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For Mortal Kombat and DC, WB Games has promoted Shaun Himmerick of NetherRealm Studios to a senior vice president role focused on developing and overseeing new gaming projects. For Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, Yves Lachance of Warner Bros. Montreal will fill a similar role. Finally, Steven Flenory of WB Games New York is now senior vice president of central tech & services. That role is a little more vague than the other two, with Flenory “overseeing game and publishing technology, customer service, quality assurance and user research.”
It’s still too early to know what this all means, but on the surface, it looks like there’s going to be a greater effort by WB Games to focus on the aspects of its business that have performed best. Hogwarts Legacy was a massive financial success, even while projects like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League struggled to find an audience. WB Games has clearly been having a difficult time lately, as projects like Monolith’s Wonder Woman game were cancelled, and the studio closed.
Between the failures of Wonder Woman, MultiVersus, and Suicide Squad, fans of DC properties been left starving for new video game content. Of course, rumors about Injustice 3 have been circulating for quite some time now, and today’s news could make that project all the more likely. Fans have been asking for another Injustice game for several years, and having the head of NetherRealm now overseeing both Mortal Kombat and DC would seem to make that even more likely than it was before. Of course, it’s impossible to say just how far off it might be.
