Promise Mascot Agency’s Best Asset Is Its Female Cast By Hiero de Lima • June 4th, 2025 Bottom line: Promise Mascot Agency is a game about freaks, by freaks, for freaks.
I Used to Love Yakuza’s Shun Akiyama, Until I Realized How Much He Hates Women By Hiero de Lima • April 16th, 2025 One of the Yakuza’s most adored protagonists is also a constant mouthpiece for its most naked misogyny.
The Place That Is Nowhere: Abashiri Prison 1-3 from Eureka By Orrin Grey • May 31st, 2024 The star of the show becomes Abashiri itself, and the frozen landscape that surrounds it, which makes escape seem impossible, even long after the inmates are outside the prison walls.
Exploits Feature The Batman Problem By Jeremy Greco • August 1st, 2023 In a game set in Gotham City, why would a player ever want to be anyone other than Batman?
Forms in Light Glitz and Glamor By Justin Reeve • August 13th, 2021 What lurks below the surface of Yakuza 6’s dual settings?
Feature Excerpt Oishi: The Yakuza and the Koan By George Umbarger • November 24th, 2020 What’s the Yakuza series have to do with Zen Buddhism? More than you think!
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2020 By Stu Horvath • November 19th, 2020 Find out what’s behind the demon skull!
Musings From Kamurocho, With Love By Blake Hester • December 13th, 2019 Halfway around the world, in a city he’s never been to before, Blake finds a place he knows as well as his home.
Episode 11 – Stranger Things By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 18th, 2019 Stranger Things are afoot as Sara and David talk about the third season of Netflix’s popular 80s pastiche
[Yells in Foreign Language] By David Shimomura • October 10th, 2018 The Yakuza series doesn’t offer an English dub for its dialogue. That’s a good thing.
