With the Japanese release of Yakuza 1&2 HD coming at the end of the year Sega has taken it upon themselves to get the word out, and show off the game’s new coat of paint. To do this they got the voice actors for Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima to…
I always love when developers reveal the games that they most want to make, regardless of money, publicity, potential for franchise, yadda yadda yadda. It’s refreshing to get the unadulterated, honest truth of their passion projects, and even if they aren’t always that likely to come to fruition. Nintendo-centric site…
…And so my epic trilogy of posts regarding the potential HD rerelease of Yakuza 1 and 2. We laughed, we cried, and we learned things. Ok, well we learned that Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition, as it has been officially titled, is coming to Japan. We also learned that…
Before you say it–hell, before you even think it–no, this is not the official “major announcement” from Yakuza’s official website. The Japanese gaming mag Famitsu is reported to reveal the HD re-release of the first two Yakuzas in their newest issue, along with a Japanese release date of November 1st and a price…
A lot of exciting and…not so exciting Sega announcements have been making the rounds over the past couple of weeks, and it seems that the company’s Japanese gangster epic is not being left out. Mere days after a leak outed the Yakuza 1 and 2 HD Collection in Japan, Yakuza’s…
You read right, there’s a Yakuza 1 & 2 HD release on its way to the PlayStation 3. A listing for it went up over at Sega’s site and was taken down soon after, but as we all know, the internet never forgets. The game is scheduled for a December…
When I first saw Yakuza: Dead Souls revealed, I wasn’t entirely thrilled. I’m one of those people who doesn’t quite get the obsession with shoehorning zombies into everything, no matter how unfitting it is. Given how based in reality the Yakuza series is, I couldn’t have been more uneasy about…