There’s a recurring trend in the gaming industry where developers and studios rush to announce alive action adaptation only for it to never materialize. Look no further than Netflix’s fumbling of its Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation, a fan-favorite franchise whose streaming debut was announced and subsequently halted after two years …
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The Last Yakuza: Life and Death In The Japanese Underworld is the first book that I was ever asked to write. The yakuza are Japan’s mafia. They’re not a monolithic group — it’s a blanket term for over 20 different criminal organizations that share some similarities, particularly a quasi-family structure …
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! originally debuted in 2014, just before its parent series Yakuza got its big break outside of Japan with Yakuza 0. While entries after that game quickly came westward (and now launch the same day worldwide), Ishin remained out of reach for audiences outside Japan until now. …
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