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Shenmue III smashes $2m Kickstarter target

Nine hours after it was announced at Sony’s E3 2015 press conference, Yu Suzuki’s Kickstarter for the long-awaited Shenmue III has broken through it’s $2m target.

It’s now day two of the 31 day campaign and the total has almost

reached $3m. At this rate, the stretch target of $4m could be reached by the end of the week.

According to a Eurogamer report, Sony is a partner for this game. Gio Corsi, Sony PlayStation’s director of third party production and developer relations said, “Sony and PlayStation is definitely a partner in this game. It’s going be run through third-party production. We’re going to help YsNet get the game done. We’re going to be partners on it the whole way.”

It looks like Shenmue III could be a PlayStation exclusive, but that’s yet to be confirmed. The game has a tentative release date of December 2017.

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Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.