Yakuza Creator’s New Game Seems To Have Lost Its Director After NetEase Reportedly Pulled Funding

Kotaku | 18.06.2026 01:25
Nagoshi Studios, the studio created by Toshihiro Nagoshi and Daisuke Sato after their departure from Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio in 2021, has seemingly been dying a slow death over the last year. Today, another nail seems to have been driven into the coffin, with Sato now listing himself as “ex-Nagoshi Studio” on his Twitter/X bio.