This is a stark contrast to Kudo Tsunoda from EA Chicago, director of Def Jam: Icon (which stunk), who apparently thought that вЂњ wrestling and rap didnвЂ™t go togetherвЂњ. According to Josh Holmes and Liles himself, he was instrumental in building the вЂњworldвЂќ of the first two Def Jam games, and believed in the project from the beginning. The Secret History Of вЂDef Jam Vendetta,вЂ™ The First Hip-Hop Video Game (OkayPlayer)Д«ack to Kevin Liles for a minute. WeвЂ™re licensing all these songs to the game company -В how come weвЂ™re not making games? Kevin Liles, former president of Def Jam. AKI later rebranded to syn Sophia, and has focused almost exclusively on rhythm and music games since that rebranding. Conversations ensued, and Josh and his team were assigned to work with the folks at AKI in Japan, who were already working on the framework of a wrestling game that would eventually become Def Jam: Vendetta. It turns out Kevin Liles at Def Jam (an avid gamer) was chomping at the bit to make a Def Jam fighting game already. While Josh didnвЂ™t actually expect the pitch (or the game) to be successful (he admits the idea of rappers wrestling each other was insane) EA loved it.

The Def Jam-related part of the interview starts around the 11-minute mark. He had just come hot off the heels of creating NBA Street and NFL Street, and wanted to give that same visual treatment to a fighting game. In an interview with IGN, Josh talks about the creation of both titles, and how he and his teamвЂ™s passion for streetball culture, hip-hop, and all the sounds and sights that came with them, were the driving factor behind their pitch. Josh left EA after Fight For NY, but was instrumental in getting the Def Jam games as we know them created. Lastly, weвЂ™ve got Kevin Liles вЂ“ formed president of Def Jam. ThereвЂ™s also Def Jam themselves, AKI (now syn Sophia) вЂ“ the people behind Vendetta and Fight For NYвЂs engines, and вЂ“ for the sake of the story вЂ“ Josh Holmes, director of both aforementioned titles. At the highest level we have WB Interactive Entertainment (owner of NetherRealm Studios), and Electronic Arts (presumable current owner of the Def Jam license).

Lets talk about the potential stakeholders here. So with nobody else to rely on, Ed Boon has to know that heвЂ™s got to take matters into his own handsвЂ¦ But how? Level 2: The Background This announcement never happened, by the way. Once our twitter hits 1M, we have a special announcement for yвЂ™all ! рџЋ®- Def Jam Recordings August 10, 2020

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