When asked to think of modern wrestling video games, many players instantly think of Yuke’s.
The Osaka-based studio has been working on Japanese wrestling games since the mid ’90s, but became known to western grappling fans in 2000 with the release of WWF SmackDown on the PS1.
This would begin an 18-year run of games, during which the series’ name would change from WWF SmackDown to WWE SmackDown, to WWE SmackDown vs Raw, to simply WWE then WWE 2K.
