Yakuza

In Real Life

Dudes, This Guy Wants You To Play His Game

11:20PM January 20, 2012 | Brian Ashcraft

You might not know Toshihiro Nagoshi. But once you see his face, you’ll never forget it. More »


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Yakuza: Dead Souls Trailer Is A Feeding Frenzy

5:30AM January 19, 2012 | Pierre Bienaimé

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. More »


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Melodramatic Binary Domain Trailer Takes You Into Human/Robot Wars Of 2080

4:30AM January 12, 2012 | Evan Narcisse

Developed by the same team that’s made Sega’s open-world Yakuza games, Binary Domain‘s a futureshock shooter that imagines the robot servants of the future rebelling against their human masters. You know, basic Skynet stuff. More »


In Real Life

This Man Will Die Working For Sega

6:00PM December 8, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »


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The Hobbies Of Yakuza: Dead Souls’ Gangsters

6:40AM December 1, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

Sure, you know that the next Yakuza game from Sega is leaving any semblance of gritty crime drama behind. But did you know that the guy with the bionic machine gun arm likes to cook? We can only hope that there’s culinary side missions in Yakuza: Dead Souls when it hits next March. Using zombie meat, of course. More »


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Yakuza 5 Sounds Massive

7:57PM November 22, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

The next Yakuza game may be the first to spur a complete overhaul of the series, upcoming Ryu Ga Gotoku 5 to offer five playable locations, seamless transitions between battle and chit-chat and an overall game of “massive volume”. [Andriasang]


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Prepare To Yakuza In 2012 With Dead Souls

3:20AM October 6, 2011 | Mike Fahey

You’ve survived the perils of Demon’s Souls. You’re fighting your way through Dark Souls hell. And next year? Next year you’ll likely breeze through Yakuza: Dead Souls, the newly-renamed North American version of Yakuza of the End, as it is a completely unrelated product. More »


In Real Life

Let These Gangster Hostesses Welcome You To Sega’s TGS Booth

2:15PM September 16, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Sega’s booth is busier and better this year than it has been in years. Part of that is because there’s a Yakuzapalooza going down, with the franchise’s PSP sequel drawing crowds, but it’s also because this year Electronic Arts doesn’t have a booth of its own. More »


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You Probably Won’t Play This PSP Game

12:40PM September 2, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Unless you live in Japan or import it, that is. The last Yakuza spin-off PSP title, Black Panther: Like a Dragon New Chapter, wasn’t localised for the West. More »


News

Sega Forms New Studio Just To Make Gangster Games

4:30PM August 31, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »