Paramount Skydance has shifted its focus for a bit on video games as it has launched Paramount Games Studio, a “core pillar” of the company’s content strategy. It’s a key focus along with television, film, and streaming. The move is the latest shakeup since David Ellison’s purchase of Paramount.

Paramount Games Studio merges Skydance’s existing game studios, Skydance Interactive and Skydance New Media, and mixes in Paramount’s intellectual property which has be mostly licensed to third parties.

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, which was announced in March of 2024, along with a Star Wars game made in collaboration with Lucasfilm are in the works. The studio has also teased TMNT: The Last Ronin and Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game.

Tony Driscoll will be the president of Paramount Games Studio and is also the company’s head of corporate strategy and development which he’ll continue to lead.

This is a bigger deal in that Paramount Skydance is currently attempting to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery. Along with a massive amount of intellectual property, Warner Bros. Discovery also has Warner Bros. Games which includes Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, Portkey Games, Rocksteady Studios, TT Games (TT Games Publishing, TT Fusion, Traveller’s Tales, and TT Odyssey), as well as WB Games Boston, WB Games Montreal, WB Games New York, and WB Games San Francisco.

It’s likely all of those studios will be folded into Paramount Games Studio if not worse (like studios closed) if the purchase of WBD by Paramount Skydance is approved.