{"id":135242,"date":"2025-12-17T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195488"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:15:00","slug":"yakuza-kiwami-3-dark-ties-is-getting-its-own-direct-right-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/yakuza-kiwami-3-dark-ties-is-getting-its-own-direct-right-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties Is Getting Its Own Direct Right Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c60d28f82f310\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c60d28f82f310\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"c60d28f82f310\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c60d28f82f310\/yakuza-kiwami-3-and-dark-ties.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c60d28f82f310\/yakuza-kiwami-3-and-dark-ties.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/sega.prezly.com\/yakuza-kiwami-3--dark-ties-direct-airs-tuesday-december-23\">have announced<\/a> that they will be airing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/yakuza-kiwami-3-and-dark-ties\">Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties<\/a> Direct next week, which launches on Switch 2 on 12th February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Direct will be a late one for UK and European folks, with the stream kicking off on <strong>23rd December 2025 at 1am GMT \/ 2am ET<\/strong> \u2014 that&#8217;s <strong>22nd December at 5pm PT \/ 8pm ET<\/strong> for those in North America. It&#8217;ll be available on both <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SEGA_West\">YouTube<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/sega\">Twitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for what to expect, well, it&#8217;s a deep dive \u2014 that&#8217;s basically all we know! &#8220;This Direct will dive into new features, experiences, and gameplay from the upcoming two-in-one title&#8221; Sega says. So expect a little bit of everything.<\/p>\n<p>We wonder whether we&#8217;ll get any hints as to what this enhanced version of the 2009 PS3 title means for the future of the series RGG Studio director Yokoyama Masayoshi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/yakuza-kiwami-3-is-more-than-just-a-remake-and-it-contains-major-hints-for-series-future\">teased this himself a few weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, tune in next week to find out what to expect from Kiryu&#8217;s third (fourth?) chapter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Will you be watching the Yakuza Kiwami 3 direct next week? Let us know in the comments<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:194629,193528 @ 1766020001 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: SEGA SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have announced that they will be airing a Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties Direct next week, which launches on Switch 2 on 12th February 2026. The Direct will be a late one for UK and European folks, with the stream kicking off on 23rd December 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}