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Yu Suzuki launches Kickstarter campaign for Shenmue III (update)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Update 4:45 p.m.: As GamesBeat reported this morning, Shenmue III successfully hit is goal in under 10 hours.

LOS ANGELES — In one of the surprises of the day, former Sega game creator Yu Suzuki announced that he would start a Kickstarter campaign to fund Shenmue III, the third part of his modern role-playing and fighting video game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.