Fortunately it seems that there is good news for all those development studios that had published their games under the label Adult Swim Gamesbecause the parent company, Warner Bros.is giving them back their works, i.e. the publishing rights, so that they can keep them alive on Steam and other digital stores, while continuing to earn something from them.
If you recall, back in March we reported that Warner Bros. was removing all Adult Swim Games games from stores, giving the developers 60 days notice. At the time, Warner refused to transfer ownership of the games to the original studios in order to keep them active, citing the lack of resources to do it.
A situation in progress
Now things seem to be different, as told by developer Landon Podbielski: “Duck Game he’s safe,” he wrote on Twitter. “He’ll give you more details soon, but the email from Warner has finally arrived. The game is about to return to the hands of Corptron along with its pages in stores on all platforms. It won’t go anywhere. Thank you all… I hope others received the same email.”
Fortunately, other developers also received the much-needed email, as reported by Game Developer. Among them are Owen Deery, the author of Small Radios Big Televisions, who recounted an experience similar to Podbielski’s. Furthermore, although the sixty days given by Warner Bros. as the deadline for the life of Adult Swim Games have passed, the publisher’s games are still on sale. We’ll see how the situation evolves.
Adult Swim Games is, but we don’t know for how long, a label dedicated to publishing indie games. It is one of the sacrifices made by Warner Bros. on the altar of free-to-play and live service games, which apparently will catalyze all its efforts in the coming years, despite a less than stellar start to the new strategy, due to the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League thud.
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