Earlier today, Shenmue III became the most funded video game Kickstarter ever.

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At time of writing, there are 11 hours to go in the Shenmue III Kickstarter campaign and it has currently raised a little over $5.6 million. This means that it has broken the previous record of $5,545,991 set by Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained. The Shenmue III Kickstarter had already smashed the world record for fastest crowd-funded game to reach $1 million To mark the final day of the Kickstarter campaign, creator Yu Suzuki released a video . In it, he says "you and I have had a shared dream for the past 14 years. Now it's time to make our dream of Shenmue III a reality."There's a long road of development ahead for Shenmue III, but Yu Suzuki has already started to plan Shenmue 4

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