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Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles (www.polygon.com)

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Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim unclear.

The media conglomerate’s planned removal of those games echoes cuts from its film and television business; Warner Bros. Discovery infamously scrapped plans to release nearly complete movies Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme, and removed multiple series from its streaming services. If Warner Bros. does go through with plans to delist Adult Swim’s games from Steam and digital console stores, 18 or more games could be affected.

News of the Warner Bros. plan to potentially pull Adult Swim’s games from Steam and the PlayStation Store was first reported by developer Owen Reedy, who released puzzle-adventure game Small Radios Big Televisions through the label in 2016. Reedy said on X Tuesday the game was being “retired” by Adult Swim Games’ owner. He responded to the company’s decision by making the Windows PC version of Small Radios Big Televisions available to download for free from his studio’s website.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 77 points 8 months ago

They're probably betting on the majority of zoomers being too tech illiterate to know how to pirate having raised them on streaming.

I guess we will see if they are right.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Millennials were raised on VHS tapes and we could figure out Limewire. I doubt this is going to work out well for the studios.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

Meh, many X, Millennial and Z that I know are clueless - they only know what the lock-down mobile device let's them see.

It's pretty sad, especially since X grew up before all this stuff.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 27 points 8 months ago

Theres always been techy and non-techy people

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

You can teach kids to use tech though, i was taught how to break drms on dvds when i was around ten then how to burn it onto a dvd. It was litteraly rent a movie from hollywood video put it in the computer, open up one program and select movie hit go. When it was finished hit save, replace the movie with a blank disc, then open another program select what was saved and hit go again. Very easy, i didnt understand a thing of what i was doing and it was set up by my uncle but clearly you can teach stupid kids to do anything.