{"id":454412,"date":"2026-03-03T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454412\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:23:07","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-is-rebuilding-its-video-game-pipeline-after-a-significant-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454412\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery is &#8220;rebuilding its video game pipeline&#8221; after a &#8220;significant&#8221; 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery said 2025 was a &#8220;significant&#8221; year for the company, but made little mention of its gaming sector beyond claims it is &#8220;rebuilding&#8221; its video game business in its most recent financial report to investors.<\/p>\n<p>After reporting strong performance from its movie and streaming segments, the company stated it was &#8220;rebuilding [its] video game pipeline&#8221; but did not provide any further details on that side of its business in <a href=\"https:\/\/s201.q4cdn.com\/336605034\/files\/doc_earnings\/2025\/q4\/earnings-result\/WBD-4Q25-Shareholder-Letter.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its shareholder letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. Discovery does not provide disaggregated data for its game division, but across its <a href=\"https:\/\/s201.q4cdn.com\/336605034\/files\/doc_earnings\/2025\/q4\/earnings-result\/WBD-4Q25-Earnings-Release.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full Studios segment<\/a> \u2013 which includes gaming \u2013 revenue was down 14% year-on-year to $3.18 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The company did, however, report a 34% drop in games revenue across Q4 2025, &#8220;primarily driven by higher carryover in the prior year quarter,&#8221; while its games content expense also dropped 46% for the same reason, as well as &#8220;$50 million of impairments in the prior year quarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Revenue for Warner Bros overall during Q4 2025 totaled $9.4 billion, a 6% decrease year-on-year. Across the whole 2025 financial year, revenue dipped by 5% to $37.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today we learned that Netflix CEO Ted Sarandon has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/netflix-boss-says-paramount-acquisition-of-warner-bros-will-result-in-cuts-in-excess-of-16-billion-within-18-months-or-so\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the deal under which Paramount outbid his firm for control of Warner Bros<\/a>, including its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/what-does-the-netflix-deal-mean-for-warner-bross-games-division\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">storied games division<\/a>, is &#8220;dependent on a lot of cost-cutting&#8221;, which he said would take place following the deal&#8217;s completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery said 2025 was a &#8220;significant&#8221; year for the company, but made little mention of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-454412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}