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The Yakuza series of games is notorious for slow localizations, with Western releases often coming years after the game debuted in Japan. Some of Yakuza’s spinoffs–most notably the historical games that take Yakuza’s main cast back to the 17th and 19th centuries–have never been localized, though at least someone at …

The head of Amazon’s new Luna streaming service has left the company. Marc Whitten, a longtime gaming executive who previously worked at Xbox, left Amazon this month to join another game company, Unity, as its SVP and GM. Researcher Matthew Ball noticed Whitten’s move and posted about it on Twitter. …

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War‘s big Season 2 update is finally here, but the launch didn’t go precisely to plan. Developer Treyarch has acknowledged a few stability issues in the new Outbreak mode for Zombies and has pledged to fix them in the future. Treyarch says it’s aware …