Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have just announced Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii at Tokyo Game Show 2024’s RGG Summit presentation.  Firmly filing under the category of ‘game ideas so good I can’t believe they haven’t happened already’, this smaller-scale adventure stars iconic series madman Goro Majima as the protagonist. After washing
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The recently shut down PS5 shooter Concord reportedly cost $400 million to make, according to Sacred Symbols podcast host Colin Moriarty. While the title was referred to as “the future of PlayStation” internally, the studio’s culture of “toxic positivity” hindered its development. Concord was potentially Sony’s most expensive game to make In a recent episode
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Y’know, every game became Chinese so gradually, I didn’t even notice. Between studios wholly owned by mega-publishers like Tencent and NetEase, their sub-labels like Level Infinite, and now various independent studios like Sword of Convallaria developer XD, the Chinese games industry is investing heavily in triple-A games of all kinds. To see this content please
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It’s a pirate’s life for me, and it’s a pirate’s life for Goro Majima, recurring eyepatched anti-hero of the used-to-be-called-Yakuza series. He’s the star of the just-announced Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, a game I can only applaud for the brazen straightforwardness of its title. Whatever Sega were drinking when they signed off
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