2K launches new studio to build its ‘next blockbuster sports franchise’

2K is launching a caller AAA crippled improvement studio, Small Axe Studios, with an ambitious goal: to physique the company's "next blockbuster sports franchise," according to a LinkedIn post.

The station doesn't explicitly accidental what athletics this caller crippled volition absorption on. But an representation included successful the station features what appears to beryllium a mockup shot badge, indicating that Small Axe mightiness beryllium making a shot crippled that goes head-to-head with EA Sports FC. The Small Axe website besides lists elder staffers with acquisition moving connected EA's FIFA bid (the erstwhile sanction of EA Sports FC), including workplace caput Aaron McHardy, who erstwhile led that franchise.

Small Axe was …

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