TojoHQ, a Yakuza fansite, recently noticed the return of the official English Sega webpage for the Yakuza franchise. After proceeding past the age-gate, visitors can check out the profile pages for the Yakuza games that have been released in the West or are going to be released in the West. Do so by visiting the Games category at the top of the site. Among those games is the game that …read more
Congratulations to Sega! Yakuza series will be ten years old this year (original Japanese release was on December 10th) and the franchise has sold 7.5 million in total global sales, according to Gematsu and Games Talk. This is a good milestone considering those of us outside of Japan have missed a few entries and are now catching up with Yakuza 5. It’s a strong property for Sega in Japan overall. …read more
Atlus have announced that they will bring FuRyu’s 3DS RPG The Legend of Legacy to North America and South America sometime in Fall 2015. The game will be available for retail and eShop. Atlus has offered their own detailed summary of the game, which you can view at this link. Legend of Legacy is a turn-based RPG set on the island of Avalon where seven adventures explore for personal reasons, …read more
Not long after the announcement of an expanded release and new characters for Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, Sega announced another new team that will be coming to the crossover fighter. Quenser Barbotage (voiced by Natsuki Hanae) from Heavy Object will be a playable character, with Froleytia Capistrano (voiced by Shizuka Ito) serving as an assist character. Quenser will be able to summon other characters from his series as part of …read more
It’s been more than a year since Blade Arcus from Shining hit Japanese arcades. With this new year we have the arrival of an expansion of this fighting game and it will be titled: Blade Arcus from Shining Version 2.0. The updated game is coming to Japanese arcades during this summer. This is the poster art from the game, found at this sega-mag article. The article also contains a handful …read more
AtlusUSA recently unveiled their DLC plans for Etrian Odyssey II Untold: The Fafnir Knight, set to come out on August 4. Starting on the week of the game’s release, and every week after that (for three weeks, with the last pieces being added on the last week of August) a couple pieces of DLC will be made available during the month of August every Tuesday. Some DLC will be available …read more
Sam Mullen, localization producer at Sega, recently had a panel at Momocon (a fan convention in Atlanta), where he talked about Japanese to English game localization. The presentation starts from the perspective of a fictional company that wants to release an (also fictional) game. From there, Sam starts by looking at the various roles that are typically found in a localization team, and the tasks assigned to them. Then, the …read more
While she’s not one of the main characters or part of Yu’s Investigation Team, Margaret is still a key character in the various games based on Persona 4. In Persona 4, we learn that Margaret is Igor’s new assistant, a role previously assigned to her sister, Elizabeth. Igor is the proprietor of the Velvet Room, a place transcending dream and reality, and has been featured in every main Persona game. …read more
Sega celebrated its 55th anniversary on June 3rd, and Sega of Japan posted a new promotional video to commemorate the occasion. The video takes a look at both the past and present Sega, including their consoles and games like NiGHTS and Virtua Fighter, but also the company’s more recent Yakuza and Total War games. It also features footage from Persona 5, and a look at some of the CGI animations …read more
Meet Flavio, Ranger/Survivalist and a bottomless well of camaraderie and goodwill. Atlus USA uploaded a trailer introducing waiting gamers to the jovial archer (“The Upbeat Survivalist”, as the trailer stylizes him,) which you can check out after the break. It’ll offer viewers a preview of Flavio’s English voice acting, too. As a reminder, Flavio as a character is exclusive to the game’s Story Mode, where characters and their classes are …read more