DC Head James Gunn Teases New Future for WB Games With 'Some Bigger Things' Now 'in Early Stages'

DC Studios co-CEO and Superman Director James Gunn says large things are successful store for Warner Bros. Games, but it’s going to instrumentality a portion to spot them travel to fruition.

The comic publication bigwig spoke astir his plans to grow the DC beingness during an interrogation with GamesRadar+. As Gunn, co-CEO Peter Safran, and the remainder of the DC Studios unit crippled a caller people for DCU shows and movies, the Superman moviemaker says helium has nary plans to permission gaming retired of the equation.

“There's been immoderate flimsy question connected antithetic things," Gunn teased. "We person a mates of small DC games coming out. But we besides person talked astir – and successful aboriginal stages of readying – immoderate bigger things. One happening successful peculiar I'm excited about, but it does instrumentality time. There's been immoderate changes successful Warner Bros. Games, and truthful we're dealing with caller people.”

Those changes he’s referring to person unraveled passim the past twelvemonth oregon truthful and person seen WB Games shifting its absorption to 4 cardinal franchises: Mortal Kombat, Harry Potter, DC, and Game of Thrones. It’s a cardinal alteration to however Warner Bros. is looking to the aboriginal pursuing monolithic losses tied to Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, arsenic good arsenic the underperformance and eventual shutdown of MultiVersus. WB Games caput David Haddad near the institution successful January.

The workplace besides canceled its Wonder Woman crippled and unopen down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego successful February. Although WB Games has managed to present palmy comic book-based video games similar the Injustice bid and Batman Arkham series, DC gaming inactive has immoderate enactment to bash if it wants to marque up mislaid ground.

Gunn teases things are yet successful question astatine WB Games but declined to stock what benignant of DC projects fans tin expect to spot successful the future. However, GamesRadar+ adds that the manager teased that determination is simply a bully accidental Superman prima David Corenswet could reprise his relation for a video game.

Gunn and Safran shared earlier this twelvemonth that it volition beryllium “a mates of years” earlier fans get their hands connected the archetypal DCU games. Safran says they’ve been hands-on erstwhile it comes to caller projects astatine studios similar Injustice workplace NetherRealm and Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady arsenic they steer DC successful a caller direction.

“We spot designs for the projects successful their precise earliest stages,” Gunn added astatine the time. “We speech astir those. We speech astir erstwhile they're talking astir what the communicative mightiness be, we say, ‘Well, possibly you privation to spell this mode due to the fact that we're readying connected possibly doing thing with this quality and truthful distant and truthful on,’ and assistance to woody with that.”

It volition beryllium immoderate clip earlier a caller imaginativeness for WB Games comes to fruition. In the meantime, the workplace has been engaged with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, which it announced arsenic portion of gamescom 2025 earlier this week. Although fans are divided owed to its constricted roster, galore person already recovered themselves drawn to its recreation of classical movie moments and Batman Arkham-like combat.

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