Ninja Gaiden is again in an enormous method, with Ninja Gaiden 4 revealed because the thriller fourth recreation proven at Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct 2025. It is due out fall 2025 for Xbox Collection X and S, PC by way of Steam, and PlayStation 5 and is a day one Xbox Recreation Move launch title.
Ninja Gaiden 4 is printed by Xbox Recreation Studios and in growth at PlatinumGames, creator of Bayonetta and Nier: Automata, with Staff Ninja collaborating. Count on a brand new major playable character, a younger ninja prodigy known as Yakumo, though earlier protagonist Ryu Hayabusa does seem within the story.
It is a direct sequel to Ninja Gaiden 3, however set a major period of time for the reason that occasions of that recreation in a “gruesomely reworked” Tokyo, Microsoft stated.
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In the meantime, Koei Tecmo has shadow-dropped Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, an Unreal Engine 5 remake of the 2008 unique, on Xbox Recreation Move. For extra, this is every thing introduced throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct 2025.
Staff Ninja’s infamously difficult Ninja Gaiden sequence has an extended affiliation with Xbox. The developer’s reboot of the motion sequence launched first on Xbox in 2004, propelling grasp ninja Ryu Hayabusa into the mainstream. Ninja Gaiden Black, thought of one of many best motion video games of all time, launched the next 12 months.
Ninja Gaiden 2 got here out in 2008 printed by Microsoft Recreation Studios for the Xbox 360. Ninja Gaiden 3 adopted in 2012 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Since then, followers have had the critically panned spin-off Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, and, extra not too long ago, Ninja Gaiden: Grasp Assortment, a compilation of Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge.
Writer Koei Tecmo revived curiosity in Ninja Gaiden with the announcement of Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, a brand-new side-scrolling spin-off due out later this 12 months. However the primary occasion is Ninja Gaiden 4, which lastly continues Ryu Hayabusa’s story 13 years after Ninja Gaiden 3 got here out.
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