Following the restructuring and eventual bankruptcy of publisher THQ, all of the company's properties were sold off to other developers and publishers. One of THQ's biggest properties, the WWE license (of which the company had been developing games under for over 13 years), was sold to Take-Two Interactive (publisher of the 2K series of sports titles, including the popular NBA 2K series) and rebranded as the WWE 2K series.

It has been announced that WWE 2K14 will be released on October 29th, 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is being developed by Yukes and Visual Concepts and will be published by 2K Sports.