Acclaimed 2K Series Making a Comeback After 13 Years

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2K's once popular Top Spin tennis franchise has been given new life with the surprise announcement of a new game in the series. It's been a whopping 13 years since the last Top Spin title, a 2K sports game series that was once beloved by fans of tennis and of sports video games in general.

The Top Spin franchise had its beginnings on the original Xbox console in 2003, making its way to PC and PlayStation 2 in subsequent years. At the time, the only other serious competitor in the small niche that was 2000s tennis games was Sega's successful Virtua Tennis franchise, which has also laid dormant for almost as long as Top Spin. Three more Top Spin games were released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii through the rest of the 2000s, with Top Spin 4 marking the end of the beloved tennis franchise in 2011.

Now, 13 years after Top Spin 4, 2K has announced the return of the series with TopSpin 2K25 alongside the world-famous tennis tournament, the Australian Open, which is currently underway. The short 20-second teaser trailer featured in-engine footage of an Australian Open tennis match. The new logo followed as the trailer ended with «coming soon,» urging tennis and sports video game fans to follow TopSpin2K on Twitter for future updates.

For over the past decade, 2K has been leaning heavily on its more well-known annual sports franchises, like the ever-popular NBA 2K, WWE 2K, and PGA Tour 2K, letting other once popular series like MLB 2K, NHL 2K, and Top Spin fall by the wayside. Now that it's been over ten years since a major tennis video game, TopSpin 2K25 may find an audience that's been longing for a more realistic representation of the sport equipped with modern visuals. It seems like, with the inclusion of «25» in the title, TopSpin is looking to become another annual franchise alongside 2K's other NBA, PGA, and WWE franchises, as the original Top Spin games from the 2000s were non-annual releases.

Though it has no release date, "2K25" indicates that the game is aiming