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On a recent Sega livestream, Yakuza executive director and producer Toshihiro Nagoshi talked about the company’s…
Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the next game in the long-running crime/bike-throwing series, and the first of the post-Kiryu…
What better way to celebrate 60 years of Sega, 40 years of Pac-Man and the Yakuza games than by drinking sake.
In Japan, tattoos and the yakuza often seem inseparable. Not every gangster has a tattoo and not everyone with a…
Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada has finally responded to the popular fan request that Yakuza protagonist Kazuma Kiryu join the cast of Tekken 7. Apparently, the Bandai Namco board members believe Harada himself is a better fit for Yakuza. I’ll take either option, to be honest.
SuzuKube of French-language game site OtakuGame.Fr traveled all the way from Martinique with something very specific…
I loved Yakuza movies growing up, and the Yakuza series reminds me of the best of them. I actually enjoyed films…
The Yakuza 7 mobile is on the streets of Seoul, hoping to get PS4 owners excited for its January release in South Korea. In case you missed it, read Kotaku’s impressions of the game from this year’s Tokyo Game Show. [Thanks, Sang for the tip!]
He’s back! Kazuma Kiryu makes an appearance in the latest Yakuza 7 (aka Yakuza: Like a Dragon) trailer. The game, which Kotaku checked out at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, stars new Ichiban Kasuga as the new series protagonist.
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At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Archipel (makers of the excellent Toco Toco TV series) ran a series of very cool little interviews after bumping into famous Japanese games developers, like Yakuza’s Toshihiro Nagoshi.
Sometimes, between fighting monsters or zombies with swords or guns or whatever, you want to kick back and enjoy a…
The end of the year is always busy here at Kotaku. For many of us, it means a string of reviews to write and games…
Since 2005, Sega has been churning out Yakuza games. They’ve pretty much all followed the same formula: beat-’em-up…
The first true post-Kiryu Yakuza game has just been shown off in Tokyo, and Yakuza 7 is changing up more than just…
The Yakuza games and their spin-offs have long starred some of Japan’s biggest celebrities. Now that some of those…
Yakuza 6 closed the book on the story of fabled gangster Kazuma Kiryu, but Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s relentless release…
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On the last night of E3 2019, as I teetered on the precipice of rest, I talked to Scott Strichart, localization…
Judgment, out tomorrow for Playstation 4, is the latest game from the makers of Yakuza, and it thrusts players into…
Sega’s been giving out Yakuza games like candy, and I am not complaining. Last year, Yakuza Kiwami’s remaster…
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Yakuza Kiwami 2 is the latest game in the series to be making the jump from PlayStation to PC. It’ll be out on May 9.
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