Yakuza, known in Japan as Ryū ga Gotoku and also known as Like a Dragon in recent series entries to align with its Japanese name, is a video game franchise created, owned and published by Sega. It incorporates elements of the action-adventure, beat 'em up, and role-playing genres.
Toshihiro Nagoshi, who initially conceived the series
A Yakuza 3 Event Mode minor character's face being modeled in 3D through Softimage XSI 6.5. During this scan, the actor wore a swim cap to substitute for his character's police peaked cap.
Promotion at TGS 2010
Sega Corporation is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its international branches, Sega of America and Sega Europe, are headquartered in Irvine, California, and London. Its division for the development of arcade games and home video games, Sega Games, has existed in its current state since 2020; from 2015 to that point, the two had made up separate entities known as Sega Games and Sega Interactive Co., Ltd. Sega is a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings. From 1983 until 2001, Sega also developed video game consoles.
Sega's headquarters in Shinagawa, Tokyo
The Diamond 3 Star was a coin-operated slot machine produced by Sega in the 1950s.
Sega's first video game console, the SG-1000
The Master System, released in North America in 1986 and Europe in 1987