Quite a lot of workers at Warner Bros. Montreal have revealed that the have been laid off from the corporate, with lots of them having completed their stint on the studio on March 13, 2026.
Nothing official has been introduced by Warner Bros. Montreal but, however many ex-developers have taken to LinkedIn to say they’re now on the lookout for work. The job losses would nonetheless align with feedback from Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, who acknowledged that the deal beneath which Paramount outbid the streaming large for management of Warner Bros and its video games division can be “depending on a number of cost-cutting.”
Warner Bros. Montreal suffered layoffs again in December 2024, when 99 workers misplaced their jobs the identical day that developer Rocksteady confirmed it was ending help for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
WB Video games Montreal has an extended historical past engaged on the Batman franchise, having labored on the Wii U model of Batman: Arkham Metropolis, and occurring to work on Batman: Arkham Origins, DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight, and was the creator behind Gotham Knights and helped out on Suicide Squad. It’s at present engaged on a brand new DC Comics title utilizing Unreal Engine 5, with a job itemizing final 12 months hinting in the direction of it being a dwell service title.
[Source – Warner Bros. Montreal Staff @ LinkedIn (1, 2, 3) via Eurogamer]
