Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name serves to fill a gap in Kiryu’s story, takes place after Yakuza 6: The Song of Life’s ending, and concludes near the end of Yakuza: Like a Dragon’s (Yakuza 7) story. While it’s a spin-off title and shorter than mainline Yakuza entries, Gaiden’s five chapters…
Category: Yakuza
RGG Direct Fall 2023
RGG hosted their fall games Direct as a follow-up to the RGG Summit that took place earlier this year, and with it came a ton of new information focused mostly on Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Infinite Wealth seems to be shaping up into one of RGG’s biggest games yet, and with Gaiden releasing in…
RGG Summer Summit 2023
The season of Yakuza news is upon us, and, with that, comes the first formal update on upcoming games from RGG Studio this year. With two games on the horizon – Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth and Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name – the conference focused on revealing release…
Like a Dragon Ishin: A Historical Yakuza Spin-off
The latest addition to the Yakuza franchise released at the end of February this year in the form of a remake for Yakuza: Ishin; originally published in 2014, but never localized for western gamers. With its new title, remade graphics, and translation, Like a Dragon: Ishin is a game that long-time fans have been wanting…
Gaming Highlights of 2022
I am never lacking for new games to play, whether they be actual new releases or just games I haven’t gotten around to trying yet. My Steam library is filled with titles I’ve purchased and plan on playing at some abstract point of time in the future. Occasionally I will play those games, or there’ll…
RGG Summit 2022
September was a great month for Yakuza news with several exciting reveals in RGG Studio’s annual live-streamed game announcements. I am a relatively new Yakuza fan, having started Yakuza 0 last May. Ever since then it’s been full steam ahead, and it took me just over a year to complete all eight mainline games. I…
Ode to Yakuza, a “Serious Crime Drama”
I started my journey with Yakuza over a year ago, on May 8th of 2021, to be exact. I can’t remember how I was turned onto Yakuza, whether it be by a friend’s recommendation, internet memes, or some combination of both. All I know is that it has become one of the best series I…