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Obscure 2012 Yakuza Game Is Getting A Fan Translation

It's not Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! , sadly, but it's something!

By Luke Plunkett Published October 7, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

Netflix’s Kate Did Do Right By Japanese Tattooing

Tattooers get their proper credit at the end of the film

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 15, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

The Japanese Internet Reacts To Netflix’s Kate

Movie critics and fans chime in and give their opinions on the film

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 13, 2021

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Yakuza Director & Jet Set Radio Artist Is Back At Sega

That headline makes it sound like it's two guys, but Ryuta Ueda handled both jobs himself

By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2021

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Lost Judgment’s New DLC Is Very, Very Interesting For The Future Of The Series

If the series' big star is risking its future, maybe Sega can just change the star

By Luke Plunkett Published September 3, 2021

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Report: Yakuza Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi Leaving Sega To Join NetEase

Nagoshi has been at Sega since 1989, and has his own studio

By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2021

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Yakuza‘s Kiryu Joins The Growing Super Monkey Ball Cinematic Universe

Jet Set Radio , Sonic the Hedgehog , and now Yakuza collide in the next Super Monkey Ball

By Ian Walker Published August 18, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

Report: Judgment Series Is Ending Over PC Version Disagreement

Takuya Kimura's talent agency has never seemed enthusiastic about computers.

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 12, 2021

After Playing Pachinko, Man Gets Irritated And Goes On Rampage In His Car

Thankfully no one was seriously injured during the four-minute rampage.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2021

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Next Yakuza Spin-Off Has A Playable Sega Master System

The second Judgment game skips Virtua Fighter in arcades for Alex Kidd at home

By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2021

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Lost Judgment Producer Says Worldwide Release Tripled His Team’s ‘Struggles’

And it’s not just a matter of English localization

By Ian Walker Published June 8, 2021

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Virtua Fighter 5 Coming To PlayStation 4 Next Week

After teasing the classic fighting game franchise’s return last fall, this morning Sega announced Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown, a PlayStation 4-exclusive update to a game that’s almost 15 years removed from its original release at this point. Oh, and it’s launching June 1, also known as next Tuesday. Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown still…

By Ian Walker Published May 25, 2021

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Future Yakuza Games Will Stick With Turn-Based Battles

Sega confirmed today that the Yakuza series will continue on as a turn-based RPG. This comes after the success of the last entry, Yakuza: Like A Dragon, which left behind the fast-paced brawling the series once featured for more tactical, turn-based combat. However, action-craving fans can still get their fill in the Judgment series of…

By Zack Zwiezen Published May 7, 2021

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Sega Announces Judgment Sequel

It’s called Lost Judgment and once again stars celebrity Takuya Kimura as lawyer-turned-detective Takayuki Yagami. According to Sega producer Toshihiro Nagoshi, with this sequel Judgment has officially become a series. For Nagoshi, the keyword for these games will be “action”, in contrast with the RPG turn-based style of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The difference between…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 7, 2021

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It’s Very Important To Nintendo That Publishers Don’t Work For The Yakuza

After being delayed by technical issues that resulted in a conference call full of screaming Fortnite children, the long-awaited Epic vs Apple court trial is finally underway this week. As part of the proceedings, Nintendo provided documents that include a publisher contract—though honestly, “include” might be a stretch. Nintendo submitted 25 pages of nearly-nothing, blacking…

By Nathan Grayson Published May 3, 2021

Culture

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is about slowly and joylessly working through our backlog, somehow dripping with sweat and covered with coal dust. Where did all this sweat-enhancing coal dust come from? Speaking of backlogs, I’ll be spending my weekend free time with the newly released PS5 version (also out for Xbox Series X/S) of Yakuza spinoff Judgment.…

By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2021

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There’s A Full Console Port Of Virtua Fighter 5 Inside Yakuza

The Yakuza series has contained playable Sega minigames for a while now, from Outrun to Virtua On, but folks digging around in the code for Yakuza: Like A Dragon and Yakuza 6’s new PC release have found something a bit more substantial: basically the entire Xbox 360 version of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, which…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2021

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Tattoos Removed For Anime’s Chinese Release

In the anime The Way of the Househusband, the main character, former yakuza boss Tatsu, is covered in tattoos. But for Chinese release, all that ink has been removed. Tattoos are connected to yakuza culture, with members getting elaborate, expensive designs. Not all yakuza get tattoos, just as not all people with tattoos in Japan…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 12, 2021

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Sega Lawyers Threaten Wrong Website Over Yakuza Piracy [Update]

There are lawyers somewhere out there working for Sega HQ in Japan who have been tasked with hunting down the people responsible for pirating Yakuza: Like a Dragon. And they are not doing a good job. UPDATE March 30: A Sega representative tells Kotaku “Earlier this week, one of our games was incorrectly flagged on…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2021

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If Sega Won’t Make A New Monkey Ball, These Guys Will

Monkey Ball creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is busy doing Yakuza stuff right now, and in his absence Sega has spent the last decade neglecting the series. Not to worry! Rolled Out is here, looking exactly like Monkey Ball only for the fact that there’s a rodent in there. Let me be clear: this is not a…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2021