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News Judgment Reveals Redesigned Yakuza Captain Following Previous Actor's Drug Use Allegations
Judged
The developer behind the Yakuza series and upcoming spin-off Judgment has revealed the latter's redesigned bad guy. Kyohei Hamura is a feared yakuza captain in the game, but the actor who originally played him -- giving him both his Japanese voice and facial features -- was arrested for supposed drug use. Hey, it's a big deal in Japan. When...
News Wisp Circuit Is the Latest Team Sonic Racing Track and Song to Be Revealed
Play that sax
Wisp Circuit was actually the first track to be shown off in Team Sonic Racing, but now we know its name, and of course, the music you'll hear as you play it. SEGA has released yet another song from its upcoming kart racer, and this one is particularly upbeat. To be honest, we're running out of ways to present these tunes; it feels...
News SEGA Releases New Team Sonic Racing Gameplay Trailer as it Gears Up for Launch on PS4
Final lap
Team Sonic Racing is out in a couple of months, and it feels like we've seen very little of the game itself since its delay. Fortunately, SEGA seems to be turning that around, as it's today posted a brand new trailer for the co-op kart racer. With a mix of CG and gameplay, the video certainly looks good -- we're eager to learn whether the...
News Direct Feed Footage of That Turn Based Yakuza April Fools Video Has Been Uploaded by SEGA
Fool me once
One of the better April Fools Day jokes to come out of the video game world yesterday was a "leaked" video of a Yakuza game with turn based combat. It was pretty funny, but the footage of the fake game was very well produced, and many fans wanted to see the whole thing without interruptions. SEGA has obliged, and the four-minute direct...
News Yakuza April Fools Video Shows Turn Based Battles in Upcoming Title
Yakuza, but with damage numbers
The official Japanese Yakuza YouTube channel has released a rather entertaining new video, supposedly leaking footage of the next Yakuza game. The off-screen recording shows fresh lead character Ichiban Kasuga entering combat with a bunch of thugs on the streets of Kamurocho, except instead of immediately dishing out...
News Sakura Wars Returns on PS4 This Winter in Japan, Spring in the West
Blossoming
Sakura Wars is a bit of a cultural phenomenon in Japan, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing about the old SEGA Saturn series. There were sequels on PlayStation platforms, but the dating-sim-cross-JRPG has been largely absent for the best part of 15 years. Now it’s set to make a return on the PlayStation 4, with Project Sakura Wars...
News Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Goes for Gold on PS4
National ANTHEM
You can’t beat a good ol’ Olympics game, can you? While license holder SEGA may have skipped Rio 2016, it’s looking to build upon the likeable London 2012 with Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game. Due out this summer in Japan and next year in the West, the title appears to feature a host of disciplines, including...
News SEGA Spotlights Spooky Team Sonic Racing Track and Music
Haunted Castle
It's that time again, everyone, for another Team Sonic Racing course and its accompanying music to have its five minutes of fame. This time, we're getting a taste of Haunted Castle, which features a song composed by Tee Lopes, the musician who did a great job on Sonic Mania's soundtrack. As expected, it's all themed around spooky...
News Space Channel 5 VR Developer Searching for Ulala's Voice Actor
Can you help?
We’ve been covering games for a decade here at Push Square, but this is a new one to us: the developer of Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash has put out a public appeal requesting information on protagonist Ulala’s original voice actor. “We’ve been looking for Apollo Smile, the voice actor who made Ulala special from...
News Streets of Rage 4 Looks Great in New Gameplay Trailer, But Platforms Are Still Unconfirmed
What's the hold up?
There's a new trailer for Streets of Rage 4, and it's looking sweet. That fresh art style's slick, and the gameplay itself appears to be holding up really well. It's just a brief teaser, but it's got us eager to get our hands on this retro rough-'em-up. Our only issue with Streets of Rage 4 right now is that we still don't know...
News Judgment Will Not Be Delayed on PS4 in the West Following Actor Allegations
Phew
Here's some good news to kick the weekend off: Judgment won't be delayed here in the West! Hurrah! There were growing fears that the game's release date would be pushed back following drug use allegations aimed at one of the title's Japanese actors. It's an issue that's dealt with very seriously in Japan, to the point where Judgment has been...
News New Yakuza Game In Development on PS4, Stars a Fresh Main Character
Ichiban Kasuga's your man
SEGA has confirmed that there's a new Yakuza game in the works for PlayStation 4. It doesn't have an official title right now, but the project will star new character Ichiban Kasuga. Supposedly, the story of Kazuma Kiryu comes to an end with Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, so it's time for a change. Those who have been keeping...
News Good News, Everyone! There's a New Sonic the Hedgehog in Development
No further details
SEGA’s confirmed that a new Sonic the Hedgehog game is in development right now, but it stopped short of expanding on the details. Sonic Team chief Takashi Iizuka made the announcement during an SXSW Gaming 2019 panel over the weekend, where new Team Sonic Racing footage also debuted. Sonic Forces launched back in 2017 to,...
News SEGA Has Released a Team Sonic Racing Trailer That Actually Shows the Game
Customisable karts!
Team Sonic Racing, is that you? We haven't seen Sumo Digital's cooperative kart racer in action for quite some time -- not since before its lengthy delay, in fact. Following a period filled with nothing but new music, a new trailer, put up today following the Sonic the Hedgehog panel at SXSW 2019, finally features some brand new...
News Dreamcast Classic Space Channel 5 Struts to PSVR Soon
Ohhh lala
Well this brings back fond memories, doesn’t it? Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash! is strutting to the PlayStation 4 in the near future – and judging by this trailer, it appears to be very faithful to its Dreamcast forebear. This trailer will prove particularly nostalgic to all five of you who pulled shapes with Ulala back in...
News Judgment Sales in Japan Halted After Voice Actor Arrest, Western Release Under Consideration
Pulled from all store shelves
Judgment has been pulled from physical and digital storefronts in Japan after one of the game's voice actors was arrested for the alleged use of cocaine. Publisher SEGA has stated that the Western release, currently due to hit US and Europe in June, is now "under consideration". Voice actor Pierre Taki plays the role...
News Hold On, Puyo Puyo Tetris Is Now Available Digitally on PS4
What a puzzle
Remember Puyo Puyo Tetris? PS4's second best take on the Russian puzzler after Tetris Effect, the competitive puzzle game combines the block-laying game with SEGA's own Puyo Puyo in great style. Unfortunately, when it launched in the west back in 2017, it was only possible to buy the game physically, which is unusual in this day and...
News Yakuza Studio Has Gone the Extra Mile for Judgment's Localisation
Extra credit
Judgment is the next game from SEGA's talented Yakuza Studio. The title seems to essentially be a Yakuza spin-off in which you play a private investigator named Takayuki Yagami. It's looking pretty great, as you can see in the above new trailer, but a PlayStation Blog post highlights an impressive feature that might fly under the radar...
News Judgment Comes West in June, Early Access for PlayStation Store Purchases
A worrying trend
Judgment, the latest spin-off from the Yakuza franchise, will release in European and US territories on 25th June in physical form. However, budding private detectives can gain early access to the game four days early on the 21st June via a digital purchase from the PlayStation Store. It's an interesting proposition from Japanese...
News Yes, This Is Apparently Sonic in the Sonic the Hedgehog Live Action Movie
Gotta go
That live action Sonic the Hedgehog movie coming later this year? Seemed like a bad idea from day one, and now the internet's freaking out over Sonic's supposed form in the upcoming film. See that up at the top of the article? That's probably him. Apparently, a style guide for the movie has leaked, revealing Sonic's somewhat creepy...
News Judgment Sounds Like a Superb Return to Kamurocho, According to First English Previews
SEGA's onto another winner
A handful of previews for the English version of Judgment are in, and all of them seem very positive. For those totally out of the loop, Judgment -- titled Judge Eyes in Japan -- is something of a Yakuza spin-off. It takes place in the same fictional red light district of Kamurocho, but doesn't have direct ties to the...
News Another New Track and Song Revealed for Team Sonic Racing
Frozen Junkyard
By the time Team Sonic Racing makes it out on 21st May, we're all going to be experts on the game's soundtrack. SEGA has slowly been releasing new music from the upcoming co-op kart racer for a while now, and the latest is for a new track called Frozen Junkyard. "In the new track, 'Frozen Junkyard', Sonic and friends will race...
News Team Sonic Racing's Soundtrack Highlighted Once Again in New Video from SEGA
Sonic heroes
SEGA has been putting the spotlight on the music in Team Sonic Racing for a good while now. Every now and again, the publisher shares a new song from the upcoming kart racer, and while the tunes are decent enough, we hope we get to see more of the game itself soon. Not today, though -- the latest video on the game once again focuses on...
News Dr Eggman, Metal Sonic, and Zavok Form Team Eggman in Team Sonic Racing
Evil Knievel
SEGA has just revealed another trio of characters for its upcoming co-op kart racer, Team Sonic Racing. As you can see, Team Eggman features three of the hedgehog's adversaries -- Zavok (a villain from Sonic Lost World almost no one will recognise), Metal Sonic, and of course, Dr Eggman himself. As with the rest of the roster, each...
News Another Music Track from Team Sonic Racing Appears Online
Ocean View
Continuing its trend of releasing new music every few weeks, SEGA has shared yet another song from the delayed Team Sonic Racing. Called Ocean View, this track is a remix of a song originally found in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed named Sonic - You Can Do Anything. It's typically high energy stuff for a Sonic title. The...
News Sonic Mania's Animated Shorts Continue with Special Festive Episode
Gotta go feast
The animated intro for Sonic Mania was such a hit with fans that a batch of short cartoons was released, collectively known as Sonic Mania Adventures. The fifth episode seemingly concluded the spin-off story, but it turns out SEGA had one more chapter up its sleeve. Embedded above, the sixth episode has a decidedly Christmassy theme...
News SEGA Reminds Everyone Team Sonic Racing Is Coming with New Music Track
Sand Road
Team Sonic Racing exists, and it really is coming -- just not for another five months, that's all. After a hefty delay to May 2019, it feels like a lifetime until we get to sample Sonic's latest kart racer outing, and to help bridge the gap, SEGA has released another song from the game. This one draws inspiration from Sand Hill in Sonic...
News Yakuza Studio's Judge Eyes Renamed Judgment
The jury reaches a verdict in Summer 2019
Yakuza Studio’s upcoming Kamurocho-set crime drama Judge Eyes – now officially named Judgment in the West – will release Summer 2019 on the PlayStation 4. But there’s more: the title will feature English voice acting. Greg Chun will play protagonist Issei Hoshino, and it’s unclear at the time of...
News SEGA Teasing Yakuza Related Announcement at Kinda Funny Games Showcase
Nani?
Just a couple of days after The Game Awards 2018 comes Greg Miller's Kinda Funny Games Showcase, an event that'll apparently play host to nearly 50 titles. While the event is likely to be a platform primarily for smaller developers and less well-known games, it seems there could also be some more substantial announcements, if the below...
News SEGA Shares Team Sonic Racing Music to Enjoy While You Wait for May 2019 Release
Market Street gets a remix
Team Sonic Racing may have been delayed all the way to 21st May next year, but that doesn't stop SEGA from sharing some of the game's music. Crush 40 is of course back making tunes for this upcoming Sonic release, but joining the band, at least for this song, is Hyper Potions, a group who did some work for the wonderful...
News Team Sonic Racing Delayed, Going Back to the Pits for Several Months
Stuck in traffic
We weren't exactly enamoured with Team Sonic Racing when we played it at this year's EGX. It lacks the nostalgic sparkle of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed, and its team-based mechanics seem undercooked. It wasn't going to live up to the same standard as its predecessor, in other words. SEGA seems to feel the same way,...
News Yakuza 4's Masayoshi Tanimura Recast for PS4 Re-Release
Head swap
Yakuza 4 will release on the PlayStation 4 from 17th January in Japan, and SEGA’s announced that its recast the role of Masayoshi Tanimura. One of the game’s four primary protagonists, the rookie cop was originally played by Hiroki Narimiya, but he’s since retired from acting after allegations about his personal life. In order to...
News Alien: Isolation Devs Making a New Tactical Shooter
What will it be?
Creative Assembly, the studio behind the highly regarded horror title Alien: Isolation, is recruiting for a new project. It's not entirely clear what exactly the new game will look like, but from the job description, we can glean a couple of details. The listing asks for a programmer to join the team to work on "a brand-new and...
News SEGA Cancelled Full Remakes of the Shenmue Games
Changed its mind
Wow, another wrinkle is added to the Shenmue saga today, as it’s emerged that full remakes of the first two games in the franchise were in production up until the end of last year. Digital Foundry has obtained footage of Shenmue I & II that’s different to the PlayStation 4 re-release we received earlier in the year. The...
News SEGA Wants Simultaneous Worldwide Release Dates for Its Games
About time
Over the last few years Japanese publishers in general have gotten a lot better at localising their games in a more timely manner. It's still far from perfect, with recent titles like Dragon Quest XI coming to mind, but advancements have certainly been made this generation. That said, SEGA seems to know that there's room for further...
News New Judge Eyes Gameplay Sets a Gripping, Gritty Tone for Yakuza Studio's Latest Project
Wrong side of town
Judge Eyes continues to look like a Yakuza spin-off that we just have to get our hands on. During a recent livestream, SEGA showcased another 20 or so minutes of gameplay, this time taken from the title's opening scenario. It does a great job of setting a gritty tone, and as is the case with the Yakuza games, there's some...
Review Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise - Marvellous Manga from the Yakuza Team
Definitely not dead
Fist of the North Star is one of the most popular Japanese manga series in history, starting out all the way back in 1983. TV adaptations, novels, and live-action films capitalised on the original 27 volumes in order to continue and sustain the legacy of legendary martial artist Kenshiro, but when it comes to the latest entry in...
Hands On Team Sonic Racing Takes a Tailspin on PS4
Not-so super, Sonic
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is, for our money, one of the few kart racers that deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as Nintendo’s all-conquering Mario Kart series. The celebration of SEGA’s illustrious legacy not only revelled in ridiculous fan service (Burning Rangers, anyone?) but it also had a sharp...
Review Valkyria Chronicles 4 - The Strategy Sequel We Waited a Decade For
The Art of War
Republished on the 25th September, 2018: We're bringing this review back to coincide with the launch of Valkyria Chronicles 4. The Valkyria Chronicles series is set during a low fantasy re-imagining of World War II, here called the Second Europan War. The topography of the Europan continent is only marginally different to our Europe,...
TGS 2018 Judge Eyes Has an Awesome Opening Movie
As moody as you'd imagine
Judge Eyes is shaping up to be another deliciously dramatic hit from SEGA's Yakuza Studio, and we reckon that the game's opening movie sets the tone rather nicely. Shown off just ahead of Tokyo Game Show 2018, where the title will be playable, it introduces the game's main characters in suitably moody fashion. The...
News Resonance of Fate Remaster Is Real, Launches in October on PS4
It's bullet time
And there it is, confirmation from developer tri-Ace that the rumoured Resonance of Fate remaster is real, and it's coming a lot sooner than many may have anticipated. It's titled Resonance of Fate 4K/HD Edition, and it's the same game that launched on the PlayStation 3 in 2010, except it looks better than ever on PlayStation 4...
News Puyo Puyo eSports Pops Up on PS4 Next Month in Japan
But no Western plans just yet
There’s a new Puyo Puyo game dropping onto the PlayStation 4 in Japan next month, and it’s sponsored by the Japanese eSports Union. Available from 25th October for ¥1,999 (~$17), it’s been designed around growing the puzzling property’s competitive scene – hence the relatively low price point. The title will...
Rumour Gun-Based JRPG Resonance of Fate Is Getting a PS4 Remaster
Bang
Fans of Japanese role-playing games may remember Resonance of Fate, a PlayStation 3 title that had a somewhat unique battle system. It was all about guns and positioning, and from what we can recall, it was in-depth and good fun once you wrapped your head around its intricacies. Anyway, Resonance of Fate could be coming to PlayStation 4 if a...
News Fist of the North Star PS4 Heats Up with Free Kazuma Kiryu Character Skin
Enter the Dragon
The story of Yakuza protagonist Kazuma Kiryu may be over, but that won't stop the Dragon of Dojima from nabbing a cameo appearance in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. Well, kind of. For a limited time (from the 2nd October, when the game launches, to the 15th October), you'll be able to download a Kiryu skin for free. That's...
News Space Channel 5 VR Grooves to PSVR Soon
Left, right, chu, chu, chu
Oooh-la-la, Ulala is finally coming to the PlayStation 4 in Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash. The virtual reality spin-off of SEGA’s classic Dreamcast rhythm action series has been playable in Japanese arcades for a little while, but will now strut its stuff to PlayStation VR. There’s no date just yet,...
News Judge Eyes Gameplay Shows That It's Basically a Yakuza Spin-Off
Kamurocho calling
Judge Eyes is the new game from SEGA's Yakuza Studio. It was announced earlier today at Sony's PlayStation LineUp Tour event, and the initial trailer had us wondering how it was going to play. As it turns out, it looks like Judge Eyes is basically a Yakuza title. Basically. It's set in Kamurocho (of course it is), and...
News Yakuza Studio's New Game Judge Eyes Detects a PS4 Western Release in 2019
Demo available in Japan
Perhaps one of the biggest announcements during Sony's PlayStation LineUp Tour event, the head of Yakuza Studio, Toshihiro Nagoshi, revealed a brand new title. It's called Judge Eyes (or Project Judge), and sees you playing as a detective solving mysteries. It appears to be based on the same engine as Yakuza 6, as it bears a...
News Fist of the North Star PS4 Demo Is Out Now in the West
Crack your knuckles
Hop on over to the PlayStation Store in Europe and you should find a playable demo for Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. It's 8.7GB in size, and based on what we've heard, it's a reasonably lengthy look at the upcoming action title. At the time of writing, the demo isn't available in North America just yet, but it...
News Yakuza Studio to Announce New IP at Tokyo Game Show Next Month
That's rad
The team behind the Yakuza series is certainly keeping itself busy these days, with what seems like an endless stream of releases in the franchise, as well as the upcoming Western launch of Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. It seems it won't be taking a break anytime soon, however, as its latest game is to be announced next month...
News Yakuza Survey Hints at Feudal Japan Spin-Offs Potentially Coming West
Yes please
As if there weren't enough samurai-based games heading our way, SEGA is potentially thinking about giving us a couple more. Invested Yakuza fans may already know of Yakuza: Ishin! and Yakuza: Kenzan!, two spin-off titles that are basically your usual Yakuza games, only they're set in feudal Japan. The former launched on...
