AEW Dynamite (2022 Video Game)

AEW Dynamite (Not to be confused of the Wrestling TV program of the same name) is the 14th Professional Wrestling game developed and published under Bandai Namco Games. It's also the first wrestling game developed for the 9th generation of consoles and the first to use Bandai Namco's updated wrestling game engine, Grappl Engine Mk II.

Development
It was announced in January 2020 that Bandai Namco was discontinuing support for their previous wrestling game, New Japan Pro Wrestling: Strong Spirits, and was working on a new project for the most recent generation of consoles, the official announcement would happen at the AEW Games 1.0 livestream on YouTube, where Kenny Omega, Tony Khan, Cody Rhodes, and Aubrey Edwards would announce their most recent partnership with Bandai Namco, and would be making a new game under the guise of Hideyuki "Geta" Iwashita, the director of the AKI (now known as Syn Sophia) Pro Wrestling video games developed for the Nintendo 64.

Due to COVID 19 restrictions, the game's marketing was limited to the AEW Games Showcases presented by Kenny Omega, who would give insight into the development of the game, including talking about Grappl Engine Mk II, an evolution of the Grappl Engine that was used starting with "Ring of Honor: Death Before Dishonor", gameplay aspects, promised features, mechanics, and modes, and various promises that the game would keep in mind, such as the promise to keep the game going with DLC and patch updates that add things such as match types, modes, and fixes to whatever bugs are present.

The game's original cover, which featured outdated branding (Using the color splash motif Dynamite was known for in 2019 - 2020, along with having an outdated set of champions on the cover), was revealed at E3 2021, however the cover was changed at the start of 2022 to be more in line with the actual branding of the show.

Roster
AEW Dynamite would launch with 72 wrestlers in the base game, with 80 more added in through post-launch DLC. Thus making the current roster 152 wrestlers.