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The North American box art for Yakuza 3 is pretty f’ugly. While the cover has no bearing on the content inside, the first fan makeover has been released and posted on angry-gamers.com.

Special thanks to Deekman from the SEGA forums for crafting this up in Photoshop – you sir – are a gentleman and a scholar.

The box used for the remake was the bilingual Canadian edition with French included.

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AVP is doing very well in the UK and has found its audience in Europe. The title has remained at the top of the charts overseas hovering in the top 5. The title has moved 100, 000 units since launch just on the Xbox 360.

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It is no secret that Japan likes the Yakuza franchise and the reviewers at Famitsu have given Yakuza 4 a solid score. Yakuza 4 launches in Japan on March 18, 2010.

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RubyEclipse has posted a pretty thoughtful blog post over at the SEGA Blogs about the fan support, the mistakes made over the edits, and the positive reviews garnered for the title thus far.

“If there’s one thing about Yakuza that these last few months have taught people,” I thought as I sat at lunch on Monday, “It’s that the fans are a force to take seriously…usually.” Fans can be the biggest allies and proponents of games that may not be the huge, multi-million sellers like (insert generic FPS here), or (insert additional generic FPS here). They can create amazing successes for games that were never expected to have them – looking at you, Valkyria Chronicles – and they can just as easily do the opposite, in some cases.”

Check out SEGA’s post and the scores over here. Yes, Ruby I was looking for a post yesterday when I picked up the title.

I understand the fan rage about the cuts but more importantly fans got the game translated – and the main reason to play the title is still present and very much intact. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not a screen shot of Sonic 4.

The intrepid gamers at NEOGAF have unearthed more potential information and/or gossip on the upcoming Sonic title.

First of all Jun Sunoue rumored to be working on the title as sound director and composer. If the meager screenshots were not evidence of this already, the level design is apparently inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which is a great place to start. Read the rest of this entry »