The Yakuza series creator, Toshihiro Nagoshi, has expressed that he may use Western actors in his unannounced next game. Nagoshi, who is currently running Nagoshi Studio, wants to create a cinematic gaming experience that appeals to a global audience. Over the years, the Yakuza series, known outside Japan as Like a

It's a possible end of an era for Sega, according to a recent Bloomberg report. NetEase Games is in final negotiations to poach Yakuza and Super Monkey Ball creator Toshihiro Nagoshi from Sega. According to sources close to the deal, Nagoshi is going to set up his own team to create new games, though there hasn't be

Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is now the president and CEO of the newly-established Nagoshi Studio. The new studio is based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, under NetEase Games. Back in October 2021, Nagoshi announced his departure from Sega's Ryu Ga Gotoku (RGG) Studio. At the studio, he created and developed the popul

Yakuza franchise creator Toshihiro Nagoshi has announced that he will be leaving both Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio (RGG Studio) and SEGA. As part of the same announcement, Sega and RGG Studio has also confirmed that they are currently working on a sequel to Yakuza Like A Dragon. This news follows our report from August 2021

Talk about a crappy stunt to pull off. Days after Square Enix-led action RPG Visions of Mana rolls out for PC and consoles, this bombshell dropped: publisher NetEase Games has been cutting staff from Visions of Mana developer Ouka Studios since Spring 2024. NetEase plans to close the studio as soon as the game has s

A new game development studio called Anchor Point Studios has been established by NetEase, and it's led by Paul Ehreth, the lead designer of Control. They're based in Barcelona, Spain, with a secondary office in Seattle, USA, and will concentrate on making action-adventure games for both consoles and PCs. Ehreth, wh

Chinese game company Papergames has a brand new addition: Nintendo's Kentaro Tominaga. According to Kantan Games consultancy CEO Dr Serkan Toto, Tominaga will be working on an open-world take on the mobile dress-up game Love Nikki. It'll be called Infinity Nikki, a cross-platform open-world dress-up adventure game.

Thanks to Sega's global success with RPG title Yakuza: Like A Dragon, the company may consider releasing Atlus and Persona RPGs to other platforms and consoles in the near future. According to a Famitsu interview with Sega's Chief Strategy Officer and general manager of Asia and Japan Studios Shuji Utsumi, he said t

Sega has made its latest Yakuza spin-off game official after a premature PlayStation Network reveal: Lost Judgment is the next entry in the Judgment series and is slated for a 24th September, 2021 worldwide release. Here's what we know so far. https://youtu.be/GAuXy7B0B2M New Plot Just like any Sega action-adve

Retired Nintendo artist and designer Takaya Imamura, who helped Nintendo create The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Starfox characters like Fox McCloud, said to IGN that the Nintendo racing series F-Zero isn't dead. It's just a series that is "hard to bring back" without a "grand idea". Imamura stated that the pi

Sega's going through some corporate restructuring, and with it some changes. A major one includes the position of the Yakuza series general director Toshihiro Nagoshi. The main man behind Kiryu Kazuma and Ichiban Kasuga's exploits will retire as chief creative officer (CCO) of Sega (via Famitsu). He will instead ser

Fans have been clamouring for Yakuza franchise protagonist Kazuma Kiryu to appear or guest star as a playable character in a fighting game (especially Bandai Namco's Tekken) for a while now. In an interview with Red Bull France, when asked about why Kazuma Kiryu hasn't been featured in any fighting game, Yakuza fra

Good news for long-time Sakura Wars fans: the upcoming Project Sakura Wars title will be out in Japan this 12th December. And fans will be able to put down 14,800 yen for a limited edition featuring a Sakura Wars CD song collection and an A4-sized 72-page art book featuring illustrations from the series. The bad news?

Platform: PS4 Genre: Lawyer/detective game with Yakuza-style ass-kicking Sega has a pretty expensive and detailed Yakuza game engine to make games on thanks to the success of Toshihiro Nagoshi's Ryu ga Gotoku/Yakuza series in Japan and Asia. But it's starting to feel a bit tiring now, which is why I'm glad the Kiryu K