Koei Tecmo has released an update for hack-and-slash action game Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, and it's bringing a New Game Plus mode, adjustments to some of the game's enemy encounters, and more. The first…
February 12, 2025 | 10:52 EST
Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team Ninja have announced a Rise of the Ronin PC release, and it's less than two months away. Per an announcement on the game's brand new Steam page, Rise of the…
January 27, 2025 | 08:51 EST
Sony has released a set of statistics showing how players engaged with Rise of the Ronin's various activities, and the game's cat quest has proven surprisingly (or perhaps completely unsurprisingly)…
July 24, 2024 | 11:46 EDT
Koei Tecmo has released its financial statement for the fiscal year ending in March 2024, and it contains an interesting nugget of information regarding recently-released open-world action RPG Rise…
April 30, 2024 | 08:56 EDT
Team Ninja and Sony have released a brand new Rise of the Ronin deep dive video that goes into detail regarding the developer's painstaking process of bringing the game to life. In the video, game…
March 19, 2024 | 11:11 EDT
Team Ninja is a developer that I’ve become quite fond of in recent years, ever since I tried out the beta for Nioh. They play to their strengths, releasing consistently solid titles with challenging…
March 21, 2024 | 07:00 EDT
Sony and Team Ninja have released a new Rise of the Ronin story trailer, and it's showing off the game's three key factions, all of whom you'll be interacting with over the course of the narrative.…
March 12, 2024 | 10:39 EDT
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment and Koei Tecmo released a new behind-the-scenes video of the upcoming action RPG Rise of the Ronin. In the video, we hear from director Fumihiko Yasuda and…
March 7, 2024 | 11:04 EST
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan and Team Ninja released several videos focusing on the weapons included in Rise of the Ronin. Each video focuses on a category of weapon, showing its…
March 1, 2024 | 11:04 EST
Team Ninja and Sony have released a new extended Rise of the Ronin video that provides extensive detail regarding the game's signature Team Ninja-style combat. Titled simply "The Fight", the behind-…
February 23, 2024 | 10:56 EST
Team Ninja and Sony have released a new Rise of the Ronin trailer, seemingly marking the first in what appears to be a new series. Titled "World Vignette", the trailer revolves around the gorgeous-…
February 21, 2024 | 10:51 EST
Rise of the Ronin is the latest action RPG by the team Team Ninja the developer behind Nioh and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. As it's tradition since Nioh 2, players can create and customize their own…
February 20, 2024 | 01:45 EST
Koei Tecmo's Integrated Report 2023 published this morning alongside the company's financial results includes interesting insight from a veteran developer who may sound familiar for many fans, Yosuke…
January 29, 2024 | 06:41 EST
Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a new State of Play broadcast coming later this week, promising a look at plenty of upcoming PS5 games. According to the announcement made on the…
January 29, 2024 | 12:31 EST
Today Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the first 9 months of the fiscal year that will end on March 31, 2024, and they're a bit mixed. On one side, the documents reveal that sales for…
January 29, 2024 | 02:08 EST
Team Ninja has revealed the three key factions that are vying for dominance in the world of upcoming action RPG Rise of the Ronin. The game will be set in the turbulent Bakumatsu period of Japanese…
January 15, 2024 | 09:49 EST
Square Enix has announced that mobile RPG Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia is shutting down in February. In a post on the game's official X (formerly known as Twitter) account, the publisher…
November 29, 2023 | 03:57 EST
Today Koei Tecmo had plenty of reveals to make about its upcoming free-to-play Atelier game, Atelier Releriana: Wasure Rareta Renkinjutsu to Goku Yoru no Kaihou-sha First of all, we get a brand new…
August 28, 2023 | 11:36 EDT
Today Koei Tecmo and Akatsuki Games announced the next game of the beloved Atelier series, Atelier Resleriana. The full title is "Atelier Releriana: Wasure Rareta Renkinjutsu to Goku Yoru no Kaihou…
August 8, 2023 | 11:22 EDT
Today Square Enix finally announced the Steam release date of its action JRPG Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. The game will launch on Valve's popular PC storefront on April 6, 2023. Just…
March 16, 2023 | 06:31 EDT
The final Stranger of Paradise DLC expansion has been announced. Different Future will see Jack facing one last challenge alongside his friends, and it's launching across all platforms on January…
December 21, 2022 | 08:48 EST
If you've been hankering for more Stranger of Paradise DLC to play through, then today is your lucky day, as the Wanderer of the Rift DLC has received an October 26th release date. This comes after…
September 9, 2022 | 09:36 EDT
The first of three expansions, the Strangers of Paradise DLC' Trials of the Dragon King', will be heading to players on July 20, 2022. The DLC will include new weapons, characters, mechanics, and…
July 15, 2022 | 01:53 EDT
A tweet claims that Dead or Alive 7 has been canceled, but the legitimacy of the Twitter account making the claim has been brought into question. The Dead or Alive franchise has carved out…
May 6, 2022 | 02:09 EDT
Kojima is now officially a genius according to the Japanese government, and we get into all the announcements from the State of Play. We also played the Stranger of Paradise demo and the Kirby and…
March 14, 2022 | 07:00 EDT
Square Enix has claimed that three DLC missions for upcoming action RPG Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin won't be available outside of the Digital Deluxe Edition. However, this is…
December 30, 2021 | 09:21 EST
Square Enix has revealed new characters, locations, and jobs that will be in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, the ARPG Final Fantasy I prequel by Team Ninja. Final Fantasy…
December 14, 2021 | 11:19 EST
Square Enix has announced the Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin release date. The Soulslike hack-and-slash RPG arrives next March, and to accompany this announcement, a brand new demo for…
October 1, 2021 | 07:40 EDT
How does Final Fantasy 1 relate to Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin? According to Tetsuya Nomura, it's not "directly connected" to the game, instead using it as a "motif" for a new…
June 18, 2021 | 04:13 EDT
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin is an upcoming Final Fantasy spin-off title. Created by Nomura and developed by Team Ninja, this game will be the first Final Fantasy entry in the Soulslike…
June 15, 2021 | 08:08 EDT
Darkness, edgy one-liners, men's fashion, and Chaos. It's hard to have watched that first trailer for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin when it was debuted a few days ago. The meme engine…
June 15, 2021 | 01:22 EDT
In the wave of imitators to Dark Souls that have released over the last decade, Team Ninja’s 2017 hit Nioh stood out as perhaps the best attempt at replicating FromSoftware’s formula. While not…
February 18, 2021 | 11:30 EST
Update: Nioh 2's day-one update did fix the issue with 120 fps not working properly, but it's kind of a half measure. You can select the option and get 120 fps, but only sometimes. The game is very…
February 4, 2021 | 06:00 EST
Nioh 2 is on its way to PC and PS5. The Nioh 2 Complete Edition will pack in the base game and all three DLC expansions and will launch on February 21st next year. A remastered version of the…
November 13, 2020 | 08:51 EST
Details for Nioh 2's upcoming first DLC pack have been revealed. A Japanese stream for the game took place earlier today and revealed that Nioh 2's first DLC will be launching in Japan tomorrow at 1…
July 29, 2020 | 09:21 EDT
Nioh 2 has some brand new goodies. Starting today, you'll be able to access a Photo Mode as well as nine new missions at no extra cost. There's also more stuff on the way in the future. …
May 15, 2020 | 10:04 EDT
The Nioh 2 open beta is here months ahead of release. Available to anyone with a PlayStation 4 until November 10, this highly-anticipated sequel follows Team Ninja's uber-difficult world established…
November 6, 2019 | 12:00 EST
Nioh 2 is the sequel to the smash-hit action RPG of the same name. Developed by Team Ninja, the same team behind the uber-difficult Ninja Gaiden Series, asks you to prepare to die again and again as…
November 23, 2019 | 09:13 EST
Good news for fans of samurai and hard action games. Nioh 2 now has a release date of March 13th, 2020, and an open beta will be starting for free today. Additionally, you can now pre-order the game…
November 1, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
Those with Playstation Plus have a lot to look for this next month with Nioh and Outlast 2 being available to members to download on November 5th. Be sure to download October's PS+ games, The Last of…
October 30, 2019 | 08:17 EDT
While not a perfect port, Nioh: Complete Edition is a full-fledged experience. Both complex and challenging, it's a worthwhile journey for any action game fan.
September 28, 2019 | 10:54 EDT
It's the 15th anniversary of the surprisingly awesome Ninja Gaiden reboot. What's a good way to celebrate it? Adding a guest character to Dead or Alive 6, of course. Yes, Momiji will be joining the…
September 16, 2019 | 04:01 EDT
Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo revealed at Tokyo Game Show that difficult samurai action RPG Nioh 2 will launch in early 2020. There was no word on how closely the different regions will release, or if a…
September 13, 2019 | 09:30 EDT
If you were hankering for some Nioh 2 news you'll be happy to know the sequel to the samurai action RPG hack-and-slasher is getting a closed alpha later this week, starting on May 24, as announced by…
May 22, 2019 | 09:02 EDT
Want to play Dead or Alive 6 free? Well, you can—sort of. Dead or Alive 6: Core Fighters is a recently-released free-to-play experience for Koei Tecmo's flagship fighting game and it's available…
March 18, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
In the lead up to the release of Dead or Alive 6, there was a lot of talk about this entry trying to become "serious". Devs talked about toning down the sexier aspects of the characters and focusing…
March 1, 2019 | 10:00 EST
The Dead or Alive 6 release date just got a little further away. Koei Tecmo has announced via a press release that they're pushing it back by a couple of weeks in order to further polish and balance…
January 8, 2019 | 05:01 EST
The next entry in Koei Tecmo's famous fighting series, Dead or Alive 6 also has promised down some of the series notorious (for good or for ill - opinions vary) fanservice to make it into a more…
September 11, 2018 | 04:07 EDT