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Thursday3rd Nov 2016
News Sony's Nioh PS4 Exclusive Marketing Has Started Already
Faster than a samurai's slash
Just a short while after it was revealed that Sony will be publishing Nioh in North America and Europe, the PlayStation Maker has released an extended version of the action role-playing game's intruiging Tokyo Game Show trailer. It's worth mentioning that over on the video's YouTube page, the phrase "PS4 exclusive" is...
News Sony Treating Action RPG Nioh as a First-Party PS4 Game, Will Publish in the West
It'll have four PS4 Pro modes, too
Speaking at a PlayStation Pro event earlier today, Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi revealed that Sony will be publishing Nioh in both Europe and North America. The PlayStation 4 exclusive is due out in February 2017, and Hayashi said that the team is working with Sony in order to "get the game into as many hands as...
Thursday15th Sep 2016
TGS 2016 Nioh Shows It's Got Soul in New Trailer
Sword and sorcery
Feeling festooned with Tokyo Game Show trailers yet? There are still more to come. Koei Tecmo has released a flashy clip showing off Nioh – the Dark Souls-esque feudal foray. We've loved the various demos of this title that the publisher's deployed, so we're eager to get our hands on the punishing final product. It's due out...
Tuesday13th Sep 2016
TGS 2016 Nioh Bleeds a 2017 Worldwide Release Date on PS4
Adds to a packed first quarter for PS4
One of the most relevant stories to come out of Sony's Tokyo Game Show 2016 press conference, Nioh finally has a release date. The hardcore action role-playing game was supposed to launch this year on PlayStation 4, but given that we've heard no news regarding a confirmed date over the last few months, a 2016...
Tuesday23rd Aug 2016
News Free Nioh Beta Is Out for Blood Right Now on PS4
Samurai showdown
Following up on April's alpha, the Nioh beta is out now on PlayStation 4. Providing a more in-depth look at Team Ninja's intense action role-playing game, the beta should be well worth a download if you're a fan of challenging combat and sinister settings. We quite liked the aforementioned alpha, so it'll be interesting to see how...
Wednesday17th Aug 2016
Gamescom 2016 Nioh Is Coming Along Very Nicely Indeed on PS4
Deep cut
Nioh's looking pretty swish in its latest trailer from Gamescom, with publisher Koei Tecmo reminding us that the game's beta will be available from the 23rd August. Dubbed by many as Dark Souls with samurai, this is perhaps one of the action role-playing game's best videos, as we see main character William facing off against a bunch of...
Tuesday19th Jul 2016
News Samurai Action RPG Nioh Makes a Return to PS4 for a Limited Time Next Month
Reforged
Back near the end of April, Koei Tecmo released a playable demo for Nioh on PlayStation 4, and the whole thing ended up generating a good amount of hype for the samurai styled action title. With its prior success in mind, the Japanese publisher has slapped a launch date on the game's second demo, which will be available from the 23rd August...
Tuesday14th Jun 2016
E3 2016 Nioh Skewers a PS4 Story Trailer
Sharpen your blade
Nioh's still looking pretty sweet in its latest PlayStation 4 trailer, which Koei Tecmo's brought all the way to E3 2016. It's a little on the short side, but the video gives us our best view yet of the action role-playing game's story, which seems to feature a bunch of secondary characters. As you'd expect, though, there's also...
Wednesday4th May 2016
News Today's Your Last Chance to Play the Nioh Demo on PS4
Download gets cut off tomorrow
The Nioh alpha demo is set to leave the PlayStation Store tomorrow, so today is your last chance to get stuck into this tough samurai slash-'em-up. As far as we're aware, the demo won't allow you to play unless you're connected to its servers, meaning that even if you have it downloaded onto your PS4 right now, you...
Tuesday26th Apr 2016
News Test Your Mettle in the PS4 Nioh Demo Right Now
The will of a samurai
Promising PlayStation 4 action title Nioh is launching later this year, but if you've been keeping up with the news, you'll know that a tough looking demo is due out today on Sony's home console. Featuring a gameplay segment that sees you go up against sword-wielding samurai and grizzly demons, you can download the demo right...
Monday4th Apr 2016
News Try Tense PS4 Action Title Nioh Later This Month
Steel yourself
Well this is a nice little surprise: Koei Tecmo's Souls-esque samurai slasher, Nioh, is getting a demo later this month on PlayStation 4. Apparently, the download will allow you to test your skills over a small gameplay segment, and obviously, that means you'll be able to sample the game's great looking combat. However, the demo will...
Saturday5th Mar 2016
News PS4 Exclusive Nioh's Looking Sharp in New Gameplay
Sword and yield
Well, then – this looks good. Nioh was announced a little while ago for the PlayStation 4, but now publisher Koei Tecmo's uploaded almost six minutes of gameplay footage from last year's behind closed doors presentation at the Tokyo Game Show. And it's looking really rather excellent, isn't it? We hate to be lazy and bring up the...
Saturday5th Dec 2015
PSX 2015 Nioh on PS4 Looks Like Someone Mashed Bloodborne and Onimusha Together
But will it be as brutal?
Nioh caught our attention back in September at the Tokyo Game Show, and it's still looking pretty darn cool. An upcoming PlayStation 4 title from Team Ninja, the release got bloodied with a new trailer at the PlayStation Experience which confirms that it's coming West. We reckon, as the headline suggests, that it bears...
Saturday19th Sep 2015
TGS 2015 Nioh Is Shuhei Yoshida's Most Anticipated PS4 Game
Nioh you don't
Shuhei Yoshida's in a pretty privileged position where he gets to play practically every first-party PlayStation 4 game in an early state, but while he'll have enjoyed hands-on time with titles like Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Horizon: Zero Dawn, it's actually another title that's caught his eye: Koei Tecmo's re-revealed Nioh,...
Tuesday15th Sep 2015
TGS 2015 PS4 Exclusive Nioh Slashes with Samurai and Spirits 10 Years Later
About time
After ten years of unsure development and far too many rumours of cancellation, Nioh is finally confirmed for release in 2016 - it was originally intended to be a PlayStation 3 launch title. The slice-'em-up will now launch exclusively on PlayStation 4, and it's bringing plenty of moody tones and samurai sword fights with it. The release...
