Team Ninja's Rise of the Ronin.
Team Ninja's Rise of the Ronin.
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Rise of the Ronin comes to PlayStation on March 22, 2024

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Sony announced that Rise of the Ronin is a samurai action-role-playing game coming to the PlayStation in 2024.

The game will debut on March 22, 2024. It’s the latest title coming from Team Ninja and it will debut on the PlayStation 5.

You’ll create a custom character and fight enemies in ancient Japan during the Boshin War, which featured both katanas and firearms.

It is set in Edo in the late 19th century during Bakumatsu, the final years of the Edo period. It depicts the war between Shogun Tokugawa and various rebels after the reopening of Japan.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.