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Warner Bros. are returning some Adult Swim-published Steam store pages to their developers after allCorporate giant had originally planned to delist all games
Corporate giant had originally planned to delist all games
Image credit:Adult Swim Games
Image credit:Adult Swim Games
Warner Bros., owners of the now-defunct Adult Swim Games publishing label, have contacted some developers about returning ownership of their game’s Steam pages. The developers of bothSmall Radios Big Televisionsand Duck Game shared the news on X yesterday. It’s a seeming reversal of Warner Bros. stated policy back in March,when all Adult Swim Games seemed destined to be delisted.
“Duck Game is safe!!,“shared Landon Podbielski on X. “more details soon but the email from warner finally came. the game is being returned to corptron along with it’s store pages on all platforms, it’s not going anywhere. thank you everyone… hoping everyone else got the same email.”
Super Mega Team, the developers of Rise & Shine,also shared that they’d received the same email from Warner Bros.
While Adult Swim did not seem to take IP rights to the game’s they published, they did control the Steam store pages. Delisting those pages would have wiped away years-worth of Steam reviews, leaving developers to start over from scratch within the marketplace. Transferring ownership of a Steam store page can be performed in just a few clicks.
In instances where developers themselves are defunct, it’s likely some games would not return to Steam at all - and that’s still a risk. I’ll update this post if more developers declare they’ve been contacted.
