If you're looking to relive the Yakuza series through music, SEGA has apparently decided to fill that void through Spotify with several soundtracks. As part of the releasee and hype for Yakuza: Like a Dragon in Japan, SEGA loaded nearly every game soundtrack to the streaming music service. Right now you can listen to Yakuza 0 (Side A/Side […]
Netflix's Giri/Haji, Japanese for "duty/Shame", is a cop thriller with a lot on its mind. It's not just a crime thriller, but a quirky, dream-like exploration of family ties, guilt and duty. It's about a Japanese cop (Takehiro Hara) who trails his Yakuza brother (Yosuke Kubozuka) to London for committing a murder there that sparks […]
If you enjoyed the English dub track for Ryu ga Gotoku Studio's Judgment, you'll no doubt appreciate one for Yakuza: Like A Dragon. It turns out that very well may happen, thanks to a listing spotted by a ResetEra user. The listing was spotted on the credits list page for PCB Productions, the studio […]
One of the more anticipated games in Japan coming in a few week's time is Yakuza: Like A Dragon, which will drop on January 16th, 2020. We haven't been talking about the game much since neither SEGA or Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have been willing to talk about a western release yet. So we can […]
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is the seventh core entry in the Yakuza series. It's slated to come westward sometime in 2020. Before it officially debuts, it will receive an official demo. Producer Masayoshi Yokoyama confirmed the news to Famitsu in a recent interview. While a demo release date is still up in the air, that […]
It feels like such a long wait until we finally get Yakuza: Like A Dragon, the seventh core Yakuza entry. Luckily, Sega has plenty of content to tide us over until then. Yakuza 4 Remastered is now available for PlayStation 4 owners, as it's officially been unlocked as part of the system's Yakuza Remastered Collection. […]
SEGA announced today during Tokyo Game Show 2019 that the next Yakuza game, Yakuza: Like A Dragon, will be headed to the west in 2020. The game has officially been slated for a Japanese release for January 16th, 2020 for the PS4. We also learned that actors Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ken Yasuda, and Kiichi Nakai will […]
Kousuke Oono's The Way of the Househusband is about Tatsu, a feared Yakuza who has left the life to devote himself to his new career woman wife. She works as a designer and he's committed himself to being the house husband. He doesn't do crimes, street fights or murders anymore, but that doesn't mean he […]
SEGA rolled out Yakuza 7: Whereabouts of Light and Darkness, the next entry in the Yakuza franchise on Thursday. The game is set to release in Japan on January 16, 2020, and then in the Americas and Europe sometime later in the year. Yakuza 7 will be a huge gamechanger for the franchise, bringing with […]
This week, SEGA announced that they would be bundling three Yakuza games into one release with The Yakuza Remastered Collection. The collection includes Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4, and Yakuza 5 with the first of the three currently in the PlayStation Store. Yakuza 4 will be coming on October 29th, while #Yakuza 5 will be headed […]
It looks like we're going to be finding out more info about the next Yakuza game from SEGA next month and what it will completely entail. The news comes from GameBase, who had an interview with one of the game's producers. Aside from the news that it's currently called Shin Ryu Go Gotoku/New Yakuza, we […]
In their latest investor report, Sega has included a note that the next main game in the Yakuza series might be launching in the current fiscal year. Which means it could release before March 31, 2020. This is far from a hard release window, but it is the first time Sega has discussed a release for […]
SEGA recently pulled Yakuza spinoff Judgment from the shelves in Japan after character model Pierre Taki was arrested on drug-related charges. According to IGN, SEGA has already completed replacement work on the character Kyohei Hamura, who will now sport an original character design. From IGN: The character of Tojo Clan affiliate member Kyohei Hamura, who was previously […]
Sony has uncharacteristically announced its PlayStation Plus lineup for November early, with Yakuza Kwami and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition headlining the program. It's the end of the month, and you know what that means free g-… oh. It isn't the end of the month. Actually, October just started but it seems Sony wants to get […]
The customs and cultures of crime are set to collide on the streets of London, with Boardwalk Empire's Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting) set to take on the criminal underworld as a lead in BBC One/Netflix's upcoming thriller Giri/Haji. Hailing from writer Joe Barton (Humans) and Jane Featherstone's Sister Pictures and originally announced in May 2017, the eight-part series […]
Yakuza producer Daisuke Sato has talked about the possibility of Yakuza 3,4 and 5 on PlayStation 4, saying it's possible we could see the games make the jump to the current generation. Yakuza seems to be in the midst of its biggest mainstream surge in quite some time, possibly even ever at the moment. With the release […]
Sega has announced a western version of Yakuza Kiwami 2, which will release both digitally and physically with a special edition steelbook. The steelbook will only be available to those who pre-order the first run of the game, but it will feature art inside the cover which features Kiryu and his rival Ryuji Goda, the Dragon […]
Sega has pulled Yakuza 6's demo from the PlayStation store as some players were able to access the game for free. Well, this is a bit of a blunder. People were excited about the prospect of Yakuza 6's demo. The game is hotly anticipated by the community and the demo was supposed to give a […]
During a live broadcast today, Sega provided some interesting information on the upcoming remaster Shining Resonance Refrain, that is coming to the Western market as announced just the other day. The first thing we learned about the western remaster is that the game will not be censored. No cuts were made for the western version, which means we will […]
SEGA has announced that Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is getting a delay, but to make up for it, they will be putting a demo out later this month. It feels like Yakuza's stock rose with its last release. Yakuza 0 really seemed to catch on with more mainstream and Western audiences embracing the more out there aspects […]
