WB Games Will Release a New “Unannounced IP Game” in 2025

While the in-development Wonder Woman game at Monolith was cancelled in light of the studio’s closure back in February, it looks like Warner Bros. Games is now gearing up to release a new game. Spotted by social media platform X user Timur222, the LinkedIn profile for WB Games Boston’s Brandon Maraia indicates a new game is being worked on, and will be out later this year.

While not too many details have become clear through Maraia’s profile so far, the fact that the game is slated for a 2025 release means that it has likely been under development for multiple years already. Maraia has been working as the Game Design Lead for this title for two years so far. Maraia has also listed various aspects of the game that he was in charge of, including the first-time user experience, narrative, quests, and player customisation.

It is worth noting that the description just indicates that it is a new game with an unannounced IP. This likely means that the title is part of a pre-existing IP, and will be an adaptation of one of several properties owned by Warner Bros. Were it a fresh game in a brand new franchise, the wording would have likely better accentuated this fact.

Alongside Monolith, Warner Bros. had announced the closure of quite a few studios earlier this year, including MultiVersus developer Player First Games, as well as WB Games San Diego. The company said that the decision to close these studios was made with “careful consideration.”

In a letter to its shareholders last month, Warner Bros. spoke about the plan going forward for its game development studios under the WB Games banner would be to focus more on making games based on “proven IP and games from proven, world-class studios.”

The letter echoed statements made by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who spoke about focusing efforts on the four major IPs owned by the company: Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, Game of Thrones, and Batman.

“We’re through some of the worst — and it hasn’t been pretty on the gaming business — but we have four games that are really powerful and have a real constituency that love them, and we’re going to focus on those four primarily,” said Zaslav back in November. “We’re going to go away from trying to launch 10, 12, 15, 20 different games. I think we have a real chance now with focus to have the gaming business be steadier.”

“We have four strong and profitable game franchises with loyal, global fans: Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC, in particular Batman. We are focusing our development efforts on those core franchises, with proven studios to improve our success ratio.”

While Monolith Productions has been shut down, former executive from WB Games, Laura Fryer, revealed a few details about her time working with the studio as it launched titles like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. In a lengthy video, Fryer revealed quite a few details, including the fact that the game’s much-loved Nemesis system came about because the studio didn’t want players to be “done” with a game and then sell it off to someone else.