Warner Bros. Discovery’s treasure trove of iconic franchises could soon be available to video game companies, Warner reports. Warner Bros.’ gaming division is taking a hit because it hasn’t performed as well as last year, as launch numbers for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The company appears to be interested in licensing its intellectual property outside of its own studio cluster.

As IGN reports, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and JB Perrette, president of global streaming and gaming, have confirmed the decision to license their franchises. These include Harry Potter, Batman, Justice League, Looney Tunes, And Game of Thrones, among others.

“We have 11 studios here and a lot of intellectual property. There is also a lot of interest from others to use some of that intellectual property for games, which we are looking at,” Zaslav says in a conference call. “We need to get bigger, and the intellectual property we own and the value it has in the gaming space is something we want to leverage.”

The same investor call also revealed the publisher’s intentions to further advance the free-to-play gaming space. It acquired the free-to-play fighting game MultiVersus Developer Player First Games did the same at the beginning of the year.

Warner Bros Games’ latest performance figures showed the giant saw a 41% year-on-year drop in revenue, which it attributed to the lack of success of its live service attempt, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The game’s $200 million loss was a major blow to the publisher. Last year, the single-player entry Hogwarts Legacy sold in record numbers and became the best-selling game in the US alone in 2023; 24 million copies have been sold worldwide to date.

Although it is in the extremely popular Batman: Arkham universe and made by the same developer, the title was panned by critics and fans alike. In Neowin’s own review of the game, I called the game a largely repetitive experience with too much focus on the looter-shooter nature.