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Historical Yakuza spin-off Like A Dragon: Ishin! is being remade, coming to PC next yearReleasing in the west for the first time

Releasing in the west for the first time

Like A Dragon: Ishin!’s protagonist, a real historical samurai, who will no doubt do ridiculous things in this game.

Holy heck. During tonight’s Sony State Of Play livestream, it was announced that Like A Dragon: Ishin! was heading to the west for the first time - and heading to PC at the same time. TheYakuzaspin-off set in 1860s Japan was first released in 2014, and the remake is described as having been “rebuilt from the ground up”. Watch the trailer below.

Like a Dragon: Ishin! | Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube

Like a Dragon: Ishin! | Announcement Trailer

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With Ishin on the way, and if indications ofan imminent PC announcement for Judgment and Lost Judgmentare true, I think there are only a handful of Yakuza things not on PC. Those include Ishin! predecessor Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! and the much more interesting noncanonical zombie apocalypse spin-off from 2011,Yakuza: Dead Souls.

Developers Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio are doing a livestream on September 14th, called the RGG Summit, where hopefully they’ll confirmJudgmentand show more of Ishin. It’ll be broadcast at 11am BST/12pm CEST/6am EST.

Like A Dragon: Ishin! will launch on PC via Steam in February 2023. It oddlywasn’t the only gameset during the late Edo period to be revealed during tonight’s State Of Play.