Warner Bros. sole bidder for Midway assets

Posted Jun 27th 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz

It's looking like Warner Bros will be the sole bidder on some of Midway's assets as the once major game publisher sells itself off. The LA Times reports that no other publisher made bids to buy Midway's properties. That means Warner Bros. will almost certainly buy two of Midway's dev studios in Chicago and Seattle along with game IPs such as Mortal Kombat. Two more Midway teams in the UK and San Diego are not part of the Warner. Bros. offer of $33 million.

However the bankruptcy court will have to consider some creditor's claims about the Midway sell-off. That includes Tigon Studios, the Vin Diesel-founder game company who claims Midway still owes them $200,000 for their work on Midway's last game Wheelman.

Tags: midway, warner-bros, warner-bros-interactive, wheelman

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sounds great that Warner Bros took over the two games along with the two studios...As a gamer i am anxiously waiting for its new achievement which would be done with MORTAL KOMBAT in the future hope it will give a new picture to it sooner or later.............
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Posted at 9:19AM on Aug 4th 2009 by Suzaine