Dead or Alive

By David Hinkle Well, that explains it: game adaptations have just been too slavishly devoted to the source material. Oh, if only DOA: Dead or Alive hadn't been so intent on including the franchise's trademark nanobots and assassin sunglasses.EA Montreal VP unconvinced by movies that 'really respect'...

By Ben Gilbert Today is no different, as he pits FFVII's Tifa against Dead or Alive's Hitomi: An epic battle taking place in a church set ablaze while snow quietly falls outside? Some sort of magical, glowing orbs introduced mid-fight? And it involves Japanese video game characters? Weird! Check out t...

By JC Fletcher The first two iPhone games out of Tecmo have been pretty much exactly what we would expect from an early mobile Tecmo game (that wasn't an arcade port of Star Force or something) -- simple minigames with pictures of girls involved. We didn't expect both of them to be blackjack, but that's exa...

The fourth game we played on Gamer Night #3 (August 22, 2007) was Dead or Alive 3 on Xbox. Match 1 is Me vs. Andy. P1- Me/Kasumi P2- Andy/Jann Lee www.gamespot.com

More DOA action on the Playstation 1, with Tina and Leifang duking it out. www.gamespot.com

 NC So no word on what exactly Itagaki's making, but rest assured, he's doing it in good company. The staff of his new team, which is apparently big enough to have a game of American football with, includes key members of the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden ...

By David Hinkle The new company is tentatively called "Tokyo Vikings" (how ... appropriate) and is largely comprised of ex-Team Ninja staff, including a majority of the folks who worked on Ninja Gaiden 2. Surprisingly, his new team even managed to snag some key character designers from Virtua Fighter 5.

Tecmo, the Japanese video game corporation, is famous for many video game series including Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden. Now we have word that Tecmo has announced the casual sports game Family Fun Football for the Wii. The game makes use of the Wii's ...

 CA by Ryan Clements April 17, 2009 - Even though the Guilty Gear series has been occupying the fighting game scene for a long time, it's never garnered the same fan base as mainstream franchises like Street Fighter and Dead or Alive. ...

Additionally, the title will include two new characters – Ayane from Dead or Alive and Momiji from Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword. Tecmo previously released Ninja Gaiden II to Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 in 2008. Sony in Nov. released the 160GB PS3 SKU. ...

Both Ayane (from Dead or Alive and Momiji (from Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword) will be playable characters, though Hayashi explained that they wouldn't be playable immediately from the start of the game. Yosuke Hayashi, waiting patiently in the shadows ...

By Xav de Matos Hayashi realizes Team Ninja is "most well-known" for the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive franchises and knows fans have certain "expectations" but the team would like to move onto new properties. The new Team Ninja lead says it's one of Team Ninja's "goals and missions" in a post-Itagaki re...

Both new playable characters are female – perhaps as a nod to all you teenagers with raging hormones out there – and the first is the sexy, purple-haired Ayane, the ninja from the popular Dead or Alive franchise. And yes, she will have her own skills, ...

 Canada Also, as you’d expect from the makers of Dead or Alive and a lead designer who’s had a sexual harassment suit filed against him, NG II also features rampantly skimpy outfits and full blown breast physics. I’ve come to affectionately refer to this ...

 UK The first Sigma game took the original Xbox version of Ninja Gaiden and threw in a few extras. It sounds like the follow-up will do the same. The new content will apparently include being able to play as Dead or Alive's Ayane. It's also being reported ...

By Andrew Yoon We may not know what Tecmo is planning to announce, but we're confident the game will be for either the PS3 or PSP. Why? Tecmo's announcement will take place at the PlayStation Store in San Francisco. If the company's upcoming game is a PlayStation exclusive, it continues Tecmo's newly-fou...

 CA flamethrower-wielding jerkface – an enemy so pitifully cheap and nasty in his attacks and strength that it damn near ruined an Xbox 360 controller in disgust. Any player of age who remembers the final foe in Dead or Alive 3 (an enemy with a habit ...

 AZ Holly Valance kicked butt in DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) but takes a smaller yet vital role in Taken. Ms. Valance portrays pop superstar “Sheerah”. I was so ticked that it took me thirty minutes to recognize her but y’all know that I rarely forget the ...

By rss@youtube.com (videogamecentral) PS1 Dead or Alive: http://store.videogamecentral.com/ps1-used-dead-or-alive.html Hey Fighters. February is fighting game month. And to kick off the reviews of some of the best fighting games, we are bringing you the original DOA or Dead or Alive for the PS1 and Sega Saturn import. For more...

 CA - Many passionate fighting game enthusiasts have come to love titles and franchises like Dead or Alive or Mortal Kombat, but one series is regarded as the ...

 Netherlands - DOA girls visit the FarCry island by the look of the graphics. The original was good, but this one looks like a 360 remake. Real girls PMS. ...

Kasumi and Hitomi both feel the force of long falls as they fight on the rooftops. www.gamespot.com

Team Ninja brings more bounce to the ounce in Dead or Alive Xtreme 2! Player 9 is required to watch this video. Watch this video in HD 540p You're www.gamespot.com

By Wataru Maruyama(noreply@blogger.com) The good news is that Ninja Gaiden II will have three downloadable costumes for Ryu in July. The bad news is each will cost 200 MS points ($2.50). I’m kind of stunned. That’s a lot of money per outfit. This will suck even more if there aren’t any “free” costumes in the game to unlock.

 CA - Stages in Revolution 2 have two tiered areas, which you can access in a similar fashion to titles like Soul Calibur or Dead or Alive, by tossing a character ...

By Michael McWhertor The CGS focused on competitive gaming in titles like Counter-Strike: Source, Dead or Alive 4, FIFA, World of Warcraft and more. It joins the CPL and World Series of Video Games as failed attempts to garner profitable interest in watching other people play games really, really, really wel...

By Zach Yonzon The CGS featured five games during its two seasons, Counter-Strike: Source, Dead or Alive 4, FIFA 07, and Project Gotham Racing for Season 1; with FIFA 08 and Forza Motorsport 2 taking up the latter two slots in Season 2. Although not included in seasonal coverage, the CGS also recently pro...

They still have Dead or Alive 3, Panzer Dragoon Orta, and even Ultra Bust-a-Move coming up, and this is the best they can do? Was there really a demand? Did Infogrames cut them a really fat check to include it or something? ...

By LB Jeffries Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword - Review -- The entirety of Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is controlled with your stylus. Thats it. Every single button on the DS causes you to block. ... Related articles. Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 ...

By Game-Boy It's no secret that Team Ninja hasn't really had a great year in the press. The makers of the boobtastic Dead or Alive series and brutally unforgiving Ninja Gaiden games has seen a string of missteps and blunders that's more akin to a Mariah Carry Glitter-inspired psychological breakdown...

By Randy Nelson Gamasutra has a post-TGS interview with Tecmo's now Itagaki-less Team Ninja, in which the reign-holder of such franchises as Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive pretty much shrugs off any remaining traces of platform-exclusivity. In fact, it may even develop for Wii.

By James Mielke It's no secret that Tecmo has had it hard of late, with former Team Ninja leader Tomonobu Itagaki having flown the coop, simultaneously launching legal salvos at the already beleaguered company, which played no small part in ex-Tecmo president Yoshimi Yasuda's departure for "persona...

 CA - It's a fighting game, and I use that term extremely loosely. Not since Dead or Alive 4 has there been a game so utterly devoted to its own art style and ...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Good news, Tecmo employees! No no, please don't get up. That bed under your desk really looks quite comfortable and snuggly. Now, if you'll just minimize that window filled with Ninja Gaiden II: Burnt Sienna code ... there, that's it. You'll be pleased to note that Tecmo has reached a settlement...

This isn't Shakespeare. It's not clever or witty or pretentious in its attempt to make a video game (that's where it's spawned from, right? I've never played it) into a movie like some of the others...

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...

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 Shawn Elliott Tomonobu Itagaki's an iconoclast in ink-black sunglasses. The long-haired Team Ninja leader looks and sometimes sounds like a Quentin Tarantino character. He's refreshingly frank and thinks out loud about rival games in genres he works with (see the Tekken series and Heavenly Sword). A...

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 Michael McWhertor Ninja Gaiden for the DS is a welcome surprise, one that plays well and uses the stylus in a totally unique way. Western audiences will probably snap it up, but what about something that will dominate Japanese sales charts. I asked Itagaki if Team Ninja has any plans to make a ninja training app...

By supadupagama Dead or Alive is Tecmo’s flagship fighting series on Xbox and Xbox 360, but today Chinese games developer Shanda Interactive announced a deal with Tecmo to create and operate DOA Online (Dead or Alive Online) PC game in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao.

By Chris Beaumont DOA: Dead or Alive opens with the introduction of three of the primary characters. Princess Kasumi (Sin City and DEBs Devon Aoki), who wishes to find her brother, thought to be killed in DOA; she leaves her clan, despite knowing it will result in her being declared a shinobi and an assassin s...

By T. Rigney Why, you get something along the lines of DOA: Dead or Alive, of course! In case you're not into the whole nerd-addled video game scene, this snazzy yet impossibly retarded little flick is based on the pixilated franchise of the same name, which ultimately boils down to a series of tournam...

By El Bicho The film is based on a long-running fighting game series legendary for its stunning graphics and supernaturally bouncy heroines. The game characters have also been transitioned to a beach volleyball side series that factors into the film as well. While the games have basic storylines, t...

Team Ninja's chief ninja and Dead or Alive mastermind Tomonobu Itagaki is one competitive dude. He says that the projects he's currently working aren't just good, but good. So much so that they'll destroy the hopes and dreams of other developers. Itagaki explains:

By KatherineHannaford Discussions to the tune of 'zomg teh jubblies on teh Dead or Alive birds are da hax0r, w00t!' are as commonplace on the 'tinternet as rumours about the iPhone release date, so I'm not surprised to discover the latest top ten list of 'the hottest game babes to date' doing the rounds of the gami...

If you're going to drop nearly 8200 yen (about $70 American) each on Kotobukiya's Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 Kasumi PVC figures, you're entitled to see how that paint job turned out. Kotobukiya DEAD OR ALIVE XTREME 2 Kasumi "Virgo" and "Southern Cross" Sample Review [Moeyo]

By shawnr@gamesfirst.com (Val Townsend and the GF! Staff) The Atomic Goddess is back, and this week Val spends some quality time with Dead or Alive 4 on the Xbox 360 and The Movies, out now for PC. Val also takes a peek at Shadow Hearts 3: From the New World for PlayStation 2. And, of course, there's a roundup of the biggest news of the past little bit. It's e...

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.

By Brian Crecente A slew of top-notch Japanese developers pledged their undying loyalty to Microsoft at the Xbox 360 Summit 2005. The companies included Square Enix, Taito, Tecmo and Bandai, which announced it is making three exclusive Xbox 360 titles.