The shadowy underworld of Japan's Edo Period sets the stage for the rise of the Yakuza, Japan's most notorious brotherhood of gangsters. From the intertwining paths of peddlers and gamblers, to the ...

In an unexpected turn of events, Yakuza 5 Remastered becomes a co-op game, thanks to some valiant efforts by a highly skilled ...

The Yakuza series is filled with memorable characters, but these stand out from the crowd as the best of the bunch.

The only place where the mod doesn't quite work with an AI-controlled Ichiban is in free-roam. That aside, dance battles with ...

Image: Push Square. SEGA's Yakuza or Like a Dragon series has been around since the days of the PlayStation 2, but only over the last half a decade or so has it really started to seep into the ...

Few video game characters stick around as long as Kazuma Kiryu, the long-time lead of the Yakuza / Like A Dragon franchise--and even fewer have as commanding a presence as him.

Yakuza has a penchant for exaggeration, this game really goes for it, and it works. Ichiban is an expressive character, sometimes to the point of parody, but it's endearing and often inspiring.

While Sakamoto’s focus has largely been on Yakuza, he did also work as lead game designer on the 2021 release Binary Domain, a cult classic sci-fi shooter about robots who can pass as humans ...

As the yakuza weakens, many ex-members are looking to build new lives outside of organised crime and finding it difficult to reintegrate with a society which doesn’t trust them, writes Michelle ...

Prime Day PS5 deals are still going strong, and throughout this week's sales, my backlog has gotten even more ridiculous - if ...

Yakuza bosses call him frequently, asking for advice or for help smoothing over a conflict. The police, too, sought him out for updates on gang activity.