Sega and Creative Assembly have announced the first DLC pack for their hit strategy game Total War: Three Kingdoms. Called Eight Princes, the new standalone campaign will be set about 100 years after the events from the "Three Kingdoms" pe...

A modern-day interpretation of ActRaiser feels like a gift straight from the heavens. The fondly remembered Super Nintendo classic was a novel concept back in the day, and all these years later, it still stands out. ActRaiser offered an int...

Atlus has announced that it will be teaming up with Gallery Nucleus to put on a Persona 5 Royal and Catherine: Full Body art gallery in LA next month. Similar to what Sega held last year for Yakuza 6, this exhibition will be a showcase of v...

[Update: I mistakenly reproduced an image of winner Eri Kamataki which I believed was the official press photo from publisher Sega but was, in fact, a photo by Famitsu. This was a genuine mistake on my part and is on me as author. I apologi...

If you've been waiting to jump into Valkyria Chronicles 4, your patience has paid off. Sega has released a "Complete Edition" digital bundle for the strategy game that includes the main title and all of its DLC for $49.99. Available for PS4...

Developer Creative Assembly has unleashed mod support for Total War: Three Kingdoms, its latest entry in the long-running Total War series. Allowing users to tinker with a great many aspects of the game, mods have become a staple in the ser...

Sega has announced a brand new Nintendo Switch title starring international idol Hatsune Miku. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Mega39 is currently in development for a Japanese release in 2020.Of no surprise to anybody, this latest jaunt featuri...

You aren't the only one who fondly remembers ActRaiser. Sega and Ace Team are hoping to bring back the esteemed Super Nintendo game's action/platforming/town-building vibes with SolSeraph. As an added bonus, they even recruited ActRaiser co...

Sega's recently announced mobile game based on uber-violent manga/anime series Hokuto no Ken will also be receiving a western localisation, allowing fans to pop heads on iOS and Android devices whilst on the go.Fist of the North Star: Legen...

At a recent event in Taipei, held to celebrate the Chinese launch of Yakuza 5, Team Yakuza producer Daisuke Sato mused on the possibilities of giving the "Kiwami" remake treatment to the Japan-only Yakuza Kenzan titles.Speaking with Bahamut...

Sega's convenient eternal money makers, retro re-releases, are here to say. Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz, Sega executive vice president of publishing John Clark notes, in regards to the approach of retro content: "When do you ever sto...

Those of you ready to crack heads in Kamurocho (well, those of you who aren't currently doing it in Judgment), should mark down July 10 in your calendars, as Sega and Team Yakuza has announced that they have new information to reveal on tha...

Watching a little old niche series like Yakuza rise to stardom was a wild thing to witness. Playing those silly games in my living room while Sega waffled on whether or not to localize them was a markedly different time: now it would b...

Total War: Three Kingdoms, Sega's wonderful new strategy game based on ancient China, will be getting some gory DLC next week. Releasing on Thursday, June 27, 2019, the "Reign of Blood" effects pack will bring a bunch of blood and "mature-...

After the reception to the sometimes overly dark (torture?) Sonic Forces, I hope Sonic Team is ready to course correct. But we won't truly know until 2021, which is when the developer says Sonic is making his next big splash. Speaking to Ga...

Phantasy Star Online 2 coming west might have been my news of the show for E3 2019. Sure, I get that a translated version has been available for a while, but if you've been paying attention for the better part of a decade, I've been ra...

I thought that by this point, I couldn't be surprised by the Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games series. Each game has, traditionally, been a mini-game collection that tried too hard to copy the Wii Sports formula with diminishing return...

At E3 2019 this year, I had the distinct honor of sitting down with Kazuki Hosokawa (producer for Judgment and Yakuza) from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios and asking him about the future of the series and how each game gets made. As well as gettin...

Last year, Sega announced that it would be remastering the PS3 Yakuza entries for release on PS4. The idea was to have each game playable on a single console and series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi even commented they were being done for...

The announcement of Catherine: Full Body two years ago took me by surprise. While I remember enjoying the original version a lot -- save for its shark jump of an ending -- I was curious why an enhanced re-release was coming instead of a s...

Once upon a time Phantasy Star Online was, in part, synonymous with the Xbox platform. Back when it wasn't so easy to get online on every console, Xbox Live was there to shoulder the weight: so long as you were willing to pay for both Xbox ...

Xbox says that it wants its players to play the best games in the world. It's making good on that promise this afternoon. A bombshell from the Xbox E3 2019 press conference is that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming west next year. You'l...

Publisher Deep Silver has shot done rumors that Shenmue III will be coming to Xbox One. In the source code for the official website of the game, users on ResetEra found references to a possible port for Microsoft's console. This led to spec...

Sega's line of wonderful Switch conversions by M2, Sega Ages, is getting a couple of extra entries this month. Both Virtua Racing and Wonder Boy: Monster World will release on June 27, 2019, on the US and European eShops for $7.99 each. Alo...

As part of yesterday's Mega Drive Mini live stream, in which we learned of the final 12 games headed to the tiny retro console, Sega also revealed the existence of a fun Japanese "Tower" variant, which will include cute Mega CD and 32X add-...