The one formally licensed John Wick online game is being faraway from sale simply six years after launch.
Bithell Video games’ well-received John Wick Hex launched in October 2019. It’s a fast-paced, action-oriented technique recreation “that makes you assume and strike like John Wick.” John Wick, in fact, is the massively standard motion hero made well-known by Keanu Reeves.
Quick ahead six years and John Wick Hex is ready for the digital scrapheap. In an replace directed on the recreation’s group, writer Massive Fan Video games (which is a part of Devolver Digital) stated John Wick Hex can be faraway from sale on all platforms starting July 17, 2025.
After July 17, present homeowners of John Wick Hex will nonetheless have the ability to entry the sport by way of their digital libraries throughout PC and console, and naturally bodily copies will proceed to work on console. Nonetheless, new purchases of John Wick Hex is not going to be doable, no matter platform or storefront.
Massive Fan Video games did not say why John Wick Hex was being faraway from sale, nevertheless it appears possible it is the results of the expiration of its licence with John Wick rights holder Lionsgate Leisure. IGN has requested Massive Fan for remark.
The expiration of a licence is without doubt one of the essential causes video video games find yourself being pulled from storefronts; you see it most frequently with video video games which have licensed music. It occurred to Alan Wake, Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic remake trailers, and Spec Ops: The Line, to call however a couple of. Online game preservationists typically name for online game corporations to do extra to maintain their merchandise alive when this occurs. Again in 2018, Rockstar changed Grand Theft Auto IV tune licenses that had expired after the top of a 10-year deal.
As for Bithell Video games, it launched Tron: Catalyst final month. The sport was developed in collaboration with Disney and Pixar Video games, and is ready throughout the world of Tron.
And as for John Wick, he not too long ago cameoed in spinoff Ballerina, and John Wick 5, as soon as once more starring Keanu Reeves, is in improvement, though we’re undecided when it’ll come out. Director Chad Stahelski not too long ago stated he is nonetheless attempting to work out methods to make Keanu Reeves in John Wick 5 make sense given the ending of 4. In the meantime, Keanu Reeves reportedly pays an organization a couple of thousand {dollars} a month to get the likes of TikTok and Meta to take down imitators.
Lionsgate has confirmed it has a John Wick AAA online game within the works, though it has stated nothing about it.
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