Fans of Gang of Dragon spent part of yesterday thinking Nagoshi Studio had wiped its YouTube channel, and the timing made the scare land harder than it otherwise would have. The studio, led by Toshihiro Nagoshi after he left Ryu Ga Gotoku, is already facing questions about NetEase funding, so a missing channel looked like another bad sign for the Yakuza spiritual successor.
By this morning, the channel was back up, though it still showed no listed videos. That matters because players following Gang of Dragon have been watching every move around Nagoshi Studio for signs the project is stable, and this one looked like a possible warning flare before it turned into a false alarm.
Reddit users kicked off the panic after claiming that “the YouTube channel and Gang of Dragon trailer” had disappeared from Nagoshi Studio’s online presence. The reaction spread fast across the day, and that’s not hard to understand when a studio already sits under a cloud of funding concerns. For fans waiting on Gang of Dragon, even a brief outage can feel like the floor dropping out from under the project.
What looked like a deleted trailer turned out to be a messier, less dramatic situation. Nagoshi Studio’s official Gang of Dragon trailer in promotions is the one from The Game Awards 2025, where the game was announced, and that version is still up. The studio apparently never posted that trailer to its own channel in the first place, so it couldn’t have deleted it from there.
As for the channel itself, it never looked like a busy archive. The account had only a few hundred followers and, before the brief takedown, seemingly only one video: an unlisted, 1:21-long music video Nagoshi shared to Twitter and the studio website in November of 2024. That detail changes the read on the situation quite a bit. This looked less like a studio vanishing act and more like an unused account getting shut down, then restored.