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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 8 Intriguing Games To Greet October With
6.10.2023
Happy October. We’re in spooky month territory at long last, even if it has felt a little warm for Fall. Many of us are also looking forward to a three-day weekend here in the States, so that means a nice long chunk of time to get some gaming in—and you can pair it with a pumpkin spice latte! Read...
The Silly Story Behind The Weirdest Xbox Exclusive
20.9.2023
Remember when the Xbox Series X and S launched with a Yakuza game, but the PS5 didn’t? That was weird, right? For such a long time the Yakuza franchise had been closely tied to PlayStation. But, at least for a few months, the then-latest game in the series skipped Sony’s next-gen machine for Xbox’s...
Hands-On: Like A Dragon Gaiden Brings Super Spy Silliness To The Yakuza Formula
23.8.2023
I’ve only played about a dozen hours of a Yakuza/Like a Dragon game because I swore a blood oath that I wouldn’t play another one of those until a friend of mine played the Danganronpa games, but Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, shows a lot has changed since I Yakuza Zero....
Hands-On: Like A Dragon Gaiden Brings Super Spy Silliness To The Yakuza Formula
23.8.2023
I’ve only played about a dozen hours of a Yakuza/Like a Dragon game because I swore a blood oath that I wouldn’t play another one of those until a friend of mine played the Danganronpa games, but Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, shows a lot has changed since I Yakuza Zero....
New Like A Dragon Trailer Turns Kiryu Into A Stylish Super-Spy
18.8.2023
On Friday, Sega revealed the second trailer for its latest upcoming Yakuza game, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, which sees longtime series protag Kazuma Kiryu take on the role of a gangster super spy with Spider-Man gadgets and explosive cigarettes at his disposal. Read more
Yakuza Games Scrub A Bunch Of People From The Credits, Including Series Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi
27.6.2023
The Yakuza Complete Series dropped on retailer Good Old Games last week, bundling the first seven games in the franchise in the one offering. It is a great deal, but fans testing out the release to see if there was anything different about it have turned up something weird.Read more
Sega Sounds Like It’s Jumping On The $70 Game Bandwagon
16.5.2023
The shift to $70 games for the “next-gen” consoles has been slow but steady, and another major publisher could soon be making the jump. Sega said in its latest earnings report that it’s currently reviewing its games to see where price increases make sense, moving in the direction of 2K Games...
The 9 Worst Reasons We Haven’t Finished A Game
27.4.2023
Did you know most people don’t actually finish video games? A game like Elden Ring can sell 20 million copies, but if you look at the trophy completion percentage, only a little under half of the people who bought the game on PlayStation actually saw it through to the end. There are a lot...
Bringing Authenticity And Humor To Like A Dragon's 'Western Renaissance'
24.3.2023
The Like a Dragon series (formerly known as the Yakuza series) is the most video game ever. This melodramatic crime drama series about a bunch of burly gangsters with the power to rip their suits clean off from their lapels has wacky plotlines where you hire a chicken as a real estate employee...
The Yakuza Devs Should Cast These Celebs In Their Next Hostess Club Minigame
17.3.2023
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Why Are Video Games So Afraid Of Everyday Life?
3.3.2023
Go look through your Steam Library, flick across the spines of your PlayStation collection or gaze up at the shelf with all your Xbox games on it and tally for yourself: how many games are there set in the world you live in?Read more
I Met The Most Annoying Yakuza NPC In Like A Dragon: Ishin!
27.2.2023
We’ve all been there. You initiate a conversation with some NPC off the side of the road. Suddenly, you’re trapped in the world’s longest and most non-skippable conversation. Your fingers hurt as you mash the buttons really hard. Your eyes glaze over as the other person goes on and on and on....
The Yakuza Devs Are Stunting On The Entire Gaming Industry
25.2.2023
We here at Kotaku get plenty of tips via email. Some are spam, others are error-filled hate messages, and a few are serious allegations that require serious investigation. So it’s refreshing when something comes in that just points us toward something breezy and cool, as was the case with a recent...
Like A Dragon: Ishin!: The Kotaku Review
23.2.2023
In the opening chapters of Like A Dragon: Ishin!, a samurai becomes an exiled criminal after his father is assassinated in front of him. A year later, his brother offers him safety and power in exchange for his loyalty. All he has to do is turn a blind eye to the powerful lords who could have...
Yakuza Producer Surprised Y’all Find Majima So Sexy
30.1.2023
Creators can’t control how their creations are received once they enter the world. Case in point, one of the key people behind the popular and long-running Yakuza series apparently had no idea how many people, especially women, found the series’ recurring, one-eyed character Goro Majima to be...
The Samurai Yakuza Game Will Guest-Star A World-Famous Wrestler And An Internet Hottie
26.1.2023
Sega and its Ryu Ga Gotoku studio announced that some big stars in the worlds of professional wrestling and Hollywood will make cameos in the upcoming samurai Yakuza spin-off, Like A Dragon: Ishin!Read more
31 Of The Biggest Games Coming In 2023
10.1.2023
Another year, another 12 months where we get to collectively complain about how there are too many games and not enough dollars in our wallets and hours in our days to play them. As such, it’s probably best to start looking ahead and planning what you want to prioritize in your gaming allowance...
River City Girls 2 Is The Beat ‘Em Up That Dreams Are Made Of
20.12.2022
When the year began, there were only a handful of video games that piqued my interest, and chief among them was the spin-off to the classic beat ‘em up series Kunio-Kun (or River City). River City Girls 2 finally arrived in the U.S. on December 15 after shifting release dates all year, and the game...
Yakuza's Cabaret Minigame Is Making A Triumphant Return
29.11.2022
Every Yakuza game has some kind of weird side hustle going on where players can sink hours of their time into what’s essentially a management sim. In Like a Dragon is was a confectionary store. In Yakuza 6 it was a baseball team. In one of the series’ two upcoming games, though, it’s going to...
Yakuza Producer Admits One Piece Was A 'Massive Influence’ On Like A Dragon
17.10.2022
Have you ever had the niggling feeling that Yakuza: Like a Dragon felt an awful lot like an anime, with its mixture of palpable melodramatic drama and the cognitive dissonance of its wildly entertaining “filler” side-quests? Your feelings are now validated, because the game’s head writer says...