Warner Bros. San Diego, founded in 2019, was shut down last month without releasing any games. Reports indicate that the studio was working on a kart racing game codenamed Moonlight. Colin Moriarty, a former IGN writer, revealed on his podcast that a former employee disclosed details about the project, indicating it featured characters from various Warner Bros. franchises. The game was heavily inspired by Mario Kart and aimed for platforms like Xbox and PlayStation but faced diverse developmental challenges, leading to the exclusion of Switch and mobile from its final scope.
WB San Diego was deep in development on a kart racer which was codenamed Moonlight, which also went by a duo of potentially final titles: WB Racers and XDR, or X-Drift Racers.
Moriarty revealed that the game was originally conceived very early in the life of WB San Diego and according to the source there was very little intention and a lack of coherent approach throughout development.
The game was originally conceived as a free-to-play online only multiplayer racer that would support Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and even mobile.
Moriarty stated that he could safely say this title was heavily inspired by Mario Kart, a drift racer running on Unreal Engine 5 with stylised graphics.
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