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Friday28th Feb 2025
News Japan Sales Charts: A PS5 Game Finally Rules the Roost as Like a Dragon Plunders
A pirate's life
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii has shot straight to the top of the latest Japanese sales charts, having launched on the 21st February. As you may have noticed, we don't write about the charts too often these days — and that's primarily because there's hardly ever anything going on that's relevant to PlayStation. It's nice...
Thursday13th Feb 2025
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii PS5 Demo Available Now
PS4 misses out on the demo
Announced overnight during the State of Play livestream, SEGA has released a new PS5 demo for Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii on the PS Store. You'll be able to sample the Goro Majima-focused side game ahead of its release on 21st February 2025, with various sections of the full game available to try. While the game...
Thursday6th Feb 2025
News Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Story Trailer Sets the Scene for Crazy Side Game
Narrated by Samoa Joe
RGG Studio has revealed a new Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii trailer today that's designed to set up the plot of the wild Majima-focused game. AEW wrestler Samoa Joe, who plays pirate king Laymond Law in the game, provides the narration. Check it out above. The PS5, PS4 game takes place after the events of Infinite...
Friday31st Jan 2025
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Has Its Own Shanty Anthem
Yo ho, we are the Goro Pirates
Is any RGG game genuinely complete without a big melodramatic musical number? We don't think so, and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii looks set to be full of pirate earworms. Case in point, the official anthem of the Goro Pirates has been revealed, with the stirring shanty getting its own music video. Goro's big...
Wednesday29th Jan 2025
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Embarks in Adventure Overview Trailer
Pirate pun
Setting sail on 21st February on PS5 and PS4, the absurd Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is certainly looking pretty ship-shape. In an expansive overview trailer, we glimpse the island adventures that await long-time antagonist Goro Majima as he seemingly disassociates from reality entirely. This strange odyssey will have Goro...
Friday24th Jan 2025
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Goes Full Black Flag with Insane Naval Combat Gameplay
It's all cannon
We already knew that naval combat is going to be a big part of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, but this new gameplay trailer do a fantastic job of selling the Mad Dog's high seas shenanigans. For those out of the loop, the latest Like a Dragon game stars an amnesiac Majima, who somehow ends up captaining a proper pirate...
Thursday16th Jan 2025
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Unloads PS5, PS4 Combat Overview Trailer
Shiver our timbers
Looking increasingly ship-shape, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii arrives next month on PS5 and PS4 worldwide on 21st February. SEGA has offloaded a solid gameplay overview trailer (using an impressive number of pirate puns) to hold you over in the meantime, highlighting Majima's suitably savage combat options. The Mad Dog...
Friday10th Jan 2025
News Nautical Yakuza Goes Viral As Fans Fall in Love with New Piratical Like a Dragon on PS5, PS4
Ship shape
Could a gag game end up out-pirating the real pirate games? That’s the question Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii fans are pondering. SEGA hosted a short livestream to reveal new details about the forthcoming nautical escapade earlier this week, and some of its naval combat footage has gone viral. Many have pointed out how it...
Thursday9th Jan 2025
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Won't Lock New Game+ Behind Paid DLC
Unlike Infinite Wealth
Some welcome news has arrived from the latest Like a Dragon Direct broadcast: upcoming action adventure Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii won't be placing its New Game+ mode behind a paywall. If you're not sure why that's a big deal, it's because Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, which launched last year, sold New Game+ as...
Tuesday7th Jan 2025
News Like a Dragon Direct Announced, with Way More Info on PS5, PS4's Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Set sail
SEGA and RGG Studio have announced that they'll be hosting a new Like a Dragon Direct this week, on the 9th January, at 5pm GMT / 6pm CET / 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern. The broadcast will provide more information on Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, which is still set to launch on the 21st February. Forgive us for pointing this out...
Tuesday31st Dec 2024
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Just Keeps on Getting Bigger
"The volume increased by itself"
We've been noting with increasing alarm the leviathan developer RGG Studios appears to have on its hands with the upcoming Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, out 21st February on PS5. In October, the developer suggested that the game would be quite a bit longer than the recent Kiryu spinoff, The Man Who Erased...
Friday20th Dec 2024
News Even in a Wacky Nautical Spin-Off, Yakuza Just Feels Wrong in English
Japanese only
Nah, we just can’t do it. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii may be a wacky nautical spin on the long-running series, but it still just doesn’t sound right in English. To be fair to SEGA, it’s assembled one helluva cast here. Matt Mercer, best known for voicing Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil and Jotaro Kujo in JoJo’s...
Thursday12th Dec 2024
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Has a Smorgasbord of Silly Side Activities
There's no limits to what a pirate gets up to
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii does appear to be diving off at the deep end tonally – or should that be diving off the wooden plank? Nevertheless, it’s the side-content that tends to take the SEGA series in a particularly silly direction, and the latest entry will be no different. In...
Friday15th Nov 2024
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii on PS5, PS4 Looks Mad, Dog
Sea it to believe it
SEGA’s really gone off the deep end with Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. A new info dump and a couple of short gameplay clips reveal what we mean, as they introduce Assassin’s Creed-esque naval battles and protagonist Majima’s new mythical sea creature special moves. As was the case in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The...
Wednesday23rd Oct 2024
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Significantly Longer Than Kiryu's Recent Spin-Off
Majima's big adventure
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will plunder PS5 and PS5 ports from 21st February, starring the undeniably charismatic antagonist Goro Majima this time around. It will also be quite a bit longer than the Kiryu-centric Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, as much as one-and-a-half times the length. That's...
Friday18th Oct 2024
No beating around the bush
SEGA’s not really being secretive about the reason behind its Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii release date change. In a video message, anchored by director Masayoshi Yokoyama, he admitted that the new 21st February launch will allow you to “play the game that comes after it with peace of mind”. That game is...
Thursday17th Oct 2024
Tharrr she blows
Zany spin-off Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii has caught a strong headwind – and will release one week earlier on PS5 and PS4. Originally planned for 28th February, SEGA must have heard word of sea shanties involving the release date of Monster Hunter Wilds, and has decided to move forward to 21st February instead. This...
Friday20th Sep 2024
Starring the Mad Dog himself
The next game in the Like a Dragon / Yakuza series has been officially announced, and you might want to sit down before hearing what it's all about. It's called Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (we're already off to a good start), and it stars the legendary Majima Goro as a solo protagonist. Majima's in a bit of a...
