First shown at Amusement Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, and subsequently given a partial release worldwide*, Blue Motion Games have announced that their third release, John Wick: Continental Pursuit, is now available for all venues to get their hands on.
John Wick In Arcades
The asterisk above is for the caveat that back in May, the game became available to international markets, with a limited release in the United States as Dave & Busters had a timed exclusive for most of the summer. That period was in effect until today, August 11th. As such, if you placed an order for one with a Blue Motion Games authorized distributor, then it should be arriving any time now; if you were waiting, now is your chance to add one to your game room.
In the event that you missed our coverage on this one, I filmed the press conference here, while adding some early beta game play a little later. A press release was also recently sent out with some basic details. I have not yet had a chance to visit my local D&B to check out the complete three-level game (when the game hit in May it also had the one level we saw in Vegas, but later the additional levels were added), but I hope to resolve that here soon. That will be delayed a little bit though after injuring my foot. You can also visit the official game page here.
This arcade exclusive title puts you into the role of John Wick, with the cabinet partially mimicking his 1969 Ford Mustang; as the subtitle of the game implies, you are on the move across different parts of the world with each 3~4 minute long level taking place in New York, Miami, and Mexico. As Salim at BMG had emphasized to me a few times, there are multiple paths that can be taken on each level, so you can go back and get a little different experience on each play.
The cabinet hasn’t seen drastic changes from what we saw in Vegas (as in a complete redesign); it has a 75″ 4K screen, a 3DOF motion base, wind & vibration effects, a 5.1ch sound system, and each player gets a metal light-gun (although I do believe that received some aesthetic changes from what was seen in Vegas). The brochure for it can be looked at/downloaded here.
There are several videos of this one that have popped up on YouTube already since it’s been at Dave & Busters all summer. I have seen people asking questions like “where’s the blood?” given that John Wick is not a kids movie, but the game doesn’t have any of that, and D&B isn’t a Chuck E. Cheeses. I’d guess it’s for the same reasons that we’ve rarely seen blood in modern arcade games, as the industry self-polices their games to avoid any of the controversies it has been known for in the past(also, some locations/chains may make requests on games). I do think it’d be nice for the option to be there so locations that want it can do so, but it also might be under the licensors purview that they don’t want that in there.
Hopefully I’ll get a chance to go and check one of these out to do a review here soon – if you’ve played it, what did you think?
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