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Yakuza creator’s new game looks an awful lot like Yakuza

Grant St. Clair
Dec 15, 2025
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Is it still plagiarism if you’re plagiarizing yourself? Original Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi (who also created Super Monkey Ball; talk about range) hasn’t been at Sega for a while now. Not that you’d know it from the series’ ever-intensifying sequels.

Over the past few years, Nagoshi has been cooking something at NetEase, the Chinese publisher perha…

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