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By Gino D. As some of you may know, Team Ninja has only ever worked on two franchises: Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. Both of which had huge contributions from Itagaki. Will the three new games take from these franchises or will they be revealing ...

N-Sider.com  CA - Tecmo is best known for their fighting series Dead or Alive, their action series Ninja Gaiden, and their horror franchise Fatal Frame. ... Square Invaders Gaiden N-Sider.com all 2 news articles

In some surprising news late last week, Square Enix (of Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest fame) has made a bid to acquire Tecmo (of Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden fame). The deal is said to be worth $102 million. Square Enix president, Yoichi Wada ...

By Rajiv Ashrafi Japanese developer Square Enix announced that it has made a “friendly” offer to acquire a controlling stake in Tecmo, the studio behind Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. Tecmo has until September 4 to respond to the offer, which will see ...

Japanese RPG specialist announces intentions to takeover Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden developer MCV is the leading news site for the game industry. Check out our news, press releases and interviews.

 UK - Aug 29, 2008 Tecmo is of course home to the Ninja Gaiden and the Dead or Alive games, but has hit financial troubles amid legal wranglings over unpaid bonuses to ...

By Mabie A. The developer, responsible for bringing us solid hits like Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, has been in quite some trouble for a while now, having Tomonobu Itagaki filing a lawsuit against them, and with employees resigning and grumbling ...

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 NY - Yasuda has recently resigned in wake of a slew of labor dispute legal trouble with Team Ninja and Dead or Alive member Tomonobu Itagaki. ...

 Finland - Tecmolta ja Team Ninjan johdosta ovet paukkuen alkukesästä lähtenyt Dead or Alive- ja Ninja Gaiden -sarjojen isä Tomonobu Itagaki on 1UP-sivuston ...

By Majed Athab According to former Tecmo employee and Team Ninja leader Tomonobu Itagaki (Dead or Alive series, Ninja Gaiden Sigma), developing for the PS3 is easy-peasy. "I don't think that developing for the PS3 is hard at all. ...

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By Content Keyword RSS Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive company Tecmo has announced that its president Yoshimi Yasuda will resign, following a wave of bitter lawsuits from employees.

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By Andy Chalk Tecmo has announced the resignation of president Yoshimi Yasuda, which would hardly be worth commenting on if it weren't for the many questions surrounding his role in the company's troubles with Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki ...

 - The bailout comes after DoA creator (and all round badass) Tomonobu Itagaki filed a lawsuit against Tecmo over "special incentives" for Dead or Alive 4 that ...

 NY - Yasuda is stepping down as Tecmo is embroiled in the midst of an ongoing lawsuit with Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki. ...

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 NC - Tekken, Dead or Alive, Soulcalibur, Virtua Fighter and Mortal Kombat releases all found their way into my gaming schedule occasionally. ...

 CA - Maybe Dead or Alive, but only one of those fighting game series has a new game on the shelves. We've brought you plenty of Soulcalibur coverage in the past ...

By Mark Pollard Having arrived in the $5 bin at a local retailer, Dimension Films’ release of Corey Yuen’s DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE has finally drawn my attention long enough to review it. The disc is part of The Weinstein Company’s “Dimension Extreme” ...

The network performance seems excellent, and on par with other Xbox Live enabled fighters such as Dead or Alive 4 and Virtua Fighter 5. Expect little to no lag with two to three South African players, although a full four-player game or ...

 Danmark - Aug 9, 2008 Tekken og Dead or Alive handler meget om at få modstanderen i luften eller stoppe sine kombinationer og lave noget uventet, før modstanderen regner angrebet ...

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By Mark B. casual or arcade-styled gameplay, and while games like Sega’s Beach Spikers and Tecmo’s Dead or Alive Extreme games are entertaining in their own ways, they’re not really meant for someone looking for a more realistic experience. ...

By Jonathan Ninja Gaiden 2 Box Art Revealed; Ninja Gaiden 2 Confirmed for the Xbox 360; Itagaki Says He's Done With Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive; Ninja Gaiden Sigma Site Goes Live; Ninja Gaiden 2 Getting Costumes as DLC.

Q&A: Sasaki On Soulcalibur IV's Franchise Evolution  CA - Aug 1, 2008 Soulcalibur is a deep fighting game series, but compared to the fighters in the same tier - Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Dead or Alive - it's also accessible to ...

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 UK - Jul 31, 2008 fought match after competing on four games - FIFA 2008 (PC), Forza Motorsport 2 (XBOX 360), Counter Strike: Source (PC) and Dead or Alive 4 (XBOX 360). ...

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By Bat McStar Extra Note: Sadly, this game is most likely the last game the series' creator Tomonobu Itagaki will create for the Dead or Alive series, since he resigned from Tecmo due to differences with the company and is currently suing Tecmo's ...

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Birmingham Salvo Wins US$500000 Grand Prize and Title of CGS 2008 ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - Jul 29, 2008 On the Xbox 360, CGS features Tecmo's Dead or Alive(R) 4 (DOA4) and Forza Motorsport(R) 2 from Microsoft Game Studios. Each CGS team features a total of ten ...

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Movie File: Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, 'Napoleon Dynamite' And More  - Jul 26, 2008 Now Roberts is lending his newfound street cred to "DOA: Dead or Alive," a currently filming action movie based on the hit videogame of the same name. ...

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By Mike Fahey First 4 Figures is thrilled to announce that they have been awarded a license from Microsoft and TECMO/Team Ninja to create high end 1/4 scale statues based on the characters from the Ninja Gaiden II video game exclusive to Xbox 360. The first statue release is the video game’s super Ninja w...

 NC - Jul 24, 2008 Nearly two months after Itagaki, who gained notoriety for reviving Ninja Gaiden and developing Dead or Alive, sued Tecmo left the company due to unpaid ...

 - Jul 24, 2008 On the Xbox 360, CGS features Tecmo's Dead or Alive(R) 4 (DOA4) and Forza Motorsport(R) 2 from Microsoft Game Studios. Each CGS team features a total of ten ...

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By Stephany Itagaki is suing Tecmo over “special incentives” for Dead or Alive 4 that he was never paid. According to Tomonobu Itagaki, he was to receive 6.66% of profits generated from the sale of the game, but Tecmo president Yasuda says that ...

 NY - Jul 23, 2008 Today as the second round of oral arguments for the Itagaki vs. Tecmo case commenced in which Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki is suing over supposed ... Itagaki Didn't Leave Tecmo, He Was Fired Kotaku.com all 2 news articles

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By Brian Ashcraft Tecmo suit, Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki submitted evidence that included an affidavit from Ninja Gaiden II producer Yoshifuru Okamoto, a contract from 2005 that seems to clearly state terms of the Dead or Alive 4 bonus and a ...

By Brian Ashcraft Tecmo case commenced. As we broke early last month, Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki left Tecmo and filed suit for unpaid bonuses. As Itagaki stated then, "President Yoshimi Yasuda chose not only to violate this agreement, ...

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 CA - Jul 23, 2008 He commented that publishers and games with PDLC, such as Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball and Rock Band are just barely touching the surface when it ...

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 NY - Jul 16, 2008 Looks like ex-Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki was onto something with the relaxing "vacation game" concept when he made Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach ...

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By Mike Blitz Quick Review DOA: Dead or Alive’s dumb story, total lack of a premise, and randomness clearly keep the film from scoring high on an aggregate. But if you have low expectations, [...]

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 NY - When a tried-and-true AAA developer like Team Ninja can release a completely broken game (Dead or Alive 4) and still get good reviews simply based on the ...

By BlitzAceSamy Played Dead or Alive 4. Kasumi. I don't understand why Jia Hao prefers using guys though. C'mon! It's Dead or Alive 4!! O______o; Kenny, Jia Hao and Khai Ming went to play Halo 3. Aaron and I continued playing Pokémon cards. ...

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It's a bittersweet day for Ninja Gaiden fans. Today's the release of Ninja Gaiden II on the Xbox 360, but at the same time, there's news that Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki, game designer behind the Ninja Gaiden series, has resigned from Tecmo. It's not a result of Ninja Gaiden II, but the afte...

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By Chris Kohler On the eve of the release of Ninja Gaiden II comes an out-of-nowhere shocker: The game's creator, Tomonobu Itagaki, has said that he will quit Tecmo and sue the company's president. 1up.com reports that Itagaki sent a statement to Japanese... Itagaki Leaving Team Ninja [1up]

By Brian Ashcraft Tomonobu Itagaki is leaving Tecmo and suing the company for unpaid bonuses. The Dead or Alive creator cites an unfulfilled Dead or Alive 4 completion bonus, stating, "President Yoshimi Yasuda chose not only to violate this agreement, but also turned defiant, telling me 'if you are dissa...

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By Mark Wilson New numbers have come from Famitsu, who has broken down Japanese sales figures on the top 50 Xbox 360 games since launch. None of the results are good. While Blue Dragon, an RPG by famous Final Fantasy developer Hironobu Sakaguchi was indeed Japan's most successful 360 title, it only sold 20...

By supadupagama PS: The reason we mention the PC game as the “real Dead or Alive Online” title is because the Xbox game Dead or Alive Ultimate was known as Dead or Alive Online during development, since that was the first fighting game in the series to go online back in 2004. Via C&VG

Originally set to be released during the Oscar-bait months as an odd sort of counterprogramming, DOA is likely to work far better in the season of sunshine and school breaks. Corey Yuen (The Transporter) delivers one of the year's purest entertainments, the best butt-kicking PG-13 biki...

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS There was a time when movies like “DOA: Dead or Alive” lurked sheepishly at schoolboy height on video store shelves, spines straining to accommodate the charms of their actresses.

Dull on arrival despite a steady array of kung fu fighting beauties in itty-bitty bikinis, “DOA: Dead or Alive� shouldn't set itself up for the obvious response with a title like that.

About Dead or Alive 4 Dead or Alive 4 also boasts incredible new interactive stages, an all star line-up of old and new favorite characters, and the most complex DOA countering system yet, all adding up to the must-have video game to own along with Xbox 360.