Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social)
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BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

This is maybe the biggest bloodbath we’ve seen in this industry? What a damn shame.

  • KrudlerEnglish
    38•2 months ago

    29 years later, after working with Monolith on one of the worst projects in history… I can finally piss on their grave. Fuck you Matt, fuck Monolith. Yeah this is fucking personal.

      • KrudlerEnglish
        23•2 months ago

        They were contracted to design the (edit: low-level coin op hardware, etc) API for our new Internet-enabled touchscreen gaming network kiosks (world first at the time) and they were fucking useless. And then had the gall to present the piece of shit at the CGDG 1997, as a half-finished completely non-functional, but presented it like it was their own product and not a massive NDA violation. Presented like their own product which could be generically extended to other platforms. Fuck you Matt. Fuck you Monolith you fucking cunts.

          • @[email protected]English
            18•2 months ago

            You pay someone to do X with a contract; they

            • take your money
            • not do X
            • instead show the idea of X, which is yours, as THEIR product, which doesn’t even work
              • voliating non-disclosure agreements in your contract
              • doing untold damage to your business plans

            Yeah, I don’t know about anything else, but fuck Matt with a cactus.

            • @[email protected]English
              8•2 months ago

              Stories like these sound wild to most people but sadly they happen all the time. It‘s literally how Google got this big. Still makes me mad how they robbed and trolled Terravision out of their code now known as Google Earth. Not like it‘s a flagship for Google or money maker but they still literally stole the code via hard drive like they stole from so many others. The tech world is full of absolute asshats leeching off of the most talented. It‘s very evident in today‘s tech culture full of crypto, AI and whatnot.

              • KrudlerEnglish
                12•2 months ago

                I’ll tell you a secret. And this is coming from somebody that was at the top-top Top of the gaming world for 2 decades… 95% of tech people are complete frauds and charlatans. Its a miracle anything ever gets made. Look at today’s coders… they don’t even know what a computer does, they just download other people’s modules, cobble them together and pray. The vast majority of people who self-identify as being in “comp sci” don’t even understand the very basics.

                  • KrudlerEnglish
                    2•2 months ago

                    Nobody wants to hear them. Because I disabuse people of their cherished views and it doesn’t end well. Thanks though.

        • Echo DotEnglish
          9•2 months ago

          It sounds like your company could have sued them into oblivion. It’s a violated a non-disclosure agreement that should be the end of their company.