Did you ever think this day would come? There now exists a Shenmue 3, thanks to Yu Suzuki and Sega, but really thanks to all of us. The original game made waves in the fall of 1999 for being one of the first shining examples of the brand-new 3D sandbox…
Ys Net, developers of the upcoming, long-awaited and fan-financed Shenmue 3, announced today in a new Kickstarter post that another director who worked on the original Shenmue has joined their team. Keiji Okayasu was program director on the first game and served through 70% of the second. He’s now president…
Shenmue series creator Yu Suzuki is currently hard at work on creating Shenmue 3. It’ll have an instant audience of fans from the originals, but what about people who have never played either game and want to catch up? Right now, the only option is finding a used Dreamcast and…
Three new screenshots from the dream sequel Shenmue 3 have appeared at MAGIC Expo in Monaco. As you can see, the environments crafted so far are pretty darn beautiful. Protagonists Ryo and Shenhua, however, are still a work in progress. They’ve been stuck into these environments as static figures, if…
Last evening Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki sent a new update to backers of the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter on the progress of the game. Within the new release was an abridged transcript of a lecture Suzuki gave at CHUAPPX Expo, where he showed off a couple new test photos. Without further…
The website DualShockers published an interview with Yu Suzuki today. In it Suzuki revealed some new information regarding the development of the long-demanded sequel, Shenmue 3. Yu said the game will feature four main bosses, and that one of them would be Lan Di, who previously appeared in the other…
Eurogamer just published a fairly large interview with Yu Suzuki, creator of Shenmue (and currently creating Shenmue 3 thanks to the donations of fans). There haven’t been that many updates since the Kickstarter closed, except for the “Slacker Backer” campaign that was announced. It’s true that the Kickstarter that launched…
The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter, which launched during E3 and lasted about three months, earned Yu Suzuki and his development team about half their stretch goals, which will allow them to expand certain areas of the game — but not all of them. Suzuki was hoping for ten million, and he…
One month ago, Yu Suzuki took to the Sony stage during E3 and announced that he was launching a Kickstarter, effective immediately, to fund Shenmue 3. Sega gave him permission, Sony agreed to help with promotion and funding (in exchange for some exclusivity), but it would be the fans that…
With just a little over two days to go for the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter, it doesn’t look like like Yu Suzuki is going to get his ten million dollars. He is guaranteed to get at least five million, though, and for any Kickstarter, that’s very impressive. To stoke up the…