Dynasty Warriors: Origins (PS5) News Articles
Tuesday11th Nov 2025
News Major Dynasty Warriors: Origins DLC, Visions of Four Heroes, Marches to PS5 in January
Be Lu Bu's bestie
Previously teased by Koei Tecmo but not officially announced, Dynasty Warriors: Origins - Visions of Four Heroes is a major expansion for the largely fantastic action title, which launched near the beginning of this year. The DLC is releasing on the 22nd January 2026, and will let you team up factions outside of the Three...
Monday15th Sep 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins' Mysterious 'Large-Scale DLC' Launches in January on PS5
Don't warrior about it
A detail that some may have missed during the latest Nintendo Direct, the "large-scale DLC" for Dynasty Warriors: Origins will release on the 22nd January 2026, alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the base game. The expansion is also coming to PS5, of course, on that same date. This DLC — which has remained shrouded...
Sunday3rd Aug 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins 'Major DLC' Announced Alongside Remaster of an Old Game
Place your bets
In celebration of Dynasty Warriors' 25th anniversary, Koei Tecmo has announced that a "major DLC" is in development for Dynasty Warriors: Origins, and that a remaster of an older game in the series is also happening. It's been speculated for a while that Origins would get some form of expansion; the title's story only carries...
Thursday1st May 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Helps Push Koei Tecmo Profit to Record High
Atelier Yumia, too
It's apparently been a really strong year for Koei Tecmo, as the Japanese publisher's latest financial results reveal record profits. By and large, it sounds like the company's self-published video games have played a huge part in boosting the numbers. While sales were actually down 1.7% year-on-year, the strength of Koei Tecmo's...
Wednesday23rd Apr 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Patch 1.005 Adds a Fantastic Photo Mode, New Armour
Snapping pictures instead of bones
It's been a few months since Dynasty Warriors: Origins restored our faith in Koei Tecmo's hack and slash franchise, but it's still nice to see the game getting a fresh update. Patch 1.005 is just a few hundred MB in terms of download size, but it adds a couple of cool extras. First up, there's now a fully fledged...
Friday21st Feb 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins PS5 Patch 1.003 Out Now, Makes NPCs Shut the Hell Up and More
Rumour me this
Dynasty Warriors: Origins patch 1.003 is now available to download on PS5, weighing in at a very reasonable 220MB. While it's not what we'd call a significant update, the patch does bring a few welcome improvements. Most notably, it adds a new option that lets you lower the frequency of those mind-numbing NPC dialogues that occur as...
Friday14th Feb 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Carves Through a Deserved 1 Million Sales
A true warrior
It's official: Dynasty Warriors: Origins has been a hit for Koei Tecmo, surpassing 1 million sales in the space of a month, or thereabouts. The Dynasty Warriors series has never been a commercial juggernaut. Back in the days of the PS2 and PS3, the games used to sell especially well in Japan — but the property rarely caught on in...
Tuesday21st Jan 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Appears to Be Doing Very Well
Building a new dynasty
Dynasty Warriors: Origins is looking like it will be a big commercial success on the back of its critical acclaim. The soft series reboot achieved the highest rating in the franchise’s long history recently, with our review heaping praise on the title. Now it’s attracting players in droves. While we don’t have PS5...
Wednesday15th Jan 2025
News Dynasty Warriors 10 Was Cancelled and Reworked Into Dynasty Warriors: Origins
"Back to basics"
According to a new interview with Japanese publication 4Gamer (as covered in English by Siliconera), publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force were working on a different Dynasty Warriors title prior to the newly released Dynasty Warriors: Origins. However, the project — which probably would have become Dynasty Warriors 10...
Monday13th Jan 2025
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Is the Highest Rated Dynasty Warriors Game Ever
A new Dynasty
The critic reviews have dropped for Dynasty Warriors: Origins, and Koei Tecmo's latest action game is off to an impressive start ahead of its release on the 17th January. At the time of writing, Origins sits a very respectable overall score of 80 on Metacritic. The PS5 version has been reviewed by 44 publications — including us! —...
Friday6th Dec 2024
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Demo Has Been a Huge Hit, Tops 1 Million Downloads
Back in the saddle
Is Dynasty Warriors finally back? It's certainly starting to look that way, because the recent Dynasty Warriors: Origins demo has been downloaded over 1 million times. Said demo features a sizeable battle that takes place early on in the game, showcasing the action title's impressive scale and overhauled combat systems. From what...
Friday22nd Nov 2024
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Demo Out Now on PS5, 'Enhanced' on PS5 Pro
Sishui Gate awaits
Koei Tecmo has revealed that a playable demo for Dynasty Warriors: Origins will drop this week, on the 22nd November. The action title promises impressively vast — and incredibly busy — battlefields, leveraging the power of current-gen hardware to deliver a serious spectacle. The demo should be very interesting from a...
Thursday7th Nov 2024
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins 4K PS5 Gameplay Is a Sight to Behold
Castle crashers
Originally part of the publisher's Tokyo Game Show presentation, Koei Tecmo has released a full 4K version of its Dynasty Warriors: Origins gameplay showcase. The video is over 15 minutes long, and takes us through an entire castle siege. On top of the heightened resolution, we've now got English subtitles — and so it's much...
Thursday26th Sep 2024
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Actually Looks Awesome in Live PS5 Gameplay Demo
Fight for the right
Dynasty Warriors needs a return to form after the dismal Dynasty Warriors 9, and to be fair to Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force, it's starting to look like Dynasty Warriors: Origins could be a genuine banger. Now, while some longtime fans have expressed concern over the game's decision to move away from the traditional...
Tuesday24th Sep 2024
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Unleashes Chaos on PS5 in January 2025
Kingdoms come
Dynasty Warriors: Origins has returned for its second State of Play showing, and this time, it's brought a release date along. As was previously announced, the kind-of-reboot / spin-off is dropping in 2025 — and it's early 2025. The all-out action title arrives on the 17th January. This new trailer also gives us a look at several...
Friday26th Jul 2024
News First Dynasty Warriors: Origins Gameplay Confirms Character Switching, World Map, More
Plus new screenshots
Raw gameplay from Dynasty Warriors: Origins has emerged from PlayStation's stage at ChinaJoy 2024. This is the first time we've seen the game itself in action, and the footage actually confirms a bunch of important details. For starters, Origins has character switching. In the gameplay, we see the nameless protagonist fighting...
Friday31st May 2024
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins Makes the Most of PS5 Hardware with Truly Massive Battles
"As far as the eye can see"
A surprise announcement during the latest State of Play, we're hoping that Dynasty Warriors: Origins will be a return to form for Koei Tecmo's hack and slash series. While not a traditional Dynasty Warriors experience in that you'll be playing as a "nameless hero" who's thrown into the Three Kingdoms chaos, this is...
News Dynasty Warriors Origins Could Be the Comeback Fans Have Been Waiting For on PS5
Warriors, come out to play
Dynasty Warriors is making a rather grand-looking return in 2025 on PS5. It's fair to say that the Koei Tecmo and Omega Force series fell off a cliff with Dynasty Warriors 9 — a deeply flawed release — but this so-called Dynasty Warriors Origins looks like a significant step forward, especially in the graphics...
