Anarchy Reigns Release Date Announced

Anarchy Reigns will launch on January 8, 2013 in the US and January 11, 2013 in Europe, SEGA has announced.

The multiplayer brawler will support up to 16 players and has a suggested retail cost of £19.99/€29.99/$29.99.

We heard rumours earlier this week that the game would release on these dates, and it appears they were correct. It's a relief, as for a time the game's future looked uncertain following its sudden delay in the West back in May.

Speaking about the new release date, Platinum Games' executive director Atsushi Inaba said, "Focusing on online play with Anarchy Reigns presented a new challenge for us here at PlatinumGames. Very few games fall under its genre of a melee-based online multiplayer brawler, so I think we’ve been able to supply a new kind of excitement that you can’t find anywhere else. While some time has passed since its Japan release, I look forward to having gamers in North American and Europe enjoy the Anarchy."

Anarchy Reigns will release simultaneously on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Is Anarchy Reigns Coming to the West in January?

Japanese developer Platinum Games is well known for titles like Bayonetta and Vanquish. And its latest game, Anarchy Reigns (known as Max Anarchy in Japan) was supposed to come to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the west this past July. It still came out in Japan, but was inexplicably delayed mere weeks before its western launch.

Publisher SEGA later noted that the game would be released in Q1 of 2013, and it seems that SEGA was true to its word, at least according to online retailer Amazon.

Website Xbigy Games notes that if you go to Amazon and search for Anarchy Reigns, both the PS3 and 360 versions of the game show up. The PS3 version of the game has no date affixed to it, but the 360 version does: January 08, 2013.

January 08, 2013 is a Tuesday, which is the traditional day of the week games come out in North America. It could be a placeholder, but then again, it may not be. We’ve reached out to SEGA for confirmation of the date, and will update when we hear back.

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