Clap Hanz made a new model for Kazuma and he looks cuter so he fits in with the other characters… when he’s not bashing them with a golf club off screen.

Kazuma Kiryu will be a downloadable character in Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational aka Everybody’s Golf 6 in Japan.

Sega provided figures for Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and Yakuza 5 as part of their latest earnings report.

Sales tracker, Media Create, have released a list for the top-30 best-selling games in Japan for 2012.

DmC Devil May Cry and Digimon Adventure ventured out into the wild last week in Japan.

The week after the holidays is when sales drop across the board, and that’s what happened in Japan last week.

Fantasy Life, Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone, and Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney showed up to celebrate the holidays in Level 5 style.

Also dress Shun Akiyama as a robotic loan shark with Sega’s January downloadable content update.

Sega just released a third wave of downloadable content for Yakuza 5 and the big addition is an update that adds online play to Virtua Fighter 2 – the virtual Virtua Fighter 2 machines inside the Club Sega arcades within Yakuza 5.

Yakuza 5 sold through 65.80% of its initial shipment in its first week.

The Wii U launched in Japan this past weekend, with New Super Mario Bros. U and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate at its side.

Trouble seems to follow the hardboiled Taiga Saejima wherever he goes. In Yakuza 5, he finds himself back in prison to start his journey. He escapes when a newspaper arrives saying “Goro Majima, dead”.

We’ve seen Yakuza booze before and Sega is upping the ante for Yakuza 5. If you buy the PlayStation 3 Emblem Edition bundle at certain stores like the Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara you can enter a raffle for Yakuza swag.

Hey it’s Yakuza producer Masayoshi Yokoyama and he’s here to show us Yakuza 5′s hostess chatting system. Sega revamped this part with a free action system that has more conversation options and hostesses talk in Yakuza 5.