What does Sega’s cryptic new teaser video mean for Sonic fans? With the revving of engines and the reveal of the letter “R,” what else could it mean? Sega held a special Sonic the Hedgehog-related panel today at SXSW. Among other announcements like a physical release for Sonic Mania, their most vague was the teaser […]
For a while, during the fifth generation of consoles (Playstation 2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, the first XBox), there was a trend of hiding older games inside newer ones. Shenmue had Sega’s arcade titles inside. Animal Crossing had several NES games to find. Metroid Prime had the original Metroid unlockable by connecting it with Metroid Fusion. The […]
Everything you need to know about the American release of Yakuza 0 was revealed by Sega today as they announced the finalized US release date, plus confirmed once and for all a physical release for the game. Yakuza 0 tells the origin stories of Kazuma Kiryu, the rising Dragon of Dojima, and Goro Majima, before […]
Sega has published its E3 trailer for the newest installment (to us, anyway) of their long-running Yakuza series. Japan is still one game ahead of us, but at least the translations are still coming. What can we glean about Kazuma Kiryu, the focus character of this installment, from the new trailer? We know he’s really […]
Sega has published its E3 trailer for the newest installment (to us, anyway) of their long-running Yakuza series. Japan is still one game ahead of us, but at least the translations are still coming. What can we glean about Kazuma Kiryu, the focus character of this installment, from the new trailer? We know he’s really […]
Last December, Sega confirmed Yakuza 0, the prequel game in their long-running Yakuza series, was on track to be published in America. What we didn’t know yet was how long that track was. Today we found out it’s a pretty long track. Yakuza 0 has been announced for “early 2017,” according to Sega. In Japan […]
Want to see the latest Yakuza? Here’s over ten minutes of Yakuza 6, albeit untranslated. During a special livestream, series director Toshihiro Nagoshi led viewers through eleven minutes of the Japanese crime story, which consumers of the island nation will get to play a demo of on January 28. For the time being, all anyone […]
You could say America is behind when it comes to Sega’s Yakuza series. We just got Yakuza 6, we just had Yakuza 0 (the prequel game that comes after it) confirmed for an English translation, and now here’s a trailer for Yakuza 6 — which, for now, is a Japanese exclusive. Much of the trailer […]
Earlier in the year Sega, with the help of Sony, brought over an English translation of Yakuza 5, their open-world Japanese mob simulator. At the time there hadn’t been an English version of a Yakuza game in some time, but they were willing to take the chance and test the market again. The market must […]
Here comes Yakuza 5! It may have come out in Japan in 2012, and there may be sequels in development as we speak, but you don’t get to complain when just getting it at all is a miracle. In this particular game, Sega’s organized crime story focuses on FIVE main characters, and they’ve provided a […]