It feels like we’ve entered a golden age for video game adaptions between the likes of Fallout, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Last of Us, Arcane, and many more. The list of not just good but genuinely great adaptions keeps on growing, and hopefully we’ll have a new one to add to that list this year. Amazon has announced a live-action adaption of Sega’s cult classic series Yakuza, and it already has a release date of October 25. Seeing the show launch so soon is surprising, but if there’s one video game series that feels like the perfect fit for television, it’s Yakuza. It could, and should, be a slam dunk for Prime Video, which is already riding high on the success of the Fallout series.
