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Wo Long is already Team Ninja’s biggest ever Steam launch, despite PC port issues
The past few hours have been good to legendary developer Team Ninja. The studio just launched Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty on all platforms, but its performance on PC is especially notable.
The PC version, available on Steam, the Windows Store, as well as PC Game Pass, is topping the charts on Valve’s platform, far exceeding any previous release from Team Ninja, or publisher Koei Tecmo.
As of this writing, Wo Long has so far peaked at nearly 74,000 concurrent players on Steam – per SteamDB, a figure that continues to climb every few minutes. This currently places the action RPG just one spot shy of Steam’s top 15 most played games.
Team Ninja’s ‘Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’ comes to consoles and PC on March 3rd
You’ll have to wait a few months if you want to see Team Ninja’s latest take on Nioh-style demon slaying. Koei Tecmo has confirmed that Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty arrives March 3rd for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC (via the Microsoft Store and Steam). It will also be accessible through Xbox Game Pass on launch.
Wo Long is effectively Team Ninja’s love note to Koei Tecmo’s long-running obsession with Three Kingdoms-era China (see: Dynasty Warriors). You play a militia member fighting a demon onslaught in the later Han Period. You’ll encounter famous warriors in the process. As with the Nioh series, you can expect an action-based battle system that rewards different playstyles, but is also unforgiving — when the creators talk about gaining strength by “overcoming adversity,” it’s safe to presume you’ll die often.
You’ll have something to play in the meantime, depending on your choice of platform. Sony just revealed that the remastered Nioh 2 will be one of PlayStation Plus Essential’s free games for November alongside the Lego Harry Potter Collection and Heavenly Bodies.
It’s not clear if Wo Long will continue Team Ninja’s track record. There is a large potential audience, at least. Team Ninja has announced that the two Nioh games have shipped a combined 7 million copies since the franchise’s debut in February 2017. While that won’t make FromSoftware nervous (Elden Ring alone had sold 16.6 million units by July this year), it suggests the new title could have plenty of fans.
Team Ninja’s Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is coming March 3rd
Team Ninja have announced that their fantasy action title, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, is slated for release on March 3rd, 2023 on consoles, PC and Game Pass. Wo Long is a Chinese-martial arts game set during the Han dynasty – this time with deadly demons for you to battle. The game was previously revealed at this year’s Xbox & Bethesda Showcase, where it made an impressive debut.
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Announced in June, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the newest concoction from developers Team Ninja, led by producers Masaaki Yamagiwa and Fumihiko Yasuda, of Bloodborne and Nioh, respectively. The self-proclaimed sword-based action game, rooted in Chinese martial art, gives fans their first look at the action.
Witcher 3 devs’ new game sounds like Destiny 2 with ninjas
Ex-CD Projekt developers who worked on The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 have formed a new studio and are working on an online game with Unreal Engine 5 – and it sounds like a lot like Destiny 2 or Warframe as a ninja game in feudal Japan.
The new studio, Dark Passenger, was co-founded by Jakub Ben and Marcin Michalski – who previously worked on The Witcher 3 and its expansions on the game’s art team, lending assistance on the cinematic side of Cyberpunk 2077. Their new indie studio is made up of “game dev veterans and fresh blood specialists” and is currently in production on a new online game set in Japan.
Dark Passenger describes the game as a first-person stealth-focused online multiplayer game with co-op, PvP, and PvE elements – a lot like Destiny 2 – built in Unreal Engine 5. “Our goal,” the developer states, “is to create highly exciting online experiences that are focused both on cooperation and rivalry.” Players take control of a ninja assassin and join up with other players to take on other clans and search for mysterious objects of “extraordinary power.”
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