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Save $900 Off the Lenovo Legion 7 Intel Core i9 RTX 4080 Super Gaming PC

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

Lenovo has dropped the price of its powerful Lenovo Legion Tower 7i Gen 8 RTX 4080 Super gaming PC to only $2,260.99 after coupon code: “EXTRAFIVE” . In our recent Legion Tower 7 review (the sample we received wasn’t as powerful as this one), Jacqueline Thomas wrote that “The Legion Tower 7i is an incredibly powerful gaming PC, especially for the money you’re likely going to be paying for it. If all you want is a powerful, upgradeable machine without having to go through the trouble of building it yourself, it’s hard to find many gaming PCs better than this one.”

Lenovo Legion Tower 7i Gen 8 RTX 4080 Super Gaming PC

The Lenovo Legion Tower 7i Gen 8 is equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU, GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU, 32GB of DDR5-4000MHz RAM, and a 2TB PCIe NVMe SSD. The unlocked 14th gen Intel Core i9-14900KF Raptor Lake “Refresh” CPU boasts a max Turbo clock of 6GHz with 24 cores, 32 threads, and a 36MB cache. It’s still one of the most powerful Intel CPUs available (in many cases it even beats out the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K). It’s cooled by a robust 360mm all-in-one liquid cooling system that rivals many enthusiast setups.

The RTX 4080 Super is Nvidia’s second most powerful RTX 40 series card. You’ll be able to handle any game in 4K at high frame rates, even with ray tracing enabled. It’s 5-10% faster in performance than the RTX 4080 thanks to its higher base clock speed, higher CUDA core count, and higher memory bandwidth. It trades blows with AMD’s most powerful GPU, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, but the RTX 4080 Super pulls ahead in ray tracing performance and where DLSS 3.0 is supported. It’s nearly identical in performance to the new RTX 5080 GPU and also has the same amount of VRAM.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super Review by Jacqueline Thomas

“The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super, just like the original RTX 4080, is a 4K graphics card through and through. In every test, this GPU excels at that high resolution with plenty of room to spare, especially if you utilize Nvidia’s DLSS. Even in games without DLSS or ray tracing, like Total War: Warhammer 3, the RTX 4080 Super is a monster at 4K, scoring 79fps, compared to 76 from the RTX 4080 and 86 from the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX.”

Why Choose Lenovo?

Lenovo Legion gaming PCs and laptops generally feature better and more rugged build quality than what you’d find from most other prebuilt PCs. For desktop PCs in particular, people like the fact that Lenovo does not use many proprietary components in their rigs, so the PCs are much easier to upgrade with easiy obtainable, off-the-shelf parts. For laptops, Lenovo generally does not throttle the GPU on most of their Legion laptops, so you should expect maximum performance from a given GPU. Lenovo generally includes a solid 1 year warranty with the option to extend.

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What Should James Gunn’s Second DCU Movie Be? We Have Ideas

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

James Gunn recently gave a group of reporters a status update on the DCU at a DC Studios presentation. Among many other tidbits revealed, we learned that Gunn is already hard at work scripting the next DCU movie he’ll direct after Superman. He’s certainly keeping very busy these days.

Gunn didn’t reveal what film he’s currently developing, and it’s probably safe to assume he won’t be announcing anything until well after Superman hits theaters in July. Still, we have some ideas for what his next DCU project should be. What franchises and characters best fit his unique voice? What movies need to be prioritized as Gunn and his DC Studios partner Peter Safran build out this new shared universe? Here are our picks for the DC movies Gunn might focus on next.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Despite the fact that the Dark Knight is hardly a stranger to the big screen, there’s been a lot of interest surrounding Batman: The Brave and the Bold. This film is set to reboot Batman yet again, this time introducing the DCU’s version of the Caped Crusader. But unlike many recent incarnations of the franchise, it’s set to focus on the wider Bat-family, including introducing Bruce Wayne’s eccentric son Damian.

Despite Batman being a proven commodity in Hollywood, there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding The Brave and the Bold. Progress on the film has seemingly been slow, and even after the presentation, it’s an open question as to whether The Flash’s Andy Muschietti will still direct it. That’s to say nothing of the challenge of introducing a second cinematic Batman meant to coexist alongside Robert Pattinson’s version of the character.

The DCU needs a Batman, to be sure. He’s one of the most pivotal characters in any version of the DC Universe, and it’s important that they get this one right. If Muschietti winds up dropping out of The Brave and the Bold, perhaps it’s best for Gunn himself to step in to make sure DC gets this project right (a process that already seems to be taking place). Plus, we’ve seen from the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy how great Gunn is at using superhero movies to tell emotional father/son stories. Just think what he could accomplish with Bruce and Damian.

The Flash

The Flash is another key component of any shared DC Universe. He’s a core pillar of the Justice League, and he’s usually at the center of stories involving the multiverse. The problem is that Flash has had a very rocky history in live-action over the past decade. On one hand, The CW series serves as a strong example of how to handle an ensemble-based Team Flash story (even if the show lost steam over time). On the other hand, Ezra Miller’s DCEU Flash didn’t go over nearly as well, culminating in a Flash movie that crashed and burned at the box office.

The Flash is basically damaged goods in the wake of that movie. Even so, he’s a character we’d hope to see sooner rather than later in the DCU. The Flash simply needs a fresh take that veers away from well-trodden territory like Flashpoint. We need a film that keeps Barry Allen (and/or Wally West) in the spotlight rather than letting Batman steal the show.

Again, looking at the Guardians movies, Gunn has a real eye for dynamic action that could pay off handsomely in a Flash movie. And it’s clear he’d have no trouble helping audiences connect with the man beneath the red suit.

The Authority

Gunn was pretty frank at the presentation when giving an update on The Authority. He noted that it’s been hard to find the right angle on the movie that doesn’t cover the same ground as Prime Video’s The Boys and other Authority-inspired superhero projects.

“Honestly, Authority’s been the one that’s been the hardest, both because of the shifting overall story and because of getting it right in a world with The Boys and a world with all the things that The Authority influenced that came out after it,” Gunn said. “And also having a lot of characters that we’ve fallen in love with that we’ve already filmed and have that we want to continue their stories and see them meet each other. So I will admittedly say it’s a little bit more on the back burner right now.”

We assume The Authority is going to be key to the growing scope of the DCU. It was among the original batch of DCU movies and shows announced, and María Gabriela de Faría’s Engineer is appearing in Superman. We can only assume the DCU will continue to explore the clash between the hope and optimism of heroes like Superman with the brand of post-modern cynicism embodied by The Authority. That makes this film an important one to get right.

Luckily, The Authority is also a great fit for Gunn’s filmmaking sensibilities. He’s great at working with misfit heroes and crafting engaging team banter. The Authority may be a tough nut to crack, but we have faith Gunn could do it.

Amanda Waller/ARGUS Movie

The planned Waller series is another project Gunn admitted has stalled as the DCU gets off the ground, telling reporters the series “has had a couple of setbacks, frankly.” That’s not terribly surprising considering that Gunn must be stretched pretty thin, between his commitments to Superman, Peacemaker: Season 2 and Creature Commandos. But as those commitments ease up and Gunn is better able to focus on what comes next, it may make sense to make Waller his next big priority, even if that means transforming the series into a feature film.

As it stands, Waller and her organization ARGUS are the glue holding the fledgling DCU together. This new universe started out by focusing on the Creature Commandos, a team spearheaded by Waller. ARGUS will appear in Superman. Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag, Sr. will also appear in Superman, as well as serving as the main antagonist in Peacemaker: Season 2. It only makes sense to continue focusing on this corner of the DC Universe and the puppet master pulling everyone’s strings. And if Waller isn’t working out as a series, maybe the best solution is to try it as a movie instead.

Batman & Superman: World’s Finest

By all rights, 2016’s Batman v Superman should have been one of the biggest box office hits of all time. It marked the first time the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel joined forces on the big screen. But while the film did manage a respectable haul, it fell short of those lofty expectations. Even at that early stage, it was clear audiences were growing weary of the dark, brooding tone taken by director Zack Snyder.

Batman v Superman wasn’t what many fans wanted out of that particular team-up. Too much fighting, not enough heroics. Batman and Superman deserve a team-up movie that portrays them as friends and allies, working together to combat threats too big for one hero to handle alone. That’s the kind of crossover movie we could easily see Gunn excelling at.

Rather than focus on The Brave and the Bold specifically, perhaps Gunn’s next task should be bringing his Superman and The Brave and the Bold’s Batman together in one movie. The new DCU needs surefire hits to help it grow in the years to come, and there’s probably no more dependable combination than James Gunn writing and directing a Batman/Superman movie.

Titans

There was a time when the Teen Titans franchise was one of the biggest things in comics. Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s New Teen Titans run was one of DC’s best-selling and most critically acclaimed comics in the early ‘80s. The Teen Titans animated series won over a new generation of fans in the 2000s, and the spinoff Teen Titans Go! has outlasted countless other DC shows on the air.

All of this is to say that DC should really be thinking about introducing the Titans to the DCU sooner rather than later. There’s a huge fanbase already in place, and there’s a very rich history of comics from which to draw. And while Max’s Titans series had its flaws, it proved these characters can easily work in live-action.

In many ways, the prospect of a live-action Titans movie is even more appealing than a new Justice League movie. The Titans have a dysfunctional but loving family dynamic that makes them quite unlike the League. And given how well Gunn succeeded in turning the Guardians from a random team of squabbling a-holes into a true family, we’d love to see what he could accomplish with what is undoubtedly one of DC’s greatest super-teams.

Justice League Dark

Between the fact that the first phase of the DCU is dubbed “Gods and Monsters” and that Swamp Thing and Creature Commandos were among the first projects teased, it’s clear this cinematic universe is going to be leaning fairly heavily into the supernatural side of the DC Universe. Perhaps it only makes sense to focus on establishing the supernatural counterpart to the classic Justice League.

Justice League Dark is an opportunity for magical heroes like Zatanna, Etrigan, Deadman, Swamp Thing, and even John Constantine to band together and take on threats too weird for the traditional Justice League to handle. There’s definitely a lot more dysfunction fueling this team, which again, is Gunn’s bread and butter as a superhero storyteller. Throw in a character like Batman or Wonder Woman to lure in casual audiences, and you have an easy gateway for moviegoers to experience the weirder and wackier side of the DCU.

Which DC movie do you want to see Gunn tackle after Superman? Cast your vote in our poll and let us know in the comments below.

For more on the future of all things DC, check out what to expect from DC in 2025 and see every DC movie and series in development.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on BlueSky.

Variety Veteran Steven Gaydos Saluted as a ‘Renaissance Man’ of Movies and Journalism by Filming Italy Los Angeles

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, Variety

Variety veteran Steven Gaydos was hailed as a “Renaissance man” of movies and journalism as he received career achievement honors from the Filming Italy Los Angeles festival, supported by the Italian Cultural Institue arm of Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Gaydos, who is Variety‘s VP and executive editor of features, was feted […]

Roberta Flack’s 10 Greatest Musical Moments

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, Variety

Once you put into perspective that chart-topping pop and R&B vocalist-composer Roberta Flack started her career accompanying opera vocalists on piano at one club, performing quiet jazz and blues at another, and playing the sacred music of the Methodist church at home, a fuller picture of the artist is revealed. Music was a prismatic and […]

The Flagship HP Omen 45L RTX 4080 Gaming PC Drops to $2,199.99 After an $800 Discount

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

HP is offering its biggest and best HP Omen 45L gaming PC equipped with a 14th-gen Intel Core i7-14700K CPU and GeForce RTX 4080 GPU for only $2,199.99 after $700 in instant savings and a $100 off coupon code “SURPRISEPC100“. This is one of the most powerful gaming PCs from HP that is very similar in performance to an equivalent RTX 5080 gaming PC, except that is more readily available and considerably less expensive.

HP Omen 45L RTX 4080 Gaming PC for $2,199.99

The Omen 45L is HP’s flagship gaming PC and, in our opinion, one of the best prebuilt gaming PCs. This is HP’s roomiest chassis with plenty of cooling in the form of four 120mm fans for system airflow and an additional 240mm all-in-one liquid cooling solution for the CPU. This PC is equipped with an 800W 80Plus Gold power supply and current-gen components like an Intel Z790 motherboard, Kingston FURY DDR5 RGB memory modules, and a WD Black M.2 SSD. The chassis itself looks great with its blend of steel and tempered glass and RGB lighting. Although it certainly exudes a very premium feel, it doesn’t scream “gamer” like some other PC cases.

This particular system is equipped with a top-of-the-line CPU and GPU. The Intel Core i7-14700K is a 14th generation unlocked Raptor Lake “Refresh” processor with a max turbo frequency of 5.6GHz with 20 cores, 28 threads, and a 28MB cache. This is still an excellent gaming processor and it’s better than the Ultra 265K in gaming performance.

The RTX 4080 Super is Nvidia’s second most powerful RTX 40 series card. You’ll be able to handle any game in 4K at high frame rates, even with ray tracing enabled. It’s 5-10% faster in performance than the RTX 4080 thanks to its higher base clock speed, higher CUDA core count, and higher memory bandwidth. It trades blows with AMD’s most powerful GPU, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, but the RTX 4080 Super pulls ahead in ray tracing performance and where DLSS 3.0 is supported. It’s nearly identical in performance to the new RTX 5080 GPU and also has the same amount of VRAM.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super Review by Jacqueline Thomas

“The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super, just like the original RTX 4080, is a 4K graphics card through and through. In every test, this GPU excels at that high resolution with plenty of room to spare, especially if you utilize Nvidia’s DLSS. Even in games without DLSS or ray tracing, like Total War: Warhammer 3, the RTX 4080 Super is a monster at 4K, scoring 79fps, compared to 76 from the RTX 4080 and 86 from the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

Preorder the HP Omen 45L RTX 5090 Prebuilt Gaming PC

If you’re looking for something even more powerful, look no further than this configuration. HP just added the option to add the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU as an upgrade to one of its flagship HP Omen 45L prebuilt gaming PCs and, fortunately, it is very reasonably priced – for a prebuilt RTX 5090 desktop relative to what we’ve seen from other brands. Put your order in sooner than later because, unless HP has readily available 5090 GPUs in its inventory (unlikely), these prebuilts will probably have a bit of a lead time before they ship out.

The Nvidia 50-series GPUs were officially announced at CES 2025. The emphasis for this round of cards has been on the new and improved AI features over hardware-based raster performance. DLSS 4 technology supposedly quadruples the number of frames with minimal visual compromise. These new GPUs do offer a modest performance boost, but opinions are mixed regarding their value for PC gamers relative to the previous generation RTX 40-series cards.

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How to Play the Yakuza Games in Chronological Order

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

Originally released as a PlayStation 2 game in 2005, Yakuza (Ryu ga Gotoku in Japan) spawned a lengthy and beloved video game series that follows the many conflicts and schemes of yakuza families in the game’s fictional neighborhood of Kamurocho, Tokyo. (The series was renamed to Like a Dragon, the English translation of Ryu ga Gotoku, in 2022.)

The games are notably action packed, melodramatic, cinematic, and super goofy all at once. (If you skip the side quests, you’re missing out on an key part of the games’ sense of humor.) It took years for the franchise to start receiving the renown it’s finally achieved outside of Japan, and its reputation only grows thanks to a scarily consistent output of localized re-releases, spinoffs, and new games – including the most recent of the bunch, the Majima-led spin-off Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.

Which Yakuza Game Should You Play First?

With such a sprawling saga available to play, where should a curious newcomer jump in? We’d recommend starting chronologically with Yakuza 0 or jumping ahead to the clean slate of a new generation with Yakuza: Like a Dragon.

Yakuza/Like a Dragon Games in Chronological Order:

  • Yakuza 0
  • Yakuza / Yakuza Kiwami
  • Yakuza 2 / Yakuza Kiwami 2
  • Yakuza 3
  • Yakuza 4
  • Yakuza 5
  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Beware: Mild spoilers for the plots, characters, and some major events of each game follow.

1. Yakuza 0 (2014)

The sixth game released is actually the first chronological Yakuza game. In Yakuza 0, we play as a two protagonists during the economic boom in the late 1980s. The first: a young Kazuma Kiryu, member of the Dojima family, who is being framed for a murder that took place at the Empty Lot, an undeveloped piece of land that will be a crucial asset for whoever owns it.

The second is former Shimano family member Goro Majima, who is working in a cabaret as a punishment for being part of an assassination years ago. He’s tasked by his ex-patriarch, Futoshi Shimano, to kill a blind woman named Makoto for unknown reasons. (It’s later revealed that she’s the legitimate owner of the Empty Lot.)

By the end of the game, Kiryu gets back to the Dojima family after defeating all the lieutenants, Majima leaves Makoto to live her life, and the Empty Lot is destroyed; the Millennium Tower, a key location in the series, is built on the land.

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC | IGN’s Yakuza 0 Review

2. Yakuza (2005) / Yakuza Kiwami (2016)

The first Yakuza game stars Kazuma Kiryu after he goes to prison for taking the blame for a murder he didn’t commit in 1995. The victim was Sohei Dojima, Kiryu’s boss, who was murdered by Akira Nishikiyama, Kiryu’s best friend. The reason behind this crime was that Sohei tried to rape Yumi Sawamura, a friend of both Kiryu and Nishikiyama.

When Kiryu is released from jail after a 10-year sentence, he’s expelled from the Tojo Clan, someone has stolen ¥10 billion from the clan’s account, and Yumi is nowhere to be found. In the middle of this, Kiryu meets Haruka, the daughter of a woman named Mizuki. Haruka has a pendant that seems to be a key element related to the lost money. Also, Nishikiyama shoots Kiryu’s former captain and adoptive father, becoming an antagonistic force.

During the climax, Kiryu finds Yumi and the lost money, and fights Nishikiyama. Kiryu is asked to be the Fourth Chairman of the Tojo Clan, which he accepts. Moments later, however, he names Yukio Terada, a former Omi Alliance yakuza, as the new chairman, and he quits the yakuza to raise Haruka as his adopted daughter.

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC (Yakuza Kiwami), PS2 | IGN’s Yakuza Review | Yakuza Kiwami Review

3. Yakuza 2 (2006) / Yakuza Kiwami 2 (2017)

Yakuza 2 starts with Terada, the Fifth Chairman of the Tojo Clan, asking Kiryu to help him prevent a war between his clan and the Omi Alliance, their eternal rivals. After being shot in an ambush, Terada seems to be dead and Kiryu looks for Daigo Dojima, son of Sohei Dojima, to appoint him as the new chairman of the clan.

While helping Daigo, Kiryu meets Ryuji Goda, the son of the Omi chairman, and they become enemies because Ryuji refuses a truce with the Tojo Clan. Another character, detective Kaoru Sayama, comes into play and tries to help Kiryu while learning about her parents, who disappeared when she was young.

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC (Yakuza Kiwami 2), PS3 | IGN’s Yakuza 2 Review | Yakuza Kiwami 2 Review

4. Yakuza 3 (2009)

The first game in the series released on PlayStation 3, Yakuza 3 starts with Kiryu far away from the yakuza lifestyle. Instead, in 2007, he’s taking care of the Morning Glory Orphanage in Okinawa. He’s assisted by Haruka, and he looks after many new kids living there.

Unfortunately, peace doesn’t last for long. Our protagonist has to face multiple troubles with different characters, involving new yakuza families, multiple assassinations, shootings, betrayals, an arms smuggling group, and even the CIA.

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC (The Yakuza Remastered Collection), PS3 | IGN’s Yakuza 3 Review

5. Yakuza 4 (2010)

One year after the events of the previous game, Yakuza 4 raises the stakes in a tale of families, betrayals, and crime from the eyes of four protagonists.

Apart from Kiryu, three other new faces join the streets of Kamurocho. The first one, Shun Akiyama, is a loan shark who runs his own firm, Sky Finance, and finds himself in the middle of a conflict between the Tojo Clan and the Ueno Seiwa Clan. He’s also asked for a ¥100 million loan from a mysterious woman named Lily.

Taiga Saejima, Goro Majima’s blood brother, went to prison after performing a hit against the Ueno Seiwa Clan in 1985. Twenty years later, after successfully escaping, he looks for Majima, who abandoned him when they had to perform the hit.

Detective Masayoshi Tanimura, another new protagonist, is investigating one of the recent murders in the Tojo Clan. While doing so, he meets Lily, who is actually Saejima’s sister, and she’s being attacked by the Shibata family. Tanimura later finds out that the patriarch of that family was related to the hit Saejima participated all those years ago.

Ultimately, Kiryu meets his new partners and finds out what happened to all the characters involved in the ongoing conflicts.

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC (The Yakuza Remastered Collection), PS3 | IGN’s Yakuza 4 Review

6. Yakuza 5 (2012)

If Yakuza 4’s story got complicated with multiple protagonists’ points of view, Yakuza 5 went even further. This time, you play as five protagonists in different scenarios in 2012, making this one of the biggest and most ambitious games in the series.

First you follow Kiryu, who left Kamurocho and moved to Fukuoka without Haruka, leaving his orphanage behind. As usual, he won’t enjoy calm for long before he learns that Daigo is missing, and the peace between the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance is about to break.

Saejima is in prison once again, but he’s looking to escape with his cellmate Shigeki Baba when he hears that Majima is dead. (After they escape, they learn Majima had actually faked his death.) In the meantime, Haruka is already a teenager and she’s following her dream of becoming a J-pop idol. Things get complicated when the president of her talent agency, Mirei Park, is found dead in what seems like a staged suicide. Returning protagonist Akiyama appears to help Haruka learn who was really behind Park’s death.

The last piece of the puzzle is the brand-new character Tatsuo Shinada, a former professional baseball player who was banned after being framed for fixing an important match. A mysterious man, who’s actually Daigo, will meet Shinada and ask him to find out the truth of what happened.

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC (The Yakuza Remastered Collection), PS3 | IGN’s Yakuza 5 Review

7. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (2016)

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is presented as the final beat in Kazuma Kiryu’s spotlight in the Yakuza series. Our protagonist spends three years in prison, but this time it’s for his past crimes he actually did. At the end of the previous game, Haruka revealed in a concert broadcast that Kiryu was her father and that he was an ex-yakuza member.

After getting out of prison in 2016, Kiryu returns to Kamurocho, but only for a little while. He learns that Haruka is in a coma after a car accident, and she has a child named Haruto. Haruka was in Onomichi, Hiroshima for a long time before the accident, so Kiryu goes there to investigate what happened and who Haruto’s father is.

While finding clues, important characters like Daigo, Saejima, and Majima are imprisoned, and rival groups, the Chinese Saio Triad and the Korean Jingweon Mafia, are looking to make their moves in Kamurocho.

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC | IGN’s Yakuza 6: The Song of Life Review

8. Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2020)

A major turning point for the series, Yakuza: Like a Dragon begins the transition away from the Yakuza name. It also introduces a new turn-based combat system and a brand-new main character: Ichiban Kasuga, another Tojo Clan member who, like Kiryu, starts his journey by agreeing to take the hit on a criminal charge for his yakuza family and go to prison for a murder he did not commit. On his release 18 years later, Kasuga quickly learns that major changes have happened while he was away, chiefly that the Omi Alliance defeated the Tojo Clan.

Kasuga goes to confront Masumi Arakawa, his former patriarch and father-like figure who seemingly sold out the Tojo Clan, about what happened and is greeted by his former compatriats with hostility. Arakawa shoots Kasuga and dumps his body near a homeless encampment in Yohokama’s Isezaki Ijincho. (New city unlocked!)

Ichiban wakes up and finds himself in the care of Yu Nanba, a former nurse who treated his gunshot wound. This is the starting point for Kasuga, who will meet multiple new faces for the Yakuza series to round out his fighting party, including members from area criminal groups the Yokohama Liumang, the Geomijul Mafia, and the Seiryu Clan. Together, they dig around Yokohama, Sotenbori in Osaka, and Kamurocho to uncover the bigger picture behind Arakawa’s play.

Available on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series S|X, Xbox One, PC | IGN’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon Review

9. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (2024)

The biggest Like a Dragon game to-date teams up the old and new guard – Kiryu and Kasuga – in a true two-protagonist saga that takes the crew from Japan to Hawaii and back. Jumping ahead to 2024 after the events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon (if you were curious, the pandemic also exists in the Like a Dragon universe), Kasuga and friends are trying to live above-board lives in Ijincho until a popular VTuber posts a viral video that upends their normalcy. Soon after, Kasuga learns that his mother, who he thought was dead, is alive and hops on a plane to Honolulu to find her.

After immediately getting into some trouble after landing (classic), Kasuga runs into Kiryu, who is also in Hawaii to find Kasuga’s mother on behalf of the Daidoji faction that agreed to give him sanctuary and keep him in hiding (play Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name for the full backstory there). Kiryu also reveals that he’s been diagnosed with cancer from exposure to nuclear waste (which is connected to the Big Bad of the game). That’s just the very tip of the setup to the massive story that embarks on new Hawaiian adventures, sentimentally reflects on Kiryu’s past, and builds a dramatic arc that involves multiple international mob groups, a religious cult, live streamers, a national conglomerate, and world governments, just to name a few players in this soap opera.

Available on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series S/X, Xbox One, PC | IGN’s Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Review

How to Play the Yakuza/Like a Dragon Games by Release Date

  • Yakuza (2005) / Yakuza Kiwami (2016)
  • Yakuza 2 (2006) / Yakuza Kiwami 2 (2017)
  • Yakuza 3 (2009)
  • Yakuza 4 (2010)
  • Yakuza 5 (2012)
  • Yakuza 0 (2015)
  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (2016)
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2020)
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (2024)

How Many Yakuza/Like a Dragon Games Are There?

Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku studio have released nine main Yakuza/Like a Dragon games, two remakes – Yakuza Kiwami (2016) and Yakuza Kiwami 2 (2017), with a third promised down the road – and 11 spin-offs since the series’ debut in 2005. They were originally PlayStation exclusives, but later ported to Xbox and PC, with every new game since Yakuza: Like a Dragon releasing simultaneously for every system with the exception of Nintendo Switch. However, as announced in the Nintendo Direct from August 2024, Yakuza Kiwami was the first of the Like a Dragon games to get a Switch port in October 2024.

In addition to the mainline games, Like a Dragon has tons of wildly different spinoffs. Kurohyō: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho (2010) and its sequel Kurohyō 2: Ryu ga Gotoku Ashura Hen (2012) are two games exclusive to the PlayStation Portable featuring Tatsuya Ukyo, a completely new character. Judgment (2018) and Lost Judgment (2021) star another new face, lawyer-turned-detective Takayuki Yagami, who’s investigating strange murders in Kamurocho, and has a peripheral crossover with Kiryu and the others in that he brushes up against Tojo Clan subsidiary families.

Then there’s the zombie-infested spinoff Yakuza: Dead Souls (2011), which features the classic cast of characters in a dystopian setting. Yakuza Online (2018) is a free-to-play TCG available on mobile and PC which soft-launched Ichiban Kasuga, the protagonist of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The popular Japanese series Fist of the North Star received the Yakuza treatment with Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise (2018), which shares Kiryu’s games’ structure and gameplay elements.

Two spinoff games are set in older Japanese eras and feature historic figures as their main protagonists: Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! (2008) and Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! (2014). The latter has been released in the west as Like a Dragon: Ishin! in 2023.

In 2023, RGG released Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name, which takes place at the same time as Yakuza: Like a Dragon and explains what happened to Kiryu following the dramatic ending of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. The most recent spin-off is Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii starring fan-favorite Goro Majima as an amnesiatic protagonist in and around Honolulu six months after the events of Infinite Wealth.

What’s Next for Yakuza/Like a Dragon?

The Like a Dragon story is far from over. Though Infinite Wealth, which quickly became the fastest-selling game in the franchise, closed the loop on its own story, it still ended on what felt like a big cliffhanger that leaves the door wide open for the next installment. Just TBD when that might happen: At the 2024 Game Awards in December, RGG revealed it was reviving Virtua Fighter but dropped nothing about what we can expect from the next Like a Dragon mainline or spin-off game.

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Karla Sofía Gascón to Attend Oscars, Netflix Agrees to Pay Expenses After Tweet Controversy

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, Variety

Karla Sofia Gascon plans to be at the Oscars. Sources confirm that Netflix will pay for the “Emilia Pérez” star to attend the ceremony on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Gascon is nominated for best actress for her work in the Spanish-language musical. Details about her plans are still being finalized, including […]

I Need Aimee Lou Wood’s Leopard-Print Sunglasses in ‘The White Lotus’

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, Variety

Even though I don’t have an “old and grumpy” boyfriend to bank roll my next shopping spree like Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) in “The White Lotus,” I still need to find a way to get my hands on the impressive collection of accessories she’s worn so far while lounging around the titular Thailand resort, starting […]

Save 30% Off the WD Black C50 1TB Xbox Series Expansion Card

February 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

Starting today, Amazon has dropped the price on the officially licensed WD Black C50 1TB Expansion Card for Xbox Series consoles to $109.99 shipped. That’s a 30% price drop from its original $158 list price and the best price we’ve seen for an officially licensed 1TB Xbox expansion card since Black Friday. The C50 is one of the best SSDs for the Xbox, which isn’t surprising since your options are pretty limited.

WD Black C50 1TB Expansion Card for Xbox for $109.99

The WD Black C50 expansion card is essentially a 1TB NVME SSD encased in a specialized Xbox-compatible shell. Unlike the more complex PS5 SSD installation process, which involves opening up the PS5 to access the SSD slot, the WD expansion card simply plugs into its dedicated port on the back of the Xbox. This expansion card offers the same speed as the internal SSD, ensuring that you won’t sacrifice performance or encounter extended load times as you might with a regular USB drive. With a 1TB expansion card, you can double the storage on your Xbox Series X console and triple the storage on your (white) Xbox Series S console.

If you’re looking for an officially licensed storage solution (which we strongly recommend), your options are limited to either the WD or Seagate expansion cards, underscoring the importance of seizing a good deal when you find one.

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