David Haddad, president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, has revealed that the publisher is about to shift to a business model revolving around games as a service.
In particular, he talked about the introduction of a new developer in the team, one which is going to be set in Brighton, pretty close to the new 2K office with the label of Hangar 13 (Mafia III).
“But more than ever, the tech stack, whether it’s for publishing or BI or marketing, that you build and serve these games on—as we increasingly move everything to games as a service, the kind of enabling technology you need to keep them hyper-social, to keep them serving well, to keep them engaged, to take the innovations of game makers and deliver them, like the Nemesis system—you’ll see a lot of our investment not just in classic development, designers and engineers, and artists, but increasingly in the teams that end up serving live games,” Haddad mentioned during an interview with GamesBeat....