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During Wrestlemania 37 weekend, Have-Two and the WWE confirmed that the WWE 2K franchise is making a comeback. After a yr-long hiatus meant to alter the cadre of the gameplay engine, simulation wrestling action will return to consoles with the upcoming launch of WWE 2K22. But while we know that WWE 2K22 will be launching in the near future, do nosotros take an idea as to when the new game will really launch? Yeah.

On Apr 10, 2022, WWE and Take-Two aired the starting time teaser for WWE 2K22, highlighting gameplay from an early, work-in-progress build. The teaser showed off improved graphics, but that was about information technology. Take-Two concluded the promo by stating that more information will be made public in the well-nigh futurity.

Subsequently that trailer aired, it took us a while to receive some more than official details on WWE 2K22. In fact, the next time we would hear anything concrete on the new game was 4th months later during the E's second-biggest pay-pay-view of the year, Summerslam. Take-Two and the WWE aired a full-length trailer that showed off some of 2K22'due south new graphics, plus a cursory look at its gameplay.

On January twenty, 2K confirmed that WWE 2K22 will launch on March 11. Individuals who buy the special edition of the game will go three days of early access, first on March eight.

Traditionally, WWE 2K games launch sometime during October. The most recent WWE 2K game, WWE 2K20, launched in October 2022. The same tin exist said for WWE 2K19, which launched in early on October of 2022. But that will change for WWE 2K22, as the release date aligns upwardly well with this yr's WrestleMania.