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The head of WB Games is stepping down and the first person to mention Suicide Squad gets a cookie | David Haddad will stay in the role while a successor is sought.


David Haddad will stay in the role while a successor is sought.

In November last year Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav said the publisher would be narrowing its focus to DC ("in particular Batman"), Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat, and Game of Thrones. Me, I'll just be thinking of the 2023 glory days, when WB execs were so drunk on the success of Hogwarts Legacy they started spitballing all sorts of daft ideas like a Superman live service game, before Suicide Squad brought everyone back down to Earth. Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice.

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