warner s previous video game publishing division see time warner interactive . wb games inc. type division of warner bros. industry interactive entertainment computer and video games founded june 23 1993 ; 23 years ago 1993 06 23 as warner bros. consumer products headquarters burbank california u.s. key people diane nelson president & cco david haddad president products batman arkham series lego series f.e.a.r. seriesmortal kombat series revenue us 2.2 billion 2015 1 owner time warner parent warner bros. subsidiaries rocksteady studios monolith productions netherrealm studios tt games wb games montr al turbine wb games san francisco website community.wbgames.com wb games inc. doing business as warner bros. interactive entertainment wbie is a division of warner bros. and a leading publisher developer licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all platforms including console handheld mobile and pc based gaming for both internal and third party game titles . contents 1 history 2 studios 2.1 current 2.2 defunct 3 parent organizations 4 list of video games 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit in 1995 warner bros. interactive licensed out their first game property under their current name batman forever to acclaim entertainment . they continued to license games based on cartoon network dc comics hanna barbera looney tunes and various warner bros. film properties over the years to such video game publishers as ubisoft electronic arts infogrames and thq . in 2003 they co published their first video game looney tunes back in action . electronic arts was the other publisher of the game . 2 in 2004 warner bros. acquired developer monolith productions . 3 in 2005 the wb games label was created . the first game that monolith developed in conjunction with warner bros. entertainment was the matrix online which sega helped co publish . warner bros. also helped distribute both enter the matrix and the matrix path of neo for the matrix series . in 2006 they bought a 10.3 % stake in sci entertainment the owner of eidos interactive . that same year they released their first self published title with no co publishers justice league heroes which was distributed by eidos on the xbox . in 2007 their goal was for a five year plan to expand in the video game industry which includes the acquisition of studios for internal development and the creation of a studio wb games in the seattle area that will run all the games published and developed by the company ; 4 starting with the acquisition of tt games that same year for the amount of gb 100 million . 5 in april 2008 they increased their stake to 35 % gaining distribution right of all eidos games in the united states canada and mexico . 6 on december 15 2008 right after sci changed their name to eidos plc warner acquired a total of 10 million shares of the company raising its owned amount to 19.92 % after an agreement which prevented time warner from acquiring more shares was scrapped one month earlier . 7 on january 28 2009 the hollywood reporter reported the deal also gave warner the rights of the tomb raider film series 8 previously owned by paramount pictures . on february 12 2009 sqex ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of square enix announced a takeover offer worth gb 84.3 million 32p per share for eidos plc 9 which was backed by warner bros. as shareholder . 10 square enix eventually took over the company april 22 2009 and later changed the name to square enix europe . warner bros. announced on february 4 2009 it had purchased independent developer snowblind studios . 11 terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition serves to strengthen the publisher s internal development effort . in 2009 warner purchased most of the assets of american publisher midway games operating under chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for us 49 million . the assets purchased include midway s studio in chicago 12 and surreal software resulting in the ownership to the rights to the joust mortal kombat the suffering spy hunter and wheelman series . 13 midway games had previously worked with warner bros. on several games including mortal kombat vs. dc universe . midway intended to hold an auction of its assets on june 29 2009 but no other bids were placed . on july 10 2009 the sale to warner was completed for approximately us 49 million . 14 in the process wb games became the owner of the blitz the league series . on july 28 2009 midway s mortal kombat team was rebranded wb games chicago by its new owners 15 and in 2010 was merged with midway games to form netherrealm studios . 16 on january 13 2010 it was announced that warner bros. interactive entertainment will produce and have exclusive rights to sesame street video games starting in fall 2010 with elmo s a to zoo adventure and cookie s counting carnival . 17 18 on february 23 2010 warner bros. home entertainment group announced it had acquired majority stake in rocksteady studios an independent development studio based in london . rocksteady and warner had previously worked together in batman arkham asylum and batman arkham city and as been announced to work in the future with more warner bros. licenses . 19 on march 22 2010 warner bros. interactive is the latest videogame company to open a studio in quebec . current president martin tremblay will lead the new montreal studio which will be known as wb games montr al. this new studio will gradually grow to include more than 300 people by the end of 2015 . tremblay also said that warner will open another studio in another city soon . martin tremblay told us that the new montreal studio will focus on creating games based on the dc comics license . 20 on april 9 2010 warner bros has announced it will publish a third installment to its f.e.a.r. series in fall of this year . 21 warner bros. home entertainment group announced on april 20 2010 the acquisition of turbine inc. the developer of the famous company mmos asheron s call dungeons & dragons online and lord of the rings online . on june 4 2010 warner bros. home entertainment group and turbine inc. have said that the massively multiplayer online title lord of the rings online is to become a free to play game this autumn . 22 warner bros. interactive entertainment announces on june 10 2010 that mortal kombat the most brutal installment of the landmark fighting game to date was due for release on the playstation 3 computer entertainment system and xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from microsoft in 2011 . mortal kombat was developed by the newly renamed netherrealm studios led by mortal kombat creator and creative director ed boon . 23 branching out from game party for the wii warner bros. interactive entertainment set its sights on the xbox 360 s newest piece of technology on june 14 2010 revealed game party in motion for kinect . arriving november 4 as a launch title in motion for microsoft s full body motion sensing technology brings sports and arcade games to the hardware . 24 after kevin tsujihara became chairman and ceo of warner bros. entertainment he promoted diane nelson to the post of president and chief content officer of warner bros. interactive entertainment . 25 26 in january 2015 david haddad was named executive vice president and general manager of the company . 27 in october 2015 he was promoted to president . 28 studios edit current edit monolith productions in kirkland washington founded in 1994 acquired in 2004 netherrealm studios in chicago founded as midway games chicago in 1988 acquired from midway games on july 27 2009 and renamed in 2010 rocksteady studios in london founded in 2004 and majority stake acquired in february 2010 tt games in knutsford england founded in 2005 acquired november 8 2007 traveller s tales in knutsford england founded in 1989 reorganized as subsidiary of tt games in 2005 tt fusion in wilmslow england founded in 2005 as embryonic studios reorganized as division by tt games in 2007 turbine in needham massachusetts founded in 1994 acquired in 2010 wb games montr al in montreal founded in 2010 20 wb games san francisco in san francisco founded in 2013 29 defunct edit snowblind studios in kirkland washington founded in 1997 acquired in 2009 . merged into monolith productions in 2012 . surreal software in kirkland washington founded in 1995 acquired from midway games on july 27 2009 . merged into monolith productions in 2010 . time warner interactive founded in 1993 acquired from midway games west on 1997 . parent organizations edit 1993 2001 ; 2003 present time warner 2001 2003 aol time warner list of video games edit main article list of warner bros. interactive entertainment video games see also edit list of batman video games list of video games based on dc comics list of looney tunes games list of superman video games list of tom and jerry video games list of tiny toon adventures video games references edit this section includes a list of 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