origins over the years. The company was acquired by WB in 2004, and prior to the Wonder Woman game, had met with critical and commercial success with Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
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