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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment was formed as Time Warner Interactive in 1993, when they regained a controlling interest in [[Atari|Atari Games]] from Namco, who had gained controlling interest in Atari Games from Warner in 1985 (Atari Games was the arcade division of Atari, Warner Bros. owned both the home and arcade division of Atari from 1974 until 1984, when they sold the home division to Tramel Technology).  It was intended to be the video game publishing branch of Time Warner for the home market, while Atari Games made games for the arcade market.
'''Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment''' was first used as a licencing branch for video games around 1995.  Time Warner had reacquired Atari Games in 1993 and with that tried to establish their own video game division called [[Time Warner Interactive]] for developing and publishing games.  They also bought UK publisher Renegade Software in 1995 and published games under the [[Warner Interactive]] label. Both were sold off again in 1996/1997 though.  Time Warner entered the developing and publishing business again after the acquisition of Monolith Productions in 2004 under the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment label.


In 1995, Time Warner purchased and renamed Renegade Software to [[Warner Interactive]].  After this, they retired the Time Warner Interactive label, began to publish titles under the Warner Interactive label, and also began using the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment label for licensing.  Warner Interactive was sold to [[GT Interactive]] in 1997, and the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment label began to be used for both publishing and licensing.
As [[1 1/2 Ritter]] is a game based on the German film of the same name and only released in German, it was published by the German subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment instead.
 
They published the adventure game [[1 1/2 Ritter]].


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.wbie.com Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment website]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Interactive_Entertainment Wikipedia article on Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment]
*[http://www.wbie.com Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment website]


[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Companies]]

Latest revision as of 03:33, 29 November 2015

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment was first used as a licencing branch for video games around 1995. Time Warner had reacquired Atari Games in 1993 and with that tried to establish their own video game division called Time Warner Interactive for developing and publishing games. They also bought UK publisher Renegade Software in 1995 and published games under the Warner Interactive label. Both were sold off again in 1996/1997 though. Time Warner entered the developing and publishing business again after the acquisition of Monolith Productions in 2004 under the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment label.

As 1 1/2 Ritter is a game based on the German film of the same name and only released in German, it was published by the German subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment instead.

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