We've known that AEW is looking to hit the market with a significant video game against the rebirth of WWE 2K with their latest 2K22. No release target is known about AEW's game until now.
Fightful Select reports that there's been internal talk at AEW about the game being released in September. While a source has confirmed to Fightful Select that a major publisher is involved, no other details were revealed. We know so far that there will be a story mode in the game, and AEW has asked current wrestlers to help build the storyline.
While no publisher has been revealed, we learned earlier this year that the Yuke team from the Raw vs Smackdown game are part of the people behind creating the story mode for AEW's game. The Yuke team aren't the only significant players involved, as Hideyuki "Geta" Iwashita, who directed WWF No Mercy, will also help work on the project.
Kenny Omega did release some slight details back in February.
"It is coming along though, and for us, at least for me, there's a, there's a large emphasis on just the wrestling aspect of the game. We want the wrestling too, and it's tough to get that balance, but we want it to feel like, how a match would flow with, within a video game. So you know the matches will go, probably go, probably in general, go a little quicker. But, we want them to feel like the user is able to assume the role of their favorite AEW Superstar and/or whoever it is that they create in the create-a-wrestler mode and when they mix it in in the ring in whatever match type that they choose, that they're having a fun time and they feel like they're in control of their person and that the moves have impact. They feel everything, and that it's fun. But at the same time, if you want to be really competitive about it, you know there is that there too."
AEW will have a tough task following WWE's very popular release of WWE 2K22 after taking a year off.
