Take-Two picks up WWE franchise rights
As the corpse of THQ is split up and sold off following financial failure and "massive mistakes", we now know where another severed limb will be transplanted. After rumours of an acquisition last month, 2K has confirmed it'll be publishing the WWE series made by Japanese developer Yuke's.
As the corpse of THQ is split up and sold off following "massive mistakes" and financial failure, we now know where another severed limb will be transplanted. After rumors last month of an acquisition, 2K has confirmed it'll be publishing the WWE series made by Japanese developer Yuke's.
"We can confirm that we have entered into an agreement to publish the WWE video game series that is developed by Yukes," a 2K representative said in a statement provided to IGN. "At this time, the agreement is pending court approval and we anticipate that it will be finalized shortly. We are very excited about the potential of this agreement and will have more to share at the appropriate time."
Court documents picked up by Bloomberg say that Take-Two will also hire THQ employees who worked on the franchise. WWE and Yuke's had filed for damages against THQ, for potentially over $60 million combined, but they'll reduce these massively now that the franchise has been picked up.
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As the corpse of THQ is split up and sold off following financial failure and "massive mistakes", we now know where another severed limb will be transplanted. After rumours of an acquisition last month, 2K has confirmed it'll be publishing the WWE series made by Japanese developer Yuke's.-
What became of the South Park game?
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I hope this means another WWE All Stars game. It's seriously my favorite wresting game since WCW vs NWO games.
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so yukes is still making the games and take two is publishing so nothing gonna change
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What I'd like Yukes to do is take advantage of the NXT WWE development program, and work it in as a tutorial. Other than some serious hardlocking issues upon match restarting, being kind of thrown to the wolves to figure things out for yourself kinda sucks about WWE 13. However, the Attitude Era campaign has just been a fucking blast. Participating in the Montreal Screwjob and throwing Mankind from the top of the cell was #1 awesome about that game.
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