In Real Life

Yakuza Gets A Plastic Model Car

And it’s covered in stickers. Because Japanese gangsters just love stickers?


May 20, 2010
News

We Might Get Yakuza 4 After All

Having campaigned for months for a localised version of Yakuza 3, many fans of the series feared that releasing the game so close to other big PS3 titles – like Final Fantasy XIII – would hurt its sales. Nope!


April 23, 2010

Reader Review: Yakuza 3

Kotaku AU

Do you have what it takes to get a review published right here on Kotaku? Rohan does, as he elbows SEGA’s gangster-themed adventure in the face.


April 21, 2010
News

Next Yakuza Game Is PSP Bound

Project K is the newest entry in SEGA’s Japanese crime franchise known as Yakuza. Unlike previous titles, it will not be a home console game. It is also getting a new protagonist.


In Real Life

Not All Yakuza Girls Are "Just" Hostesses

One at least is a porn star. But not Sayaka Araki. She’s a fashion model, a DJ and a business tycoon.


March 22, 2010
In Real Life

Get Inside The Real-Life Yakuza

With the release of Sega’s Yakuza 3 going down well with many, let’s take a look at the actual Yakuza, Japan’s “mafia”, and see just how powerful – and accepted – they are in contemporary society.


March 18, 2010
In Real Life

Meet Yakuza 3′s Real Life Tattoo Artist

One of the most interesting things about Yakuza 3 is how you keep running into men with enormous, fantastic tattoos. Well, those tats are the work of one man: Kazuaki Kitamura.


Yakuza 3 Review: A Foreign Film Festival

It’s funny, for all the Japanese games you and I have ever played – and they number in the hundreds, if not thousands – few of them are Japanese in the way that Yakuza 3 is.


March 12, 2010
News

Yakuza 3 Players Say A Lot More Was Cut Than Hostess Bars

Sega has made cuts to the Western version of gangland brawler Yakuza 3. The publisher says that hostess bars are gone. People playing the game say a lot more than that is missing.


March 10, 2010

Yakuza 3 Has More Cuts Than You First Thought

So you thought the hostess bars were the only thing cut from Yakuza 3, a very Japanese game that’s being brought to the West by Sega? Nunh unh. There are way more changes than that.