Tag Archives: Yakuza: Of The End

SEGA has released a new video for Yakuza: Dead Souls featuring playable characters Goro Majima and Ryuji Goda. Apparently, Majima is so mad about zombies, he picks fights with them just for the fun of it. Goda, on the other hand, has a prosthetic arm which can transform into a gatling gun. Interesting. Dead Souls, known as Yakuza: Of the End in Japan, will be released in March on PS3, and other playable characters include Shun Akiyama and Kazuma Kiryu. Check out the video of each in action below.

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SEGA has announced Yakuza of the End will be released in March 2012 in the US and Europe on PS3, and is to be renamed Yakuza: Dead Souls for the regions.

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Yakuza: Of the End is a game about Japanese mafia zombies. Crazy? Brilliant? Both? We have no idea. But – seeing as that description probably secretes some sort of pheromone-based Western exec repellent – we weren’t exactly hopeful that we’d ever get to find out. Show’s what we know, though, because the apparent result of a genre-based Mad Libs match looks to be expanding its criminal empire to this side of the pond. According to a European trademark dug up by Joystiq, something called Yakuza: Dead Souls is on the way. Odds are, it’s either a shiny new name for Of the End or a Dark Souls crossover. Which – come to think of it – sounds incredible.

Yakuza 3 director, Daisuke Sato, has said if Yakuza: Of the End were to be localized in Europe and North America, the controls would be changed around a bit.

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Sega’s announced that the Yakuza series as a whole has now shipped 5 million units worldwide. Together with the announcement comes the news the latest game in the series, zombie-themed Of The End, has shipped 400,000 units in its first two weeks on sale in Japan. The series has seen seven titles as a whole: four main titles on PS2 and PS3, and three spin-offs – Of The End, samurai-themed Kenzen and PSP title Black Panther.

Thanks, Andriasang.

It’s hump day. Lucky you. Not much left of the week, or today for that matter, so, no need in trying to escape. Have some short stuff to close it out with instead.

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Sega’s confirmed that Yakuza of the End will release in Japan on June 9.

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SEGA has detailed Goro Majima’s story in Yakuza of the End, who may or may not end up a zombie in the next installment of the series. Spoilers are below. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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Sega’s launched a demo for upcoming Yakuza zombie actioner, Of The End in Japan.

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As if you needed anymore convincing it was essential stuff, Sega’s released two more videos of Yakuza Of The End whilst also confirming celebrity zombies. Yes, celebrity zombies.

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Sega’s revealed a list of Yakuza Of The End’s driveable vehicles, including, according to Famitsu, bulldozers, armored cars and tanks and forklift trucks.

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Still don’t believe Yakuza’s gone zombie? Wake up and smell the 720p coffee, bubba.

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Sega’s released new Yakuza of The End shots. They have zombies, naturally.

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Ok, we’re pretty sure he’s joking about that bit. But whether or not the series trades its hordes of puking zombies for arguably more horrifying hordes of drooling children, Yakuza producer Masayoshi Kikuchi made one point explicitly clear:

“We want to spread the Yakuza franchise into different genres,” he stated.

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No, we didn’t think it was possible neither. But yes, Yakuza has zombies. Who would have thunk it?

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It’s not April. Our little totem thing isn’t spinning for eternity, so we’re not dreaming. We still don’t understand the appeal of Glenn Beck, so we’re not insane.

Yep. This is happening.

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Sega’s announced it’s streaming most of its stage events at Tokyo Game Show live online next week.

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