Creator / Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (also known as Warner Bros. Games) is a Video Game publishing company owned by Warner Bros., part of WB's home video publishing arm Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

The company's roots date back to 1993, when Warner Bros. parent Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery) formed Time Warner Interactive to primarily publish home console ports of games developed by Atari Games (the former arcade division of Atari, Inc.), which Time Warner had a minority interest in for years before selling off the unit to Midway Games in 1996. In the process, Warner Bros. formed WBIE to serve as a licensor for games based off their properties, and operated separately from Time Warner Interactive.

In the early 2000s, after many years of serving as a licensor, WBIE opted to jump into full-time video game publishing, and in 2004 the studio purchased Monolith Productions, their first of what would be many acquisitions of game studios to come. The acquisition allowed Monolith to develop The Matrix Online, WB's first game publication (with Sega). They would eventually go on to acquire Traveller's Tales in 2007, taking their lucrative LEGO game franchise with them. Despite these acquisitions, the studio continued to mostly publish games based off their properties, instead of creating their own dedicated game franchises.

That all changed in 2009, when WB shocked much of the video game world and announced it had won a bid to acquire most of the in-house assets of the bankrupt Midway Games, including their flagship cash cow Mortal Kombat and their prestigious back catalog of arcade games including Rampage and Gauntlet, as well as Williams Electronics' arcade archives and the aforementioned Atari Games library, marking a reunion of sorts for that back catalog. With a strong slate of video game properties now under WB's wing, WBIE started to be taken seriously as a player in the game industry.

Today, WBIE is one of the most successful mid-size video game publishers in the industry, ranking third in terms of mid-size publisher market share in 2013 behind Capcom and Konami. WBIE continues to serve as a licensor for its movie properties to other game developers.

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Video games published by this company with TV Tropes pages:

• Back 4 Blood
• Bastion (Xbox 360, PC, Unix/Linux, Macintosh, iPhone/iPod)
• Batman: Arkham Series
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
  • Batman: Arkham City (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
  • Batman: Arkham Origins(PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
  • Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate
  • Batman: Arkham Knight (PlayStation 4, Xbox One)
  • Batman Arkham Underworld
  • Batman: Arkham VR
• Cars 3: Driven to Win
• Condemned: Criminal Origins (with Sega)
  • Condemned 2: Bloodshot
• DC Universe Online (with Daybreak Game Company)
• Dying Light
• F.E.A.R. (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC)
• Gauntlet
• Gotham City Impostors (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
• Gotham Knights (2022)
• Guardians Of Middle Earth (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
• Harry Potter games, since 2018 via its Portkey Games label.
  • Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
  • Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
  • Hogwarts Legacy
• Hitman 2
  • Hitman: Absolution
  • Hitman: Blood Money
• Infinite Crisis
• Injustice series:
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us (WiiU, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
  • Injustice 2 (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One)
• Justice League Heroes
  • Justice League Heroes: The Flash
• LEGO Adaptation Game
  • LEGO Batman Trilogy
  • LEGO Battles
  • LEGO City Undercover
  • LEGO DC Super-Villains
  • LEGO Dimensions
  • LEGO Harry Potter
  • LEGO The Incredibles
  • LEGO Jurassic World
  • LEGO The Lord of the Rings
  • LEGO Marvel's Avengers
  • LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
  • LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2
  • The LEGO Movie Videogame
  • LEGO Star Wars
  • LEGO Universe
  • LEGO Worlds
• Lollipop Chainsaw (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
• Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor
• Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck
• The Lord of the Rings Online (formerly; rights have been transferred to Daybreak Game Company as of 2016)
  • The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest
• Mad Max
• Man of Steel
• The Matrix: Path of Neo
• The Matrix Online
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of War
• Mortal Kombat:
  • Mortal Kombat 9 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita)
  • Mortal Kombat X (PlayStation 4, Xbox One)
  • Mortal Kombat 11 (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch)
  • Mortal Kombat 1 (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch)
• MultiVersus
• Overlord
• Scooby-Doo! First Frights
  • Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp
• Scribblenauts series
• Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf
• Spy Hunter
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

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