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 […]
Good news for Yakuza fans: we now know when, exactly, we’ll be getting the translated English version of Yakuza 5 — a title once presumed to be lost outside Japan. Series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi says the reason we’re getting it is solely due to fan demand: that the decision to localize the game was the […]
No sooner does America finally get a greenlight for their own translation of Yakuza 5, the latest (’til now) title in Sega’s Japanese crime syndicate simulator, than Sega dumps a ton of new content we’ll have to beg for. So the cycle continues. Sega announced today at Tokyo Game Show that they’ll be remastering and […]
Sega’s open-world crime-themed action series known as Yakuza (because it is about the Yakuza, you see) seemed doomed to a Japan-only existence for the foreseeable future after its parent company expressed future plans to significantly diminish console output. Fortunately, even though the interest in Yakuza is niche, and the new game is for a last-gen […]
Hey, the United States isn’t the only country with gangsters. They do just fine on that front in Japan, thank you. And that latest video game take on Japanese Yakuza life, Yakuza 5, will be out in the U.S. next year on PS3 so you can educate yourself. Sony and Sega announced the game will […]