With Netflix having pulled out of its acquisition deal for Warner Bros. Discovery in light of Paramount Skydance offering a larger amount of money to buy the company, it looks like the Warner Bros. Games division is already facing negative effects. WB Games Montreal has seemingly been hit with lay-offs, with a number of developers for the company taking to LinkedIn to confirm this.
Among those affected by these lay-offs are Gotham Knights level designer Camille Olivier Paquette, lead scriptwriter on Gotham Knights and associate narrative director on Wonder Woman Ceri Young, and associate producer Nicolas Pereira-Poisson.
“Today was my last day at Warner Brother Games Montreal and I am now looking for an opportunity to continue my career as Level Designer in the industry,” wrote Paquette in a LinkedIn post over the weekend. On around the same day, Young also announced her departure through a post. “Hey all! As of today I’m looking for a new role in the games industry,” she wrote.
While Pereira-Poisson hasn’t outright made any posts announcing his departure from the company, a quick look at his LinkedIn profile reveals that his tenure at WB Games Montreal as a full-time associate producer came to an end this month. Before this, he had worked on the ill-fated Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, as well as three unannounced games.
While neither Warner Bros. Discovery, nor Paramount Skydance have made any statement regarding these lay-offs, Motive Studio’s experience design director Eric Bellefeuille too to LinkedIn to write his own.
“Layoffs are never easy, and my thoughts go out to the incredibly talented developers affected by the recent changes at Warner Bros. Games Montréal and Electronic Arts,” he wrote. “To anyone impacted, if you need support, introductions, or simply someone to help you expand your network, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Our industry is built on collaboration and community, and I’d be more than happy to help however I can.”
“You’re not alone in this moment. There are many of us who value the skills, creativity, and passion you bring to game development. Let’s stay connected.”
Netflix was originally going to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal valued at around $82.7 billion as of December 2025. However, Paramount Skydance offered its own deal, valued at $111 billion. This led to Netflix walking away from its initial deal and referring to Paramount’s offer as being a “superior proposal”. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters went on to note that countering Paramount’s offer made the deal no longer “financially attractive.”
“The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval,” said the CEOs in a statement. “However, we’ve always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance’s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.”
In another statement, Sarandos would go on to note that Netflix pulled back from the deal because “We definitely wanted this asset. We didn’t need it.” He went on to refer to Warner Bros. Discovery as a company that would have been nice for Netflix to have bought. Despite this, however, things are looking up for Netflix, with the $2.8 billion it got from Paramount Skydance as part of the deal’s breakup fee is being reinvested into the streaming giant.
