Summary
According to a former employee, video game developerWB San Diegowas working on a kart racer before the team was laid off and the studio shut down by Warner Bros. AlongsideWB San Diego, Monolith Productions and Player First Games were also canned in February 2025, and players now have some insight into one of the projects that was in development before the big closures.
First established in 2019, WB Games San Diego provided development support for a number ofWarner Bros Interactive video games, ranging from titles starringBatmanandHarry Potterto more recent releases in theMortal Kombatseries. While various Warner Bros titles have found success over the years, more recent titles have struggled to perform well among critics and audiences, leading to the shutdown of multiple studios and various game cancelations.
In a privatePatreonpodcast by former IGN writer Colin Moriarty that has now been summarized byWGB, it was revealed that a former WB San Diego employee reached out to Moriarty to share information on a canceled kart racer. This former employee stated that the game was codenamed Moonlight and was planned to star a number of familiar faces from the Warner Bros roster, including characters fromAdventure Time,Scooby-Doo,Tom and Jerry, and more. The game had several potential names, such as WB Racers and X-Drift Racers, and would have acted as a sister-title to the nowdefunct fighting gameMultiVersus. Moriarty alleges that he even saw gameplay of the WB kart racer, which he claims “was inspired byMario Kart” and featured “stylized graphics and fine vehicle control” in Unreal Engine 5.
WB San Diego Kart Racer Took a Backseat to MultiVersus
The source of the information on the canceled WB San Diego project shared several thoughts on why the game was likely never fully developed and released. They stated that it began as a free-to-play online multiplayer title that would be released across Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles, as well as on mobile, but then the Switch and mobile ports were dropped in favor of a PC release. It was then changed from an FTP model to a paid game with a planned early access Steam launch, leaving the development team bouncing back and forth between platform ports and UI models. In the end, they felt the title was doomed onceMultiVersusgot multiple releases, leaving WB San Diego’s kart racer without a fixed launch. Whether this will ever be officially confirmed remains a mystery, along with any further details on the Warner Bros kart racer that never was.
Audiences often lament the cancelation ofgames that were never officially announced, and it would seem WB San Diego was among the many teams to never see their projects brought to fruition. While some fans may be keeping their fingers crossed that the remnants of theWB San Diegokart racer will be revived by Warner Bros Interactive one day, it is often best advised to focus this optimism on games that are officially confirmed for release.
