WWE 2K Developers Hit Hard in Company-Wide Layoffs

TLDR

Visual Concepts, the studio behind WWE 2K and NBA 2K, has conducted company-wide layoffs that reportedly hit the WWE game development teams the hardest, including both the main WWE 2K team and the group that worked on WWE 2K25: Netflix Edition. According to Insider Gaming, Netflix executives felt the WWE 2K25: Netflix Edition did not meet expectations and chose not to renew deals for future Netflix editions of WWE 2K26 or WWE 2K27, leaving an entire development team without future projects. Sources described the number of layoffs as significant, though Visual Concepts has not publicly confirmed the full scale of the cuts or their long-term impact on WWE 2K26 development.