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Yakuza’s Forgotten Spinoff Deserves More Love
Black Panther: Like a Dragon New Chapter is one of only three games in the Yakuza series never make it to the West. That should change.
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Bringing Authenticity And Humour To Like A Dragon’s ‘Western Renaissance’
The Like a Dragon series (formerly known as the Yakuza series) is the most video game ever. This melodramatic crime drama series about a bunch of burly gangsters with the power to rip their suits clean off from their lapels has wacky plotlines where you hire a chicken as a real estate employee, manage a…
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Sega, Please Let Us Play The Yakuza Samurai Spin-Offs
In 2022 Yakuza is a pretty big series in the West, as we saw yesterday when eight games made it to PlayStation Plus. But it wasn’t always this way! Between the release of Yakuza 2 and 3 things were looking incredibly dicey for English-speakers, and there were real fears that if Yakuza 3 didn’t sell…
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Sega’s Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Is Making Yakuza 8
In October 2021, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi confirmed he was leaving the studio he helped found. Joining him in the departure was long-time series director and producer Daisuke Sato. In a new interview with Weekly Famitsu, the studio’s new boss Masayoshi Yokoyama talks about how these departures have impacted the studio and what’s next for…