Yuke's Co. Ltd (Also known as YUKE's Future Media Creators) is a video game company based in Osaka, Japan. It was established on February 26, 1993.
The company is best known for their development of the WWE SmackDown! game series (known as Exciting Pro Wrestling in Japan). Other games they have made include WWE Day of Reckoning, Evil Zone, EOE: Eve of Extinction, Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage, Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc ~Seimasenki no Sho~, Soukaigi, Rumble Roses, The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer, UFC 2009 Undisputed, and the D1 Grand Prix series (which they also sponsor).
Recently, the company developed and published Neves, a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS.
Yuke's also owns 54% of New Japan Pro Wrestling, the top wrestling promotion in Japan. It is also their DVD production house.
In August 2019, it was announced that Yuke's had ended its partnership with 2K Games, the two having worked on the WWE 2K games since 2013's WWE 2K14, and development duties of the WWE games were turned over to Visual Concepts, starting with WWE 2K20 in 2019. Their most recent release was AEW: Fight Forever (which is All Elite Wrestling's third game and the promotion's first console game), which was released in 2023.
Games[ | ]
1995[ | ]
- Toukon Retsuden
- Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic
1996[ | ]
- Power Move Pro Wrestling[1]
- Toukon Retsuden 2
1997[ | ]
- Uchhannanchan no Honou no Challenge: Denryuu IraIra Bou
- Toukon Retsuden 3: Arcade Edition
1998[ | ]
- Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling: Toukon Road - Brave Spirits
- Toukon Retsuden 3
- Soukaigi
- Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling: Toukon Road 2 - The Next Generation
1999[ | ]
- Evil Zone
- Last Legion UX
- Toukon Retsuden 4
- The Pro Wrestling
- Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
2000[ | ]
- WWF SmackDown!
- WWF Royal Rumble (2000 video game)
- The Pro Wrestling 2
- WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role
2001[ | ]
2002[ | ]
- Edit Racing
- EOE: Eve of Extinction
- WWE WrestleMania X8
- WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth
2003[ | ]
- WWE WrestleMania XIX
- WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain
- Finding Nemo
2004[ | ]
- Haunted Mansion
- Online Pro Wrestling
- Aqua Kids
- Berserk (2004 video game)
- Finding Nemo 2
- WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw
- WWE Day of Reckoning
2005[ | ]
- D1 Grand Prix
- D1 Grand Prix 2005
- WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006
- Wrestle Kingdom
- WWE Day of Reckoning 2
2006[ | ]
- The Dog: Happy Life
- WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2007
2007[ | ]
- WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008
- Wrestle Kingdom 2
2008[ | ]
- WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009
- Gundam 00: Gundam Meisters
- D1GP Arcade (developer)
2009[ | ]
2010[ | ]
- UFC Undisputed 2010
- WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
External links[ | ]
- Official site (Japanese/English languages)
- List of games at GameFAQs