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Tuesday30th Apr 2024
News Rise of the Ronin PS5 Sales Beating the Nioh Series
"High valuation by players"
Koei Tecmo has shared a brief sales update for recent PS5 exclusive Rise of the Ronin, revealing "sales are surpassing the Nioh series". Without posting any hard numbers, it goes on to say the game has a "high valuation" amongst players and the company is now looking at "mid to long-term growth" for the title. Released...
Thursday11th Apr 2024
News Japan Sales Charts: Rise of the Ronin Rides Again, Refuses to Leave Top 3
All rise
Rise of the Ronin has once again done reasonably well for itself in the latest Japanese sales charts. The current PS5 exclusive launched a few weeks back, but unlike fellow action RPG Dragon's Dogma 2, it's been able to stick in the top ten since its release. It sold an additional 12,000 copies at retail, bringing its physical total up to...
Thursday4th Apr 2024
Keep ronin, ronin, ronin
Despite Dragon's Dogma 2 boasting marginally better launch sales than Rise of the Ronin (with both titles releasing on the same day), it's Team Ninja's PS5 exclusive that's managed to stand stronger in the latest Japanese charts. Indeed, Ronin has actually done quite well for itself, shifting an additional 20,000 retail...
News Rise of the Ronin PS5 Patches 1.02, 1.03 Focus on Bug Fixes, No Performance Improvements Yet
You've been framed
Team Ninja has (rather stealthily) released two updates for Rise of the Ronin. The first of these patches (1.02) arrived on the 29th March, while the second (1.03) has only just dropped. However, if you were expecting the developer to address the title's disappointingly flexible frame rate, then you're out of luck. Indeed, these...
Thursday28th Mar 2024
News Japan Sales Charts: Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin Can't Beat Princess Peach
Feeling pink
Three relatively big games all released on the same day last week: Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, and Princess Peach: Showtime!. But as we all know, Japan absolutely adores its Nintendo Switch exclusives — and so perhaps it's no huge surprise to see the latter title top the latest charts. To be fair, there wasn't a big gap...
Tuesday26th Mar 2024
News UK Sales Charts: Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin Off to a Weak Start at Retail
Not quite, Arisen
It sounds like Dragon's Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin — both released on Friday of last week — have struggled to make an immediate impact in the UK. While we don't have the full sales charts just yet, GamesIndustry.biz's ever-knowledgeable Christopher Dring has outlined the relative success of the new releases, and it's fair to...
Tuesday19th Mar 2024
News First Rise of the Ronin PS5 Review Score Is Sky-High
Famitsu publishes its verdict
Update: The review embargo for Rise of the Ronin has now lifted, and overall critic verdicts haven't been as kind to the PS5 title as Famitsu. On Metacritic, the game sits at a score of 76 from 94 outlets. In our Rise of the Ronin PS5 review, we awarded the game a 6/10 and concluded: "Rise of the Ronin isn't a bad...
Thursday14th Mar 2024
News Live-Action and Cutscenes Meet for a Rise of the Ronin PS5 Launch Trailer
Out on 22nd March
Rise of the Ronin is out for PS5 as an exclusive next week, which means Sony has given it the usual flashy launch trailer treatment, blending live-action footage with cutscenes taken from the game. Clocking in at exactly one minute, you can check the trailer out above ahead of the 22nd March 2024 release date. Before launch, we'll...
Friday8th Mar 2024
News Rise of the Ronin PS5 Trophy List Points Towards a Lot of Open World Work
Gonna need a horse
The Trophy list for soon-to-release PS5 exclusive Rise of the Ronin is now showing up on Sony's servers. There are 51 digital trinkets to collect, and after a brief analysis, we're pretty sure that unlocking the Platinum Trophy won't be a walk in the park. For starters, the action RPG expects you to complete basically all of its...
Tuesday5th Mar 2024
News Rise of the Ronin Is Another PS5 Exclusive with a Huge Download Size
On the rise
Rise of the Ronin may not be first-party project, but its download size certainly fits the bill. Following on from the enormity of fellow PS5 exclusive Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (which sits at a whopping 145GB!), Team Ninja's action RPG with eat up a considerable chunk of your console storage. As reported by the ever-reliable PlayStation...
Friday1st Mar 2024
News Rise of the Ronin Gets Loads of New PS5 Gameplay Footage, Featuring 8 Different Fighting Styles
Steel yourself
Just a few weeks away from release at the time of writing, Rise of the Ronin has graced us with eight new PS5 gameplay videos, each of them showcasing a different weapon-based fighting style. Nioh fans will definitely recognise some of them, but there's an impressive degree of variety on offer here. The eight weapon types are as...
Monday26th Feb 2024
News Rise of the Ronin Confirms Character Creator, Four Player Co-Op for Main Missions
Samurai squad
Team Ninja's next samurai outing, Rise of the Ronin, will take more from the Nioh series and Wo Long: Fallen Destiny than first expected. The developer has confirmed the game will feature an in-depth character creator and the ability to play with up to four players in online co-op during the game's main story missions. The news was...
Friday23rd Feb 2024
News Your Allies Will Determine Your Playstyle in PS5 Exclusive Rise of the Ronin
Watch the new dev diary
Rise of the Ronin is now just less than a month away on PS5, with Team Ninja bringing us another bloodthirsty action RPG on 22nd March. As we get closer to the big day, the second dev diary has now been published, and this one focuses on the game's action, and how it and the narrative feed into each other. The game is set...
Thursday15th Feb 2024
News Sony Refutes Rise of the Ronin Korean Cancellation Claims, Says It Was Never Announced
All part of the plan
Yesterday, we brought you word of a brewing controversy surrounding the upcoming PS5 action game Rise of the Ronin after director Fumuhiko Yasuda made some comments alluding to a controversial 19th-century Japanese philosopher. It was supposed that these comments were why Sony confirmed the game would not be released in Korea,...
Wednesday14th Feb 2024
News Rise of the Ronin's Korean Release Cancelled Following Commentary Controversy
Pulled from PSN, along with marketing materials
If, like ourselves, you're only passingly familiar with the complex, extremely fraught history between Japan and Korea, you might have missed the significance of specific comments made by Rise of the Ronin director Fumuhiko Yasuda in a behind-the-scenes trailer released last week. We certainly did,...
Friday9th Feb 2024
News Glimpse Rise of the Ronin's PS5-Powered Depiction of 1800s Japan
Black Ships on the horizon
Set during the disastrous final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Rise of the Ronin will take players to Bakamatsu-era Japan and arm them with an arsenal of early-modern weaponry. We got a new trailer and an accompanying PlayStation Blog write-up, shedding further light on the game's depiction of this pivotal moment in...
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News Rise of the Ronin PS5 Gets Gameplay Deep Dive at Sony's State of Play
Samurai flamethrower
Team Ninja's upcoming open world epic, Rise of the Ronin, got a blowout at Sony's latest State of Play showcase, with a gameplay overview trailer giving us our best look yet at the game in action. We see its impressive depiction of 19th-century Yokohama, one of the first Japanese ports opened to trade with foreign countries. The...
Monday15th Jan 2024
News Free Rise of the Ronin PS5 Avatars Available Now
Six free Avatars to collect
Ahead of its PS5 release on 22nd March 2024, Sony is offering a handful of free Rise of the Ronin Avatars to customise your profile with. There are six in total, and you can individually claim each one by logging in to your PSN account on the game's official page and then scrolling down to the Factions of the Bakumatsu...
Tuesday19th Dec 2023
News Rise of the Ronin Preview Details Open World, Moral Choices, Combat, More
PS5 action RPG opens up
To say it's coming out in just a few months, we don't really know a whole lot about Rise of the Ronin. Up to now, all we've really been aware of is that it's an action RPG from the makers of Nioh and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, and takes place in Japan in a more realistic period setting. Even with the recent trailer, we still...
Friday8th Dec 2023
News PS5 Console Exclusive Rise of the Ronin Out in March 2024
Pre-orders open next week
Sony stopped by The Game Awards to announce PS5 console exclusive Rise of the Ronin will release on 22nd March 2024. You can check out the new trailer above — which shows it to look rather a lot like Ghost of Tsushima — and pre-orders will open next week on 15th December 2023. The game will release on the same day as...
Monday3rd Jul 2023
News Rise of the Ronin Leak Suggests a Q1 2024 Launch on PS5, More Details
Screenshots posted, romance options
Details and screenshots have leaked for PS5 console exclusive Rise of the Ronin via a Discord server run by the former insider The Snitch. We won't be hosting the images here, but click through to view them. They feature a look at the map, a quest description, and what looks like symbols for a skill tree. The game...
Thursday22nd Dec 2022
News More Upcoming PS5 Games Handed Wishlist Pages
Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade
It's not just Marvel's Spider-Man 2 getting a new PS Store wishlist page; upcoming PS5 console exclusives Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade now also have their own listings on Sony's storefront. The former went live today while the latter was uploaded yesterday
Monday19th Sep 2022
News Sony XDEV's Japan Division Assisting with PS5's Rise of the Ronin
Formerly European unit now global operation
Sony XDEV, originally, was the Liverpool-based first-party business unit responsible for overseeing first-party projects developed by external European studios. Examples in the past have included games like Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human and Sumo Digital’s Sackboy: A Big Adventure. However, we...
Wednesday14th Sep 2022
News PS5's Rise of the Ronin Is an Open World Action RPG, Team Ninja Confirms
Started development seven years ago
The game's tantalising reveal trailer didn't make it completely obvious, but Team Ninja has confirmed that Rise of the Ronin is an open world action RPG. You'll be running, gliding, and horseback riding across 1863 Japan in a bid to restore order to a restless nation. "Here in this time of mayhem, you embody a...
News Rise of the Ronin Is a New Team Ninja Action Game, PS5 Console Exclusive Set for 2024
Call me the wanderer
Just when you thought that Team Ninja was going all-in on Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, it unveils Rise of the Ronin — a 1863 Japan action game that looks pretty darn cool. It's aiming for a 2024 release, and it's going to be a PS5 console exclusive. Comparisons to Ghost of Tsushima will obviously be made, especially since this is...
