If there's ever been anything more disappointing than how bad Superman videogames always are, it's how bad Batman games always are these-days. Sure, the Superman games are typically abysmal -- but we've come to expect that as a gaming mainstay. Batman, however, has so much promise for a cool stealth-based action puzzle-solving crime-fighting-caper game, and all the recent attempts have fallen flat.

So, Warner Brothers has decided to stop trying to make their own crappy games and let someone else do it for once. According to Variety, WB has given Eidos Interactive (Tomb Raider, Hitman) the rights to a lot of their licenses, from Batman to 'The O.C.'. Yes, there could very-well some day be an O.C. game.

Also picked up in the handoff were the licenses to the entire catalog of Hanna-Barbera and Looney Toons cartoons.

This is all possible because Warner Brothers just bought a 10% share of Eidos/SCi stock for over $86 million.

Yet another change in this deal is that Warner Brothers will now handle distribution of all of Eidos' games (while Eidos will still publish and manufacture the games). So basically, WB is handing off some of their very valuable licenses to someone who actually knows how to make games, and Eidos is handing off the job of distributing millions of copies of software each year to a company who's been putting media on store shelves for ages.

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