Super Monkey Ball creator promoted in Sega reshuffle
Sphere of influence grows.
Super Monkey Ball mastermind Toshihiro Nagoshi has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer, Sega has announced.
Yakuza 4 News
Sega creates Yakuza Studio.
Sega has announced the development of Yakuza 5 and the formation of Yakuza Studio.
Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi heads up the new team. According to Japanese magazine Famitsu (translated by Andriasang), Yakuza Studio is not a Yakuza-exclusive developer, despite its name. In fact, its first game is Binary Domain.
Following that game's launch, Yakuza Studio will create Yakuza Black Panther 2 for PlayStation Portable, the sequel to the PSP spin-off. In Japan it launches in spring 2012.
Yakuza series ships 5 million globally
Yakuza Of the End does 400k in 2 weeks.
Five million Yakuza games have been shipped globally, Sega has announced.
Japan's top-selling PS3 title of 2010 named
Place your bets.
Yakuza 4 sold more copies than any other PlayStation 3 game in Japan last year, according to new data.
EU PlayStation Store Update 23rd Feb
Dragon Age II, LEGO SWIII, Yak 4 demos.
Demos for Dragon Age II, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and Yakuza 4 headline today's PlayStation Store update.
Both DAII and LEGO:SWIII are 1.5GB files, so leave yourself plenty of time to download them.
New games (free to trial) are Alien Breed 3: Descent (7/10 on Eurogamer), TNT Racers (7/10 on Eurogamer) and The Undergarden (7/10 on Eurogamer). What do you mean we favour a certain review score over others? Where is your evidence?
Bonus mode for Yakuza 4 special edition
Steelbook Edition packs in the extras.
The limited Steelbook Edition of Yakuza 4 includes an exclusive game mode for SEGA's forthcoming PlayStation 3 gangster epic.
PlayStation Plus users get it first.
Impending gangster sequel Yakuza 4 gets a playable demo this month, publisher SEGA has announced.
PlayStation Plus members get a headstart on it from 16th February, before the riff-raff jump in on 23rd February via PlayStation Network.
The demo will let you try out all four playable characters ahead of the PlayStation 3 exclusive's full release on 18th March.
Yakuza 4 has over six hours of cutscenes
More than treble Dragon Age II.
Japanese gangster game Yakuza 4 comes stuffed with a mind-bending 384 minutes of cutscenes to watch. That's more than six hours worth (6.24 approximately)!
PS3 exclusive coming spring 2011.
Yakuza 4 will be released in Europe and North America in Spring 2011, SEGA has confirmed.
Yes, another one.
There's yet another Yakuza game in the works, series director Toshihiro Nagoshi has confirmed.
According to Japanese mag Famitsu (translated by Andriasang), the new game has been in development alongside PSP title Black Panther Yakuza Chapter, and will be released on the PS3.
It looks like the fifth main Yakuza game, although Nagoshi refused to officially name it.
English Yakuza 4 will have hostesses
Back by popular demand.
SEGA has confirmed that the western version of Yakuza 4 will feature hostesses.
Yakuza 4 heading to Europe in 2011
Spring release for SEGA's latest epic.
SEGA has announced that PS3 exclusive Yakuza 4 is heading to "the West" in spring 2011.
While PSP narrowly outsells DS.
PlayStation 3 is the best-selling console in Japan for the week ending 21st March, thanks in large part to the launch of chart-topping Yakuza 4.
SEGA delivering in March 2010.
SEGA, a day after announcing Yakuza 3 for the West, has revealed a Japanese date for Yakuza 4.
Yakuza 3 won't go west, says SEGA
US launch ruled out, "no plans" for Europe.
The third instalment in the Yakuza series isn't going to make it outside of Japan, by the looks of things.
Fifth Yakuza game in development
Contemporary setting, different style.
SEGA firebrand Toshihiro Nagoshi has revealed that work has already begun on a fifth game in the Yakuza series, known as Ryu Ga Gotoku in Japan, exclusively for the PS3.