Yakuza Kiwami 3 Is Official, And It’s Out Next Year With A Bonus New Spinoff Game

Following Sega’s Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios accidentally leaking nan game's beingness past week, Yakuza Kiwami 3 has been officially announced by nan developer during its RGG Summit presentation. Like Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 before it, Yakuza Kiwami 3 is a afloat remake of an early introduction successful nan long-running series, successful this lawsuit 2009’s Yakuza 3, which primitively launched connected nan PlayStation 3.

Yakuza Kiwami 3 is different ground-up remake from RGG, featuring modern graphics, enhanced gameplay and caller cutscenes. The crippled continues nan adventures of nan (at this constituent successful nan story) middle-aged Kazuma Kiryu, who temporarily puts his criminal profession connected clasp to thief tally an orphanage that will go very important successful later entries successful nan series. Yakuza Kiwami 3 is besides bundled pinch a free spinoff crippled called Dark Ties, which focuses connected Kiryu’s adversary, Yoshitaka Mine.

Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties will beryllium released connected February 12, 2026, for PS4 and PS5, Xbox and PC (Steam), arsenic good arsenic nan Switch 2. Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 are some coming to Switch 2 later this year, and RGG has besides announced that Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut is coming to PS5, Xbox and PC connected December 8. The expanded type of what galore see to beryllium nan champion Yakuza crippled of each clip has been a Switch 2 exclusive until now.

This week’s RGG Summit besides gave america a little update connected nan studio’s adjacent game, Stranger Than Heaven, which we still cognize very small about, different than that it’s abstracted from nan Like a Dragon and Judgement bid and is group during aggregate clip periods successful nan 20th century. The crippled is still respective years distant from release, but a caller behind nan scenes trailer shows disconnected snippets of in-game footage and mobility seizure sessions pinch actors.

At nan clip of writing, we’re still waiting for an announcement of nan adjacent Like a Dragon game, pinch nan astir caller introduction being this year’s wonderfully titled Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza successful Hawaii.