RGG Studio
The SEGA team behind Yakuza / Like a Dragon, Judgment and STRANGER THAN HEAVEN.
RGG Studio (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio) is a development team inside SEGA, named after the Japanese title of its most famous series, Ryu ga Gotoku, known in the West as Yakuza and now Like a Dragon. Its roots go back to SEGA’s arcade teams of the late 1990s, and it took the RGG name in 2011.
Who leads it
The studio was founded and long led by Toshihiro Nagoshi, a SEGA veteran known for Daytona USA. He left in October 2021, and Masayoshi Yokoyama, a writer on the series from the very first game, became studio head. Yokoyama has described RGG less as a company and more as a production team within SEGA.
What they make
- Yakuza / Like a Dragon, since 2005
- Judgment and Lost Judgment
- Super Monkey Ball
- Virtua Fighter
STRANGER THAN HEAVEN
Revealed under the codename Project Century, STRANGER THAN HEAVEN is the studio’s new crime saga. It spans 50 years and five Japanese cities and tells the origin of the Tojo Clan from Like a Dragon, while being playable without knowing the series.
