Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN and other streaming and studio businesses, said Tuesday it is putting itself up for sale
They see the writing on the walls. Their IPs can’t carry them forever, especially now that the manchildren who like them are approaching their 40s.
I bet the Saudis have their eye on this one too.
I don’t want to contribute to the mountains of AI slip on the internet, so instead I’ll just prompt the reader’s brain to imagine a picture of Bugs Bunny in Arabian robes, eating a carrot nonchalantly, with the caption “eh, wahabi ‘doc?”
So which right-wing oligarch gets this one?
The rumor a few weeks ago was Paramount/Skydance… you know… this Paramount:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bari-weiss-editor-in-chief-cbs-news-paramount-the-free-press/
In case you don’t know who that is:
(34 minutes, NSFW)
Tl;dr/dw?
Edit: The uploaded has not made this video available in your country.
The corporate media landscape is already too consolidated; any further mergers should be blocked, and existing oligopolies split up instead.
Ooooor we can let the same right wing oligarchs purchase it and further consolidate their total control of information leading the world into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape
How bout they put that nemesis system up for sale
This shit should not be patentable in the first place
But if corporations couldn’t patent it, then nobody would make it!
Don’t you know that we have copyright and patent laws to thank for why we have any art or entertainment in the first place!?
Without them, we’d have nothing.
I don’t think the other extreme is any better.
For real
As a sustainable video game entity, WB games would be better suited in just about anyone else’s hands. WB has tried to sell off its games division in the past, but they’ve spent the better part of two decades making sure that their game studios produced nothing except for tie-ins to their movie and comic book businesses. I was told straight to my face at a PAX years ago that the pitch process under WB starts with a game idea and ends with, “Cool, now make it Batman,” or “Cool, now make it Lord of the Rings.” Then when they tried to divest themselves of games, not only did they have no IP to sell outside of old Midway properties, they also thought the new buyer would love to keep paying licensing fees to WB for the properties attached to these gaming franchises. Bunch of geniuses over there.
buy my company that i led for shit, its verluable
I honestly thought WB games had already been shut down.
New Dorlock Holmes mystery game when
Pulling for Disney:
