Shenmue 3 launches on Kickstarter with $2 million goal

Well, I guess I have a hat to eat. Yu Suzuki is doing a Kickstarter for Shenmue 3 and it debuted live on Sony's stage. What the hell are we all smoking? This can't be real. I'd link you to the Kickstarter but the whole site has instantly collapsed

And here it is — today marks the beginning of the Shenmue III project on Kickstarter. If there were to be a sequel to Shenmue, I wanted the voices of the fans to be heard, so we could make it together. I knew that could happen 

But if you enjoy setting yourself up for disappointment the following photos have been doing the rounds, and purport to show a teaser trailer for Shenmue III – on what looks like PlayStation 4 and PC. The obviously faked images first appeared on

Video games have been a staple of Kickstarter, amassing millions of dollars in support. But Shenmue 3 is arguably the most famous franchise to hit the platform. The page launched minutes ago and is already over $30,000. We'll be monitoring the game

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