world Wrestling Entertainment Has signed an agreement to develop a new wrestling game which will be revealed officially soon. The upcoming game will be an official role-playing wrestling game. According to a report by EuroGamer, this new wrestling RPG was revealed in the company’s latest earnings call. WWEChief Brand Manager of Stephanie McMahon Addressed that 80% of its audience is gamers. The company considers gaming a priority and is set to expand that division with this new RPG. In other gaming news, EA has signed a new agreement with Middle-earth Enterprises to develop a new Lord of the Rings game for mobile devices.
WWE RPG disclosure details
McMahon revealed some minor details about the game, saying that WWE “recently signed a new deal in the role-playing game space that will be announced soon.” However, he clarified that the upcoming RPG game will be completely different from the mainline WWE series developed by 2K Games.
He confirmed the upcoming game while discussing the company’s video game business. So, the upcoming game can be expected to be an RPG video game instead of being a tabletop RPG.
What will happen to the mainline WWE game series?
The latest game in the mainline series is WWE 2K22 which was released in March. The series was relaunched after being forced to take a one-year break due to the disastrous launch of 2K20. McMahon also mentioned that this strategy proved to be very successful for the franchise.
She also said, “After taking a little over a year to improve the game engine, we worked closely with our partners at Take-Two Interactive, listening to our customers and fans, and delivering a game to them. Earned trust back. Which exceeded what they expected. WWE 2K22 was a commercial and critical success, with the highest Metacritic scores on both xbox and the PlayStation platform in franchise history, with over 5.6m hours of views Twitch to date.”
McMahon also commented that the rest of WWE’s gaming division is doing well as both Supercard and Champions continue to do well.
Other WWE Contestants
WWE is not going to be the only wrestling franchise in the video gaming industry as another franchise prepares to enter the market. recently, AEW Announced the title of their new game — AEW Fight Forever And the game will also include two new playable wrestlers.
WWE RPG disclosure details
McMahon revealed some minor details about the game, saying that WWE “recently signed a new deal in the role-playing game space that will be announced soon.” However, he clarified that the upcoming RPG game will be completely different from the mainline WWE series developed by 2K Games.
He confirmed the upcoming game while discussing the company’s video game business. So, the upcoming game can be expected to be an RPG video game instead of being a tabletop RPG.
What will happen to the mainline WWE game series?
The latest game in the mainline series is WWE 2K22 which was released in March. The series was relaunched after being forced to take a one-year break due to the disastrous launch of 2K20. McMahon also mentioned that this strategy proved to be very successful for the franchise.
She also said, “After taking a little over a year to improve the game engine, we worked closely with our partners at Take-Two Interactive, listening to our customers and fans, and delivering a game to them. Earned trust back. Which exceeded what they expected. WWE 2K22 was a commercial and critical success, with the highest Metacritic scores on both xbox and the PlayStation platform in franchise history, with over 5.6m hours of views Twitch to date.”
McMahon also commented that the rest of WWE’s gaming division is doing well as both Supercard and Champions continue to do well.
Other WWE Contestants
WWE is not going to be the only wrestling franchise in the video gaming industry as another franchise prepares to enter the market. recently, AEW Announced the title of their new game — AEW Fight Forever And the game will also include two new playable wrestlers.