{"id":740418,"date":"2026-07-03T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740418\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:13:14","slug":"onimusha-way-of-the-sword-will-now-launch-three-weeks-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740418\/","title":{"rendered":"Onimusha: Way Of The Sword Will Now Launch Three Weeks Earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September, particularly its last week, is packed with big releases, and Capcom has seemingly recognized this by adjusting the release date for <a href=\"https:\/\/gameinformer.com\/preview\/2025\/06\/24\/a-devilishly-satisfying-reinvention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Onimusha: Way of the Sword<\/a>. The game was set to launch on September 25, but has been moved up to release during the first week of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Onimusha: Way of the Sword will now launch on September 4 \u2013 21 days earlier than planned. Although the game still rubs shoulders with <a href=\"https:\/\/gameinformer.com\/preview\/2026\/05\/25\/just-how-choice-driven-is-rebel-wolves-debut-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Blood of Dawnwalker<\/a>, which arrives on September 3, that\u2019s probably better than when it was launching one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/gameinformer.com\/preview\/2026\/06\/05\/hands-on-with-remedys-surreal-take-on-stylish-action\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Control Resonant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gameinformer.com\/preview\/2026\/06\/08\/radio-drama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Hill: Townfall<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve played Onimusha: Way of the Sword on two occasions and have been impressed with its modernized take on the series\u2019 signature swordplay. You can read our first hands-on preview from last August <a href=\"https:\/\/gameinformer.com\/preview\/2025\/08\/22\/a-potential-renaissance-in-the-making\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and our most recent impressions from Summer Game Fest 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/gameinformer.com\/preview\/2026\/06\/12\/a-thrilling-boss-battle-makes-for-another-strong-showing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0When the game launches on September 4, it will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September, particularly its last week, is packed with big releases, and Capcom has seemingly recognized this by adjusting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-740418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}