The sport will now arrive three weeks earlier on September 4.
In the event you’re a online game writer with a recreation arriving within the second half of 2026, you are tossing it right into a veritable massacre. Almost each writer (apart from maybe Nintendo) has been doing every little thing in its energy to maintain out of the way in which of GTA 6. One of many many video games because of be launched within the comically over-crowded September-October window (GTA 6 arrives November 19) is Onimusha: Approach of the Sword, which was supposed to launch on September 25. We’re now getting it a bit earlier, with Capcom announcing a brand new launch date of September 4.
The brand new launch date is for all variations of the sport, so PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S, in addition to the Swap 2. It was solely a month in the past that Capcom introduced the unique launch date for the primary new mainline entry in its historic fantasy motion sequence since 2006’s Onimusha: Daybreak of Goals. 2002’s Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Future was remastered for contemporary platforms final 12 months.
The brand new launch date for Onimusha: Approach of the Sword means the sport needs to be afforded a bit extra respiration house. The earlier September 25 date would have seen it arrive in the identical week as extremely anticipated video games like Control Resonant and Silent Hill: Townfall, which each come out on September 24. After the brand new Onimusha lands, the following main launch is at present Marvel’s Wolverine on September 15.
And if September 4 remains to be too lengthy to attend for Capcom’s subsequent large recreation, there is a demo for Onimusha: Approach of the Sword out proper now, however keep in mind that progress doesn’t carry over to the total recreation.
