Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) isn't kicking in Japanese PS3s yet. Still a week to go before it comes out and Sega is already teasing the future.
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The game hasn't released in the United States, yet, but it seems that SEGA has the downloadable content all figured out. When speaking on DLC, SEGA confirmed it's plan for releasing the future downloadable content for Yakuza 3 in a very elaborate manner.
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VG247: Sega's posted the Yakuza 3 demo on the Japanese PSN. It'll cost you 1,256Mb of hard drive space.
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Yakuza 3 was recently reviewed by the popular Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu and it scored a 38/40. Though the magazine has come under fire as of late for some of it's more eyebrow raising reviews, a 38 is still a very good score.

Famitsu's review also revealed that the title is roughly 30 hours long. That's just for the main storyline as well, so all the karaoke singing, womanizing, golfing, tanning, and whatever other dilly dallying you have Kazuma Kiryu up to is all just bonus time tacked on to that.
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Sega will release a demo on the Japanese PSN tomorrow, which will weigh in at 1.22Gb.
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First impressions of Sega's open world mobster title, Yakuza 3, are in. The title has scored 10, 10, 9 and 9 from Famitsu's panel of critics, for a combined score of 38/40. This is along the lines of how the previous titles have done. Yakuza 2 got a 38/40 as well, and last year's Yakuza Kenzan! scored a 37/40.
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Dofuss says: "Famitsu recently ran an article about a recent Sega event for the release of Yakuza 3. For those who don't know about the series it's basically a gang land fighter, set in Japan, with RPG elements. In the West it received limited commercial success, but critics enjoyed them and their faithful reconstructions of the Tokyo environments.

While the first Western release enjoyed a loving vocal translation, due to its poor reception meant the sequel 'only' received subtitles. This was no bad thing as Sega pulled out all the stops in their recruiting of top tier Japanese vocal talent.

Yakuza 3 is no exception. Though my knowledge of their names is limited all but three of the twelve cast members at the Sega event were immediately familiar. Disturbingly the three unfamiliar member of the cast were the hostess's voices who even in the article were described merely as 'talent' (at least in the sections of the article I was able to read)."
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The Yakuza 3 promotions keep on coming. Sega shared details today on a new collaboration that will pair the game up with a suntan salon.
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Kazuma Kiryu returns to clean out Japan's criminal underground in Yakuza 3, but not before a lengthy 5GB install.
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Sega of Japan has just announced a massive marketing campaign to promote it's upcoming title, Yakuza 3.

This will include a tie up with Japanese fasihon magazine Koakuma Ageha to produce a limited print of Yakuza T-Shirts. Matsuya ( a restaurant) will be holding a drawing to give away Yakuza-printed dinner bowls. Karaoke-Kan will be selling Yakuza-themed food and drinks, and will also be airing a special Yakuza 3 commercial. Okinawa Health Food Develop Cooperative will also be offering Yakuza-style health drinks.
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After the break you can see two new excellent new Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) trailers and a handful of high res images from Sega Japan.

One movie features beautifully rendered cutscenes interspersed with some great looking gameplay whilst the other shows you kicking people's heads in.

The images show some more karaoke fun and some golf.

Sega told videogaming247 last week that there are there are no plans for a Western release.

Gutted.
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Sega has been slowly sharing details on its collaborative plans for Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (the third installment in the series that's known as Yakuza in the west), starting with a tie-up with fashion magazine Koakuma Ageha and continuing recently through tie-ups with discount retailer Don Quijote and food maker Ace Cook. Today, the company opened the flood gates, unveiling a number of additional tie-ups.
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Sega has told videogaming247 that there are still no plans to bring Japanese open-worlder, Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) to the West.
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VG247: Sega has released yet more Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) screenshots revealing what appears to be a Karaoke mini-game.

There's a girl standing up singing, some text on the screen and some icon prompts below it.

If that doesn't get you excited, maybe if we tell you you see our white-suited friend standing in a restaurant doing nothing, that'll get your juices flowing.

Maybe one day we'll be able to write that Yakuza will be due out sometime in the West. Today however, is not that day.
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Sega and AceCook are teaming up once again for a real life food product based off Ryu ga Gotoku 3. AceCook will release a Ryu ga Gotoku 3 instant ramen pack on March 2 as a promotion for the PS3 adventure title. The product will also be featured as part of an in-game sub story.
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SEGA has announced that Eikichi Yazawa will perform the main theme of Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3).The "Loser" single will be released on February 25 priced at 800 yen.
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Sega is teaming up with discount retailer Don Quijote to promote the Japanese release of Yakuza 3. The retailer, which appears in the game in digital form, will put up posters and distribute special Yakuza 3 plastic bags at its real outlets throughout Japan.
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With Yakuza Kenzan! being out in Japan for almost a year and Yakuza 3 right around the bend, neither with an announced American release date, we got in touch with Sega about the future of the franchise abroad. The answer Sega gave us does not bode well, saying "We currently don't know what the future of the Yakuza franchise is for North America". The rep we talked to did say, optimistically, that he hoped the games would continue to be released in the US.
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Ripten: "I have never played any of the Yakuza series, but from what I gather they sound a lot like the GTA games, which makes sense. They both deal with mobs, violence, and sex. New screens and info about Yakuza 3 let us move into the somewhat seedy and dangerous world of the hostess bar."
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Sega reveals the boxart of the third iteration to the popular Yakuza franchise exclusively on PlayStation 3.
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