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"SEGA hasn't given us much in the way of details for their next PS3 installment of the Yakuza franchise, but they are happy with a simple tease to keep fans of the series on edge; via a new teaser site"
"This week's now shipping will bring a fantasy game like no other that finally see's its debut in North America and Europe, the chinese mafia and a good amount of downloads to keep you busy for awhile."
Not only is Yakuza 3 being released in America at an unfortunate time, but it looks like some content has been cut for its Western release, including the infamous hostess bar sequences. Kotaku believes this is a giant mistake...
"The English demo for Yakuza 3 was released this past Thursday on the U.S. Playstation Store for the Playstation 3. It was identical to the Japanese version released last year with the one big exception: the removal of the Ageha Club (and, to a lesser extent, the Answer x Answer quiz mini-game)."
Yakuza 3 dlc information has been released. It contains a survival mode, two different tournaments (single and tag team), and a series of missions called Haruka's Request
Also to note that GameStop pre-orders of the NA version get exclusive in-game costumes and two player mini-games including Pool, Bowling, Darts and Golf, while these come standard with EU's collector's edition.
This is a nice little promotion for a game that was previously unsure of an international release.
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"SEGA Europe has confirmed an official release date for the highly anticipated third instalment in the widely respected Yakuza series. Set to debut this March exclusively on PlayStation 3, Yakuza 3 casts the player as Kiryu Kazuma on a quest to seek a new life in Okinawa."
"Following the announcement of a North American release yesterday, Sega Europe has confirmed the latest instalment in the critically acclaimed Yakuza series, Yakuza 3, will debut in Europe in March 2010. Exclusive to the PlayStation 3 system, Yakuza 3 offers players the chance to become once again Kiryu Kazuma."
"About a month ago news broke that Yakuza 3 (also known as Ryu ga Gotoku in Japan) would finally be making its way to North America. Despite the previous Yakuza games performing poorly in North America fans would have the chance to continue the adventure of running about Tokyo and getting into brawls when they're not eating noodles or singing karaoke at a hostess bar.
The one question that remained though was who was going to publish Yakuza 3 and if the game would retain the original Japan..."
"Wow, that looks awesome. The bundle pack isn’t a bad deal either, providing you were going to buy Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 and an 80GB PlayStation 3 on the same day. You save nearly 2,000 yen ($21.50) with the Ryu Ga Gotoku 3: Rising Dragon pack, which retails for 45,980 yen ($495). In the future the price of the Rising Dragon PS3 should rise too since Sega is only making 10,000 of these available."
Today at the Tokyo Game Show it was revealed that popular fashion model and transsexual Ayana Tsubaki will make an appearance in the upcoming title Yakuza 3 as an oil massage therapist. She will offer the player massages to revive them and replenish their health. Now that's an interesting way of regaining your health in a game.
[Discuss in the Yakuza 3 forum]
"Details announced in the latest issue of Famitsu say the adventure game will take place in 1605 Japan -- the Edo period -- and players will lead the charge as Japan's most famous swordsman and the author of the Book of Five Rings Musashi Miyamoto. Bringing down the bad guys will mean implementing four fighting styles -- weaponless, one sword, two sword, and broadsword -- and a number of special moves."
![Box shot of Yakuza 3 [Japan]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvUGxheXN0YXRpb25fMy9BY3Rpb24vQWR2ZW50dXJl/ryu_ga_gotoku_3_import_frontcover_small_XdZhUEQegyumZZR.jpg)