In August 2019, then-series publisher 2K Games announced it had moved WWE game development to California-based studio Visual Concepts. įrom 2005 to 2012, Yuke's owned 54% of New Japan Pro-Wrestling, the top professional wrestling promotion in Japan. They were recommended to THQ by Aki, who had developed their own line of wrestling games. Though Activision purchased the rights to publish the game in North America and began localization work, only the first game was localized, becoming Power Move Pro Wrestling with a different roster of wrestlers.īeginning in 2000, Yuke's began to develop wrestling games for THQ based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF now WWE).

The latter title was a best-seller in Japan. The first two games that the company developed were the platform game Hermie Hopperhead and the pro wrestling game Toukon Retsuden. The company is best known for developing the WWE video game series, based on the professional wrestling promotion of the same name, until 2018.įounded in 1993, Yuke's was named after founder Yukinori Taniguchi's high school nickname.

It was established on 26 February 1993 by Yukinori Taniguchi. is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka.

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