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PlayStation Plus loses Yakuza, Borderlands, and more 8 more games soonJul 19, 2023 - VG247PlayStation Plus’s catalogue of games is undergoing a few changes this month; we’ll be in receipt of 18 new games, including some great shooters, but we’ll also be losing ten games. Of the ten games leaving the service, three of them are Yakuza titles, which we’ll be sorry to see go. So, unless you fancy splashing the cash or also have an Xbox Game Pass membership, this will be your last chance to play these games for free. The ten games leaving PS Plus are: Read more Yakuza’s GOG collection is missing credits for key devs and studios, including the series’ creator and producerJun 26, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe recent release of the Yakuza series on GOG has been tempered by the notable removal of several developers and even entire studios from the games’ credits. Read more Yakuza series' GOG release removed credits for PC port devs and series creator Toshihiro NagoshiJun 25, 2023 - VG247The entire Yakuza series was recently released on DRM-free PC games retailer GOG, but it seems a number of devs have been removed from the credits. Generally games releasing DRM-free is quite a good thing, as it means you own the game without needing to worry about having a store client to run it. Recently, Yakuza 0 through 6 was released on GOG, a site where all games are DRM-free, with the entire series receiving a steep discount too. It's a great deal, honestly, but it does come with one caveat - as spotted by Reddit user Timo653 on the Yakuza subreddit, both Lab42 and QLOC were removed from the credits. On top of that, series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and producer Daisuke Sato have also been removed from the credits, as well as a number of others. The two developers had been responsible for handling the PC ports for all of the games (Lab42 porting Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1, QLOC porting Kiwami 2 to Yakuza 6). So it's obviously quite strange that they would both be removed from the credits considering they are the reason the games are even on PC in the first place. Read more PS Plus August Extra and Premium lineup revealed, and it’s packed with YakuzaAug 11, 2022 - VG247The next batch of games being added to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium has been revealed by Sony. For owners of PS Plus Extra, you'll be able to pick up three different Yakuza titles, which is just the beginning for Yakuza fans or those keen to try out the series for the first time. Ultimately, the full Yakuza series is going to be coming to PS Plus before the end of 2022. So, if you've never tried the games out, now's the time to start. Read more New Xbox Games Pass July additions revealed - some fan favourites returnJul 5, 2022 - VG247Another month, another sweet selection of new games coming to Xbox Game Pass. This time around, fans of the Yakuza series are due for a massive airdrop of titles that cover early events in the series, while lesser known games like PowerWash Simulator and Last Call BBS offer a fresh experience for subscribers. For those not already on board, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate runs you $14.99 / £10.99 a month and supplies access to a collection of titles that rotate in and out of the Game Pass lineup. Available right now on Xbox Game Pass for all platforms are Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 - all excellent JRPGs that put you in the shoes of Japanese Yakuza in an action packed adventure across the criminal underworld. Having left the service following an initial run, it's great to see the games back on Game Pass. If you’re a PC player, you can also pick up Last Call BBS - a nifty puzzle game that’s up for grabs right now for those who like a good head scratcher. Read more The voice of Yakuza's Kiryu has a Christmas singleDec 24, 2021 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunToday I made a life-changing discovery. Takaya Kuroda, the man who voices Yakuza's beloved protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, is also the lead singer of a band. They're named Takaya Kuroda & Goodfellas and they have a Christmas song out. Not only is this excellent news, I can't get over the fact it straight up sounds like Kiryu delivering some festive cheer. So get comfy, bang this on, and let Kiryu's warm tones wash over you like mulled wine. Read more Yakuza 0, Kiwami 1 & Kiwami 2 are leaving Game Pass soonDec 15, 2021 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunYakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza Kiwami 2 are leaving Xbox Game Pass on 31st December. If you need time to absorb this news, please, take it. Back? Okay, so actually we don’t have much time left now. You must play these beat 'em ups before they disappear into the realms of non-free (sort of; you know what I mean). Here’s why. Read more Yakuza producer would like to create “a completely different Sonic” game if given the chanceNov 16, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAs part of the celebration for Sega’s 60th anniversary, they’ve sat down with long-time Yakuza series producer and director Daisuke Sato to talk about his history with the company. Although he’s got years of Yakuza games to his name, including Yakuza: Like A Dragon, the series he’s never gotten involved with but would like to is Sonic. Heck, maybe that’s a Sonic game even I would play. (more…) SEGA's 60th Anniversary CelebrationOct 13, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsCome Celebrate SEGA's 60th Anniversary with us on Steam! Get Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for FREE from October 9th-18th! While you're around, check out some of our new HIGHEST DISCOUNTS. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36333614/315f9d663058145fa4a9d2b7639c5bd518d687c2.jpg Grab our EXCLUSIVE FREE MINI-GAMES that we’re giving away every day from October 15th – 18th. These brand new games were created just for SEGA’s 60th and are available for a LIMITED TIME ONLY. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Be sure to come back every day to claim the daily mini-game! We look forward to seeing you there and hope you enjoy celebrating 60 years of SEGA with us! Yakuza's getting a new live-action movie adaptationSep 24, 2020 - EurogamerFans of Yakuza could soon have another avenue in which to sate their desire for crime-hued soap opera and sudden-onset absurdity, thanks to a new effort to adapt Sega's long-running video game series for the movie screen. That's according to Variety, which reports that Sega has teamed up with US companies 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content in order to create a new live-action Yakuza film. Few details have been shared about Yakuza's big screen effort, but 1212 say the series "offers us a new playground in which to set compelling stories with complex characters in a unique environment that audiences have rarely seen before". Read more Yakuza: Like A Dragon is coming to PC this yearMay 7, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Following a little leak this week, Yakuza: Like A Dragon is now officially announced for PC, coming later this year. This opens a new chapter in Sega’s RPG series about mobsters with hearts of gold, starring a different wrestledad in another city. Like A Dragon also shakes up the action, going from a beat ’em up to a turn-based RPG action. Huh! Come watch. (more…) Looks like Yakuza: Like A Dragon is coming to PCMay 5, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Going by a little Steam database leak, it seems that Yakuza: Like A Dragon is coming to PC – and presumably soon-ish. Sega’s wonderful beefy-dads-with-hearts-of-gold RPG series only started coming to PC in 2018, 13 years after it started on PlayStations, and now it looks like we’re skipping a few games ahead. Set after Yakuza 6, Like A Dragon introduces a whole new star, turning away from best dad Kazuma Kiryu. In another break from tradition, it also turns the beat ’em up combat into a turn-based RPG. Curious! (more…) More from the Best of Japan SaleMar 5, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsIn celebration of SEGA’s Best of Japan titles, we have a small gift for our Yakuza fans - custom animated library art that you can use in your Steam libraries! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967900/36623603266d9041546d9301d50cd2fabb1e6b1e.jpg On top of that, everyone that has purchased the standard edition of Yakuza 0 or Yakuza Kiwami will be upgraded to the Deluxe Edition. Your new Deluxe Edition content, including the alternate library art, is located in the game folder in your Steam library – To do this right click the game in your library and click on Properties Go to the local files tab, and then browse local files {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967900/fffde20763e5eb89e0c8c03217b28098f286f35a.png You'll find them under your "EXTRAS" folder as "LIBRARY ASSETS" Now, to update your library tiles and banners, just follow the steps below! 1. Go to the title in your library and right click the banner – or to the tile you want to change. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967900/3e60fd425b2a1bac48ab2c40ec00b733458a8ad4.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967900/a6850002955195d439fdffa51a45b4199ae358d4.png 2. Go to the folder where your Steam folder is – and make your way to the LIBRARY ASSETS folder under EXTRAS {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967900/64f48aa0ac00f733a5f4040b8bc578d362d00646.png 3. Enjoy your new animated banner! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967900/22319eda13cfc8dcde5767fbf22ad18c794cb63b.png SEGA Best of Japan SaleMar 3, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsSEGA’s Best of Japan sale is here! From now until 10th March 5pm GMT, save like a boss on the Yakuza series, Valkyria Chronicles, Shenmue, Binary Domain, and more! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32967907/831ff4d16dd15fbccd608911b1d2b38f59705d97.jpg Complete Your Collection bundles mean there’s never been a better time for Yakuza and Valkyria fans to body slam a bargain and punch up your Steam library. Shop like a dragon and buy now! I visited locations from Yakuza and Shenmue in real life and it was very surrealNov 12, 2019 - PC GamerDon't ask me why, but I'm really into visiting filming locations. In October I went to North Bend, Washington to eat lunch in the diner from Twin Peaks. I once made my girlfriend drive to Wales in the rain so I could wander around Portmeirion, the village where they shot cult '60s TV series The Prisoner. I've also been to the Water Gardens of Dorne in Seville, the Ghostbusters firehouse in New York City, the set of The Good Place in Los Angeles, and… well, you get the idea. I just really like going to places that have been in things. But I'd never been anywhere from a videogame before, which inspired me to take some time out of a recent holiday to Japan to visit locations from two of my favourite series, Yakuza and Shenmue. I've spent many memorable virtual hours in Kamurocho and Yokosuka beating up street punks, feeding kittens, and looking for sailors. But what would it be like to actually go there? I was based in central Tokyo for a few days, which made getting to Kabukicho (the real-world basis for Yakuza's seedy Kamurocho district) easy, and Yokosuka (the setting for Shenmue, about 40 miles south of Tokyo) slightly more difficult, but basically still easy because of Japan's super efficient rail network. I decided to start my journey on the mean streets of Kabukicho, the neon-splattered stomping ground of the world's nicest gangster, Kazuma Kiryu. I'm not sure why they renamed it Kamurocho in the Yakuza series (and, more recently, its brilliant spin-off Judgment), but it's obvious the second you arrive that it's the same place. This has been the setting for multiple Yakuzas and is one of those game worlds that almost feels like a second home to me. Of course, I went at night to experience the full force of all those colourful signs. After navigating the crowds in Shinjuku Station, which is said to be the busiest in the world and absolutely felt like it, it was just a ten minute stroll to the iconic red gate of Kabukicho. As fans of the Yakuza series will know, this is a red light district, stuffed with dodgy bars, love hotels, host and hostess clubs, and other debauchery. You can't walk an inch without a barker trying to lure you into a club or bar, which makes being there a fairly intense experience. Kudos to the artists and sound designers at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, because they absolutely nailed the loud, relentless atmosphere and cluttered, people-stuffed streets of Kabukicho. It was deeply surreal actually being in that space for real and I was even able to navigate using my knowledge of the games. Everything I expected was there: vending machines, convenience stores, tiny ramen shops, sex clubs, arcades with UFO catchers, garish advertisements for preened hosts and hostesses, and I even found a batting centre. It started raining when I arrived which made the place look even more chaotic and atmospheric, with neon signs reflecting in the puddles and people rush...Yakuza Kiwami headlines Humble's Monthly bundle for DecemberNov 1, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Humble’s Monthly games bundle will be morphing into the more expensive Humble Choice at some point before the end of the year, but until that happens it’s business as usual for the monthly subscription service. In what’s quite possibly going to be the last Monthly bundle as we currently know it, the early unlock games for December have now been announced as Yakuza Kiwami, My Time at Portia and SoulCalibur VI. You’ll need to be a Humble Monthly subscriber to get them, of course, but if you’re not you can join up right now for $12/month. (more…) Soulcalibur 6, Yakuza Kiwami and My Time at Portia are just 10 in the December Humble MonthlyNov 1, 2019 - EurogamerHumble has announced that the early unlock games in the December Monthly Bundle are Soulcalibur 6, Yakuza Kiwami and My Time at Portia. It's another trio of solid picks after last month's incredibly strong group of early unlocks. Of the lot, Yakuza Kiwami seems like the biggest steal. The Yakuza series has grown massively in popularity in recent years. If you've been interested to see what Kazuma Kiryu's bizarre antics are all about, then this bundle is the perfect place to start as Yakuza Kiwami is a remake of the first game. Read more Yakuza producer hints at rest of series coming to PCAug 21, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Sega this week announced western releases for another three Yakuza games, another three stories of kind-hearted mobsters helping everyone offering fatherly advice to children and adults alike and smashing thugs with bicycles. Yakuza 3, 4, 5 are the latest coming our way and… well, Sega haven’t actually confirmed PC releases yet. Seeing as the series grew on PlayStation, it’s starting there. But asked this week whether the rest of the series is coming to PC too, Sega’s Yakuzoids avoided giving a straight answer and I’m totally reading that as “Shhh! The PR people won’t let us talk about it yet.” Please, Ian Sega, hop to. (more…) A new Yakuza game will be unveiled next monthJul 24, 2019 - PC GamerWhenever life is getting you down it's helpful to remember that the Yakuza games exist. The past few years have seen PC ports of the first two Kiwami games and 0, and while the most recent mainline game, Yakuza 6, still hasn't made the jump, Sega now considers the series a "multi-platform" one.  So it's worth getting excited that a new Yakuza game will be unveiled next month, and it'll be the first since Kazuma Kiryu's story concluded. There's not much info regarding who will star in the next generation of the series, but the below teaser, posted by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's Twitter account, suggests Yakuza Online protagonist Ichiban Kasuga will at least appear in the game. The Tweet promises a press conference on August 29. It's an exciting crossroads for the series: after seven main games and the recent solve 'em up spin-off Judgment, the shedding of Kiryu sees the Yakuza series at a crossroads. Will it still be set predominantly in Kamarucho? Will karaoke return after its devastating absence in Judgment? Only time will tell. One thing seems fairly certain, though: it'll launch of PS4 before it comes to PC, so prepare for a gruelling wait. Phil has had the great pleasure and responsibility of reviewing the Yakuza PC ports, and the verdicts have been favourable. The most recent port, Yakuza Kiwami 2, was described as "a return to form for the singular crime series". Podcast: The strongest friendships in gamesMay 17, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunYou re a good person, reader, and I will always believe in you, no matter what. No, not you. The person behind you. No, to the left of… No, the other person. The one in the green– No, you, with the… NO. The person BEHIND you, I said. The person with– Oh great they ve walked off now. This whole thing has been a waste of time. My only friend among you is gone because we re several sentences into this intro and none of you can understand how pointing works. I hope you re all happy. Here s your god damned podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show. Honestly. (more…)