Warner Bros to open studio in San Francisco developing free-to-play, social and mobile video games

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that it will be creating a digital video game studio in San Francisco, CA. Called WB Games San Francisco, it will open this year and specialize in creating games that will work across multiple platforms — specifically publishing “high quality, free-to-play, mobile, social and browser-based games.” The new studio will be led by Greg Ballard, its Senior Vice President of Digital Games. He said in a statement that “The Bay Area is the home of social and mobile gaming and WB Games San Francisco is Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s opportunity to expand our game development capabilities into the epicenter of the digital world.” What’s more, he believes it will help achieve the studio’