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Sega’s Shenmue social mobile experiment closes

Sunsoft and Ys Net have shuttered Shenmue Town, the Japanese free-to-play mobile social game based on Sega and Yu Suzuki’s cult series, just a year after its launch. Released on the Japan-only Yahoo! Mobage service, the game was a spin-off of Sega AM2’s divisive Shenmue series on Dreamcast and the original Xbox, which developed a devoted following but was considered a commercial failure. The game’s termination so soon after its debut may jeopardize the chances …