Pro Wrestling have had a great relationship with videogames for years and in its third year of existence, All Elite Wrestling or commonly known as AEW is posed to be that competitor that WWE needs since the death of WCW and another big step is a video game.
Pipeline from AEW’s project indeed included a videogame and was not a secret, but finally details have been revealed this week with AEW: Fight Forever.
AEW: Fight Forever is in development by Yuke’ Media Interactive, the same developers that worked with WWF/WWE under (the original) THQ publishing know for all Smackdown, Raw VS Smackdown, WWE12 and WWE 13 before THQ surprisingly went bankruptcy and WWE enlisted 2K games since then.
The previous video that was recorded independently by crowd members at this weeks’ AEW Dynamite and Rampage tapings, shows ring announcer Justin Roberts rallying crowd to do a series of chants for recording and be included as part of the game’s soundtrack including props to Hangman Adam Page, FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood), Adam Cole’s “Bay-Bay” & “Boom” and wrestling legend Sting.
This is the latest on AEW game after back in September and in a historical agreement with Owen Hart Estate and Owen Hart Foundation, Owen Hart will be a playable character included posthumously after his tragic death in 1999.
Finally the game will be published by in-house publishing subsidiary AEW Games (which already have AEW Casino: Double or Nothing and AEW Elite General Manager), heading for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4 and Xbox One on an unnamed date for 2023.