Legendary developer publisher Sega has released their latest integrated sales report, giving us a look at some of the incredible numbers that have been reached to date by their most successful flagship franchises, first-party or otherwise.T...

One of the cooler bonuses in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise is the ability to play the game as Yakuza protagonist Kiryu Kazuma. It brings an entirely different light to the game that further cements its development by Sega's Ryu Ga G...

For many western '80s kids, Akira was their first introduction to anime, with Katsuhiro Otomo's dystopian classic being one of the first anime movies to get a major push by the mainstream media. For me, however, my first anime encounter was...

Normally Sony waits until closer to the end of a month to unveil the next PlayStation Plus offerings, but this switch may have been flipped a little early. Right there on the PlayStation website (if it's not, just refer to the image above a...

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios unleashed two trailers for the upcoming Ryu Ga Gotoku Online (aka Yakuza Online) at TGS yesterday and it contains one hell of a sight for fans of the series. Apparently, Haruka has had enough of everyone's nonsense, be...

Sega has released the opening movie to the upcoming detective brawler known as Project JUDGE, currently in development for PS4 by the face-smashers at Team Yakuza.The bemusing two-minute intro features multiple characters, including our har...

While the Kiryu DLC for Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise was already confirmed to be heading West, we now know when you'll be able to nab it. Starting on launch day (October 2), Kiryu will be available for free for two weeks. There is ...

With the Tokyo Game Show still a few weeks away, I didn't expect to hear anything about Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios' (Yakuza devs) new game until then. With all the Pre-TGS info coming out, we now know exactly what that game is. Going as Project ...

It's still kind of surreal to me that the Yakuza series is actually popular in the West. I've been playing them for roughly one-third of my life and I never expected the series to break beyond its niche. It has truly been a wild ride and I'...

The demo for Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise is now available today. It will give you a slice of both the action and adventure parts of the game by featuring the opening boss fight with Shin and a segment where you rebuild Kenshiro's ...

For nearly as long as I’ve been playing Yakuza games, I’ve always read comments from fans saying, “These games are like Shenmue”. At first glance, that definitely sounds accurate. I even remember making such a claim ...

During Sega's panel at PAX West today, the company announced that a demo for the upcoming Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise would be hitting the PSN next week. You'll be able to get a taste of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios' latest on September ...

Following up the release of head-cracking remake Yakuza Kiwami 2, publisher Sega have released a questionnaire to the community, asking about their thoughts on the Yakuza games and their remakes.It's all fairly standard stuff, but of note i...

When it comes to remakes of classic games, the ideal goal should be to improve aspects of the source material that were lacking due to technological limitations. While taking some liberties with plot and structure, I still feel that Yakuza ...

The hits keep coming from Sega CCO Toshihiro Nagoshi, who opened up to Edge Magazine about several major moments in Sega history. In this instance he shares some inside info on the Yakuza series: it was actually pitched to Microsoft and Nin...

The brawl is back on. Sega released a patch for Yakuza 0 on PC that fixes crashes during cutscenes, gameplay, a fight in Chapter 10, and while rematching an opponent in the Pocket Circuit mini-game. If these notes sound strangely familiar, ...

While we all wait with baited breath for Sega to release its PS4 remaster of 2009's Yakuza 3, we can check out this batch of newly-released screenshots, showing off the famous (infamous?) underground fighting colosseum.For those yet to jour...

When the PC port of Yakuza 0 works, it works well enough, but there's an unfortunate lack of consistency. Some players have struggled to make it through certain substories without crashing, others are dealing with stuttering issues, and som...

I've always been aware of the Yakuza series but never had a chance, or even a desire, to play the games. Much of that was ignorance -- I didn't really know what these games were like. Maybe I had assumed they were Japan's version ...

In Sega's recently-released financial earnings report for Q1, the legendary developer-publisher appear to have listed a PC port of the awesome action-RPG Yakuza 6: The Song of Life.Originally launching on PS4 earlier this year, the sixth ma...

[Given that Yakuza 0 is out for PC today, we're bumping the review up.] Japan in the '80s was a wonderful time for business owners. The yen was exploding in value and money was flowing like water. If you were involved in any kind of bu...

Yakuza 0 comes to PC this week. It feels like word of mouth for Sega's strange and sweeping action-adventure romp through 1980s Japan is at an all-time high, and with its budget price, I'm hopeful lots of curious players become hardened fan...

Nintendo Switch and Yakuza seem like two great tastes that'd taste great together, but the match will remain little more than a pipe dream for the foreseeable future. In an interview with Gameblog.fr, Yakuza series producer Daisuke Sato ope...

If you've been itching to get a taste of Yakuza Kiwami 2, then boot up your PS4 and get to the store. Sega has just unleashed a demo that lets you take a look at the remade Sotenbori district from the original (which was also in Yakuza 0 an...

During the relatively uneventful PC Gaming Show there was one announcement that stood out -- Sega's commitment to PC gaming, which just happened to reveal during a short clip that they were bringing Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami to the PC. I m...