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A sad and anticlimactic end to a game that might never happen. NetEase is no longer interested in supporting Toshihiro Nagoshi and Nagoshi Studio. Nagoshi took a giant offer from NetEase to form ...

NetEase will stop funding Gang of Dragon developer Nagoshi Studio in May 2026. Sources told Bloomberg that employees were informed of the decision last Friday (March 6). A NetEase spokesperson ...

A Bloomberg reports has claimed that NetEase is pulling its funding for Gang of Dragon, the debt title from ex-Yakuza series boss Toshihrio Nagoshi’s development team, Nagoshi Studio. According to the ...

The new game from former Yakuza producer Toshihiro Nagoshi sounds like it's in serious trouble. Bloomberg reports that Chinese publisher NetEase plans to cut off funding to Nagoshi Studio, which is ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. NetEase is distancing itself even further from investments, and has decided to pull the plug on funding for yet another studio that it helped create.

Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi’s new game is now in doubt after investor NetEase warned his studio that it plans to cut off funding. Gang of Dragon was meant to be the debut game from Nagoshi Studio ...