Shenmue Town

Shenmue Goes Social on Yahoo's New PC Service

The third Shenmue game has been announced at last! Sega is currently developing Shenmue City for Yahoo! Japan and DeNA's new Yahoo! Mobage service.

 

Yahoo! Mobage is a PC-based social games service that saw its grand opening today. The service was running in beta since September 21. The name combines Yahoo!'s name with the name of DeNA's hugely popular "Mobagetown" mobile service.

 

Shenmue City was listed by Yahoo! Japan and DeNA today as one of the premier titles for the new service. A press release from the two firms says that Shenmue City is the first entry in the Shenmue series in 8 years and will be released this Winter.

 

The release refers to the game as "the third entry" in the series, although this probably isn't meant to mean that it's Shenmue III.

 

Shenmue City will feature alongside such games as One Million Person Ambition of Nobunaga from Tecmo Koei and Persona Social from Atlus on the new service. Yahoo and DeNA say they have over 100 titles lined up, including games from Electronic Arts' Playfish brand.

 

To sample Yahoo! Mobage for yourself, visit the portal site.

 

EPIC CORRECTION

 

The original version of this story listed the game as a cell phone title. While the Mobagetown service is a popular mobile gaming service, this announcement concerns a PC service from Yahoo and Mobagetown operator DeNA. Tremendous apologies to both Sega and Shenmue fans.

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Sunsoft Are Publishing Shenmue Town In Japan

If you’re just getting caught up, Shenmue Town was originally announced as a digital PC game for the Yahoo! Mobage site — a collaboration between DeNA’s digital Mobage Town platform and Yahoo! in Japan.

 

So just what is Shenmue Town? For SEGA fans back in the days of the Dreamcast, Shenmue and its sequel were high on the list of gaming priorities. The games were open-world action-adventure titles with a heavy focus on telling a dramatic story.

 

The Shenmue games are now famous for being some of the most expensive projects undertaken by SEGA. If you’re having a hard time drawing up an image in your head, think of SEGA’s newer Yakuza series as a spiritual successor to the Shenmue franchise.

 

New details reveal Shenmue Town to be a “gaiden” (sidestory) game set in the city of Yokosuka, which is where the first Shenmue game took place. The game is being developed by YS Net under the supervision of SEGA and published, surprisingly, by Sunsoft.

 

Additionally, it appears Shenmue Town isn’t just a PC game — it’s also a mobile game on the Mobage Town platform, although it’s unclear as whether there will be any differences between the two versions. Like other Mobage titles, Shenmue Town is free-to-play with a micro-transaction model that relies on users buying items in the game with real money.

 

SEGA and Sunsoft are pushing Shenmue Town pretty hard, too. The game is being referred to as the long-awaited revival of the Shenmue franchise. The game’s official Twitter feed indicates that pre-registration for Shenmue Town, set to launch this winter, has already begun.

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