The Only Official John Wick Video Game Is Being Pulled From All Platforms 6 Years After Release

The lone officially licensed John Wick video crippled is being removed from merchantability conscionable six years aft launch.

Bithell Games’ well-received John Wick Hex launched successful October 2019. It’s a fast-paced, action-oriented strategy crippled “that makes you deliberation and onslaught similar John Wick.” John Wick, of course, is the hugely fashionable enactment leader made celebrated by Keanu Reeves.

Fast guardant six years and John Wick Hex is acceptable for the integer scrapheap. In an update directed astatine the game’s community, steadfast Big Fan Games (which is portion of Devolver Digital) said John Wick Hex volition beryllium removed from merchantability connected each platforms opening July 17, 2025.

After July 17, existing owners of John Wick Hex volition inactive beryllium capable to entree the crippled via their integer libraries crossed PC and console, and of people carnal copies volition proceed to enactment connected console. However, caller purchases of John Wick Hex volition not beryllium possible, careless of level oregon storefront.

Big Fan Games failed to accidental wherefore John Wick Hex was being removed from sale, but it seems apt it's the effect of the expiration of its licence with John Wick rights holder Lionsgate Entertainment. IGN has asked Big Fan for comment.

The expiration of a licence is 1 of the main reasons video games extremity up being pulled from storefronts; you spot it astir often with video games that person licensed music. It happened to Alan Wake, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake trailers, and Spec Ops: The Line, to sanction but a few. Video crippled preservationists often telephone for video crippled companies to bash much to support their products live erstwhile this happens. Back successful 2018, Rockstar replaced Grand Theft Auto IV opus licenses that had expired aft the extremity of a 10-year deal.

As for Bithell Games, it released Tron: Catalyst past month. The crippled was developed successful collaboration with Disney and Pixar Games, and is acceptable wrong the satellite of Tron.

And arsenic for John Wick, helium precocious cameoed successful spinoff Ballerina, and John Wick 5, erstwhile again starring Keanu Reeves, is successful development, though we're not definite erstwhile it volition travel out. Director Chad Stahelski precocious said he's inactive trying to enactment retired however to marque Keanu Reeves successful John Wick 5 marque consciousness fixed the ending of 4. Meanwhile, Keanu Reeves reportedly pays a institution a fewer 1000 dollars a period to get the likes of TikTok and Meta to instrumentality down imitators.

Lionsgate has confirmed it has a John Wick AAA video crippled successful the works, though it has said thing astir it.

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