yakuza
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Yakuza Fan Is Fixing The PS2 Original’s Mistakes
It’s easy to forget in 2022, now that it feels like we get a new or remastered Yakuza game every six months, that for a very long time the series was MIA from Western shores, in large part down to the disastrous decisions made by Sega for the original game’s release back in 2006.
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Yakuza Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi Won’t Be Making Smartphone Games
After leaving Sega, Toshihiro Nagoshi set up a new studio called Nagoshi Studio in Tokyo. Earlier this year, NetEase Games described the wholly-owned subsidiary’s M.O., stating it “develops high-end titles for worldwide release, with a primary focus on the console software business.”
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One Of The Yakuza Games For PSP Now Has A Full English Fan Translation
A pair of Yakuza games for the PSP, unreleased in the West, are about to (unofficially) see the light of day. Sega’s Yakuza is one of the company’s flagship series, iconic for many things including its weirdness and wackiness. While most of the games have been released outside of Japan, two of them weren’t. Two Yakuza titles for the…
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Lost Judgment: The Kotaku Review
I loved Judgment, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s 2018 spinoff from the Yakuza series. Arriving just as the main games were getting ready to go through the biggest changes in their long-running history, along came a lawyer and his himbo best friend to keep some beloved old Yakuza fundamentals alive.