Warner Bros. Games, as part of WarnerMedia, is currently going through a massive transition. AT&T, the parent company of WarnerMedia, is spinning off the multimedia company and merging it with Discovery. The complicated, multi-billion-dollar endeavor has left the status of Warner Bros. Games in the air over the past several weeks. However, that lack of clarity appears to have ended with AT&T confirming what's happening next for Warner Bros. Games -- starting with a studio being sold off.

The Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment studio being sold isn't necessarily one that fans will have been predicting. It's Playdemic, an England-based studio of modest size that was previously part of the Warner Bros. subsidiary TT Games. Playdemic is best known for its game Golf Clash, which was a successful and award-winning release in 2018. Playdemic has been acquired by Electronic Arts for a cash deal of approximately $1.4 billion. EA says Playdemic will help build and expand the company's sports portfolio while accelerating its mobile growth.

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But Playdemic's acquisition by Electronic Arts is perhaps the lesser story coming out of the announcement. Alongside confirmation that WarnerMedia had sold Playdemic, AT&T made a separate confirmation. "The remaining Warner Bros. Games portfolio" will be included in the WarnerMedia/Discovery spin-off/merger. In other words, no other studio sales or acquisitions are planned to be done ahead of the split.

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The oddity of the situation is that AT&T said it had other plans for at least a portion of the WarnerMedia gaming apparatus. In mid-May, AT&T explicitly stated that some of its "gaming arm" would remain a part of  AT&T. The further implication was that as much as half of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment could be split off or sold. That Playdemic, which was a small part of one Warner Bros. studio, is all that won't be sent to the new company seems like plans may have changed at AT&T.

It's still possible that more acquisitions could be coming in the future, following the spin-off of WarnerMedia. Those decisions, however, would be made by the leadership of the new Warner Bros. Discovery company and not by AT&T. As such, it's likely much too early to make any speculation about those plans.

Despite AT&T's earlier insinuations, there were no other reports regarding potential studio acquisitions. There was a brief rumor ahead of E3 that Microsoft could be pursuing both NetherRealm and Rocksteady Studios. That could still be true, but nothing came to fruition. But, likely, this isn't the end of the shakeup for the teams at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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Source: EA