Warner Bros. Surprise Lady recreation is “years away from launch” in keeping with a brand new report.
Surprise Lady, which is being developed by Monolith Productions, will use the Nemesis system from their acclaimed pair of Lord of the Rings titles launched over the last technology. The sport was introduced in 2021 at The Sport Awards. Since then, nothing has been proven from the undertaking.
Now, in keeping with Bloomberg, the undertaking was rebooted final 12 months, and has switched administrators.
“One of many firm’s largest bets in growth, a online game based mostly on Surprise Lady, has struggled to coalesce, in keeping with individuals accustomed to the undertaking. Early final 12 months, it was rebooted and switched administrators.
“The sport has already value greater than $100 million, mentioned the individuals who requested to not be recognized discussing nonpublic data, and remains to be years away from launch, if it ever makes it to market.”
Elsewhere within the report, it’s claimed that each Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions and MultiVersus flopped. Final week, Warner Bros. introduced that the event of MultiVersus is coming to an finish.
It’s additionally claimed that Rocksteady Studios is engaged on a single-player Batman recreation.
Warner Bros recreation division has confronted a number of points in recent times, with high-profile failures regardless of banking on Warner Bros’s largest franchises.
“In keeping with interviews with two dozen present and former Warner Bros. staff, an absence of a powerful, cohesive imaginative and prescient throughout Haddad’s reign — a tumultuous interval through which Warner Bros. struggled via a number of reorganizations — led to years of ineffectual trend-chasing and wasted growth time,” reads the report.
“Alongside the best way, once-revered studios below the Warner Bros. umbrella have taken reputational hits, misplaced key workers members and burned via tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.”
