News

Yakuza Designer Now Has More Incentive To Never Leave Sega

Toshihiro Nagoshi has undergone many changes while at Sega. His latest? He’s now slated to become Sega’s Chief Creative Officer. Good news, because he said he’d never leave the company. [Famitsu]


January 19, 2012
PlayStation

Yakuza: Dead Souls Trailer Is A Feeding Frenzy

SEGA’s new trailer for the zombie-ridden Yakuza: Dead Souls skips the foreplay of human connection and solidarity. The shambling hordes come first, picking their way through Tokyo’s red light district with a hunger for human flesh… and bone marrow, and organs, and brains.


December 8, 2011
In Real Life

This Man Will Die Working For Sega

Today’s Shigeru Miyamoto news shows that not even the biggest names in development are around forever. One man, though, plans on sticking around forever. One very brown man.


October 21, 2011
PlayStation

Modern Technology Brings Us Computer-Controlled ‘Friends’

In gaming vernacular the consequences of one’s actions are usually marked in body count, or regime changes, or city destruction. So I’m not expecting the consequences that I see unfold in a gunfight in the middle of a future Tokyo: Hurt feelings, obstructionism and… sulking?


August 31, 2011
News

Sega Forms New Studio Just To Make Gangster Games

Sega’s Toshihiro “Brown Man” Nagoshi, the creator of the Monkey Ball series, has revealed today that he’s formed a new studio at Sega which will deal exclusively with games for the Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza) series.


August 30, 2011
News

But What Will The Yakuza Man Say?

Tomorrow, Sega’s Toshihiro Nagoshi, developer of Yakuza games, is making a “serious announcement” — perhaps a brand new title? Dunno, sounds serious. Still, this is an announcement of that announcement. Consider yourself announced! [ファミ通]


June 21, 2011
PlayStation

The Robopocalyptic Story Of Binary Domain

This is the story of Binary Domain, a cautionary tale of a rise of the robots wrapped around a cover-based, third-person shooter. It’s a game I was pretty neutral on after playing at E3 2011, but potentially good sci-fi fodder.


June 15, 2011
News

Yakuza Designer Sniffing A White Line

Toshihiro Nagoshi, who picked making video games over making porn, took a whiff of “Black Dragon” cologne, which is doing an in-game collaboration with the upcoming Yakuza: Of the End.


April 21, 2011
News

Make Games Or Porn? He Picked Games

Back before Sega game designer Toshihiro Nagoshi turned golden brown, he was just another kid from rural Japan, moving to Tokyo, trying to make it big.


April 20, 2011
PlayStation

Why Zombie Yakuza Game Is Being Delayed So Long

Zombie parody game Yakuza: of the End was slated for release on March 17. Then, the unthinkable happened; on March 11, an earthquake and an ensuing tsunami laid waste to Japan’s northeast. The game, which depicted a city in ruins (pictured), was one of many delayed out of respect to the victims.