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Warner Bros Opens Comic Game Studio in Montreal
Chris Faylor
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Ever-expanding publisher Warner Bros Interactive is opening a new Montreal-based development studio dubbed WB Games Montreal, GameFocus reports.

This particular branch of the WB Games family will be led by company Martin Tremblay, and will reportedly focus on crafting games based on DC Comics properties--a brand that includes Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Justice League, and so on.

Batman: Arkham Asylum, one of the most recent comic games out of Warner Bros, was both a commercial and critical success. Since its August 2009 release, Warner has announced a sequel and purchased Rocksteady, the developer behind Arkham.

Other studios under the Warner Bros Interactive umbrella include three facilities in Seattle--Monolith Productions (F.E.A.R. 2), Snowblind Studios (Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Lord of the Rings: War in the North) and Surreal Software (The Suffering, This Is Vegas)--along with TT Games (LEGO Batman, LEGO Harry Potter) and WB Games Chicago (Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, formerly Midway Chicago).

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • the archvile legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    March 22, 2010 8:17 PM

    Judging from the acquisitions, this seems like more of a way to exploit the idle DC Comics IP portfolio than it does an avenue of making great games. Batman: Arkham Asylum was a hit, but FEAR 2 was a dud; more of an "interactive movie" than a "video game".

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