
The latest news arrives amid claims that 2K Games could skip this year’s annual wrestling instalment entirely. Typically the two companies split their duties with Yuke’s leading design, art and tech, while Visual Concepts provided animation, audio and scriptwriting. Yuke’s had previously been the sole developer on the series until 2K’s 2013 acquisition of the game rights saw it introduce Visual Concepts as support. Yuke’s will have no involvement in the new WWE game.

Last year Yuke’s revealed in a VGC interview that it was working on a new, original wrestling IP to rival WWE 2K. However, the most recent title, WWE 2K20, saw the studio reduced to a tech support role as 2K studio Visual Concepts took over primary development. Yuke’s had worked with the WWE license since 1999’s Smackdown for PSOne.
