Signed Shenmue II Raffle Winner

Raffle winner Dustin Janzen shows off his prize!

Big congratulations to Dustin Janzen for winning our recent raffle to win a copy of Shenmue II signed by Yu Suzuki himself! Thanks for the picture, Dustin!

The raffle raised money for orphaned kitties at a Japanese animal shelter, as part of the Shenmue Heart of Gold campaign. Major thanks to everyone who took part, and please keep your eyes peeled for future contests announced via this website, the Facebook group, and on our Twitter account.

The raffle was first announced in our Facebook group, following Yu Suzuki's signing of the prize at Gamescom 2017

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Interview with Yu Suzuki (Gamescom 2017)

Shenmue 500K Interview with Yu Suzuki

Right after the release of an in-development teaser video for Shenmue III, Gamescom 2017 in Cologne brought developer Ys Net into the center of a media feeding frenzy, with director Yu Suzuki’s schedule fully booked with interviews that continue to surface on websites of varying languages.

Nonetheless, the legendary creator behind some of Sega’s best loved games (including Virtua Fighter, Out Run, Space Harrier, Daytona USA, and more) still managed to squeeze in two busy Meet & Greet sessions with fans and some exclusive interviews with the Shenmue fan community.

You can already read Shenmue Dojo’s interview on their forum, and another from French site Shenmue Master is on its way. But what follows is the first interview conducted by Shenmue 500K, the series’ largest dedicated Facebook group whose burning questions were crowdsourced from members across the globe.

Relaying these questions on the group’s behalf were Sílvia Vila Tarrés from Barcelona and James Hamill from the UK.

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Welcome to Shenmue500K.net!

Shenmue 500K finally has a website, and it’s Shenmue500K.net. For the first time in our six-year history, we have somewhere to store the kinds of articles and resources that are easily lost under the hustle and bustle of the Shenmue community’s largest and busiest Facebook group.

Our debut article will be the group’s very first interview with Shenmue III director Yu Suzuki, conducted at Gamescom two weeks ago. The website allows us to format this in a way that just isn’t possible on today’s social media, so we’ll be excited to hear your feedback.

Furthermore, this is YOUR website, so please get in touch with any ideas or proposals you have for new content. Our goal is to provide a platform to the wealth of knowledge and talent that makes this community so terrific.

To this end, the admin team can now be reached by email at [email protected] – or reach out to any of us through existing methods via the Facebook group and Twitter (@shen500k).

Thanks for your support, and don’t forget to bookmark us!

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