Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN and other streaming and studio businesses, said Tuesday it is putting itself up for sale
Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale (also includes WB Games)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/warner-bros-discovery-for-sale-rcna238857
19 Comments
ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 322d
As a sustainable video game entity, WB games would be better suited in just about anyone else's hands. WB has tried to sell off its games division in the past, but they've spent the better part of two decades making sure that their game studios produced nothing except for tie-ins to their movie and comic book businesses. I was told straight to my face at a PAX years ago that the pitch process under WB starts with a game idea and ends with, "Cool, now make it Batman," or "Cool, now make it Lord of the Rings." Then when they tried to divest themselves of games, not only did they have no IP to sell outside of old Midway properties, they also thought the new buyer would love to keep paying licensing fees to WB for the properties attached to these gaming franchises. Bunch of geniuses over there.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 322d
How bout they put that nemesis system up for sale
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 322d
This shit should not be patentable in the first place
fxleak@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 321d
But if corporations couldn't patent it, then nobody would make it!
Don't you know that we have copyright and patent laws to thank for why we have any art or entertainment in the first place!?
Without them, we'd have nothing.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 321d
I don't think the other extreme is any better.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
For real
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 322d
So which right-wing oligarch gets this one?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 322d
The rumor a few weeks ago was Paramount/Skydance... you know... this Paramount:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bari-weiss-editor-in-chief-cbs-news-paramount-the-free-press/
In case you don't know who that is:
(34 minutes, NSFW)
https://youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 321d
Tl;dr/dw?
Edit: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 321d
Paramount/Skydance put Bari Weiss in charge of CBS News.
Weiss is known to be problematic for a variety of reasons:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/bari-weiss-cbs
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 322d
The corporate media landscape is already too consolidated; any further mergers should be blocked, and existing oligopolies split up instead.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 322d
Ooooor we can let the same right wing oligarchs purchase it and further consolidate their total control of information leading the world into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape
normalexit@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 321d
I bet the Saudis have their eye on this one too.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 321d
I don’t want to contribute to the mountains of AI slip on the internet, so instead I’ll just prompt the reader’s brain to imagine a picture of Bugs Bunny in Arabian robes, eating a carrot nonchalantly, with the caption “eh, wahabi ‘doc?”
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 321d
This is what happens when you go full 'reality' and abandon your core products.
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 322d
fxleak@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 321d
They see the writing on the walls. Their IPs can't carry them forever, especially now that the manchildren who like them are approaching their 40s.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
I honestly thought WB games had already been shut down.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
Pulling for Disney:
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 1 pts · 322d
New Dorlock Holmes mystery game when