Rugby League (video game series)

Rugby League
Genre(s)	Sports game
Developer(s)	Sidhe Interactive, Wicked Witch Software,
Publisher(s)	Tru Blu Entertainment
Platform(s)	Current: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android Notable past systems: Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Wii
Original release	2003–present
First release	Rugby League 9 December 2003
Latest release	Rugby League 26 17 July 2025

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Prior to Tru Blu, there were a handful of Southern Hemisphere-focused rugby league video games:

E.T.'s Rugby League (1992, Ozisoft, for Commodore 64) named after Andrew "ET" Ettingshausen^[1]
Australian Rugby League (i-Space Interactive and EA Sports, 1995, for Mega Drive)^[2]
ARL '96 in 1996 (Creative Assembly, EA Sports for PC CD-ROM)^[2]

The Rugby League franchise started in 2003 when Rugby League was released by Sidhe Interactive and Tru Blu Entertainment. This led to Rugby League 2 in late 2005 and the World Cup Edition (a content update of RL2) in 2008. In 2009, Wicked Witch Software released two off-series games on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable and Rugby League 3 was released. Big Ant Studios in 2010 starting releasing the Rugby League Live series in 2010. Rugby League Live 2 followed in 2012, again developed by Big Ant Studios.

On 31 May 2013, Tru Blu Entertainment announced Rugby League Live 2 would receive an update to the game, the 2013 season pack, developed by Melbourne's Big Ant Studios. It features an update to the 2013 season of rugby league; team Kits, roster updates, new 2013 competitions, new and updated stadiums, sponsors and a number of other features and improvements. The update was released on 19 June 2013, as DLC on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Wicked Witch Software created Rugby League Live 2 for iOS, which was released in 2013 and later on Android.

Rugby League Live 3 was released by Big Ant Studios in September 2015 on seventh-gen and eighth-gen consoles as well as Microsoft Windows.

On 9 May 2017, the NRL announced the latest title Rugby League Live 4 which was released on 28 October 2017.

In 2020, the NRL confirmed that a new Rugby League game is due for release in 2021.The game has since been delayed multiple times, the game is still in production with a currently unknown release date. ^[3]

On 1 July 2024, Tru Blu Games announced that Rugby League Live 3 and Rugby League Live 4 would be removed off sale on all platforms due to their NRL license expiry. The Publisher stated that the servers would be kept back up.^[4]^[5]

On 13 June 2025, Big Ant Studios announced Rugby League 26 for release on 17 July 2025. ^[6]

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Title	Release Date	Console(s)	Developer(s)
Rugby League	9 December 2003	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows	Sidhe Interactive
Rugby League 2	8 December 2005^[7]	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows	Sidhe Interactive
Rugby League 2: World Cup Edition	6 November 2008	PlayStation 2	Sidhe Interactive
NRL Mascot Mania	2 July 2009	Nintendo DS	Wicked Witch Software
Rugby League Challenge	9 September 2009	PlayStation Portable	Wicked Witch Software
Rugby League 3	18 March 2010	Wii	Sidhe Interactive
Rugby League Live	27 August 2010	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows	Big Ant Studios
Rugby League Live 2	9 October 2012	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360	Big Ant Studios
Rugby League Live 2: Gold Edition	20 September 2013	iOS, Android	Wicked Witch Software
Rugby League Live 3	10 September 2015	PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows	Big Ant Studios
Rugby League Live 4^[8]	20 July 2017^[9]	PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC^[8]	Big Ant Studios^[8]
Rugby League Live 4 World Cup Edition	18 December 2017	PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC	Big Ant Studios
Rugby League 26	17 July 2025^[10]	PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC	Big Ant Studios

Rugby League (video game series)

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