Dead or Alive

By Richard Mitchell Regarding Quantum Theory itself, the company sees the game as its "third pillar" alongside Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. Character designer Hiroyuki Yazaki notes that Quantum Theory is a departure from other shooters thanks to its AI-controlled female sidekick, Filena. Yazaki state...

By Andrew Yoon Finally! A Dead or Alive game that gets rid of that annoying "fighting" and "volleyball" nonsense. Dead or Alive Paradise is making its way to America on UMD and PSN this March. The game takes place on a two-week vacation on New Zack Island. You'll be able to play with nine Tecmo girls in an assor...

By JC Fletcher The most recent Dead or Alive game to be announced will also be on a Sony platform: the beach minigame collection, DOA Paradise, which is coming to PSP this spring. Maybe now that Itagaki's out, Tecmo can pursue whatever interest it must have had in publishing DOA on PlayStation -- somethin...

Sorry guys, this one won't be available in time for Christmas, but for those of you interested, you can now pre-order this Dead or Alive 4 figure of Ayane. ...

If you're a fan of the Dead or Alive series - mainly the bouncing female mammary gland part, then you're in luck. Tecmo is planning to release a handheld ... Dead or Alive Set for PSPIGN Dead Or Alive Girls Visiting A Handheld Paradise In 2010PSX Extreme

Players get to experience the island resort life with the Dead or Alive virtual babes Ayane, Kokoro, Kasumi, Hitomi, Lei Fang, Elena, Lisa, Christy and tiny ... Dead or Alive heading to PSPExaminer.com Tecmo Brings DOA Beach Volleyball to PSP1UP.com

Set on a remote tropical island, the game features the female fighters from Tecmo's Dead or Alive series playing two-on-two beach volleyball, hopping across ... Dead or Alive hits PSPCVG Online New Dead Or Alive All About The LaydeezTerminal Gamer

By Andrew Yoon Do you love the Dead or Alive franchise? Do you wish Tecmo would just get rid of all that pesky fighting and volleyball gameplay and give fans what they really want out of the franchise: quality alone time with the DoA girls? Thankfully, Tecmo has answered that call. Seriously.

bringing Dead or Alive Paradise to the PlayStation Portable next year in Japan. So before you get excited, here's the thing -- it's not a fighting game. ... Dead Or Alive: Paradise Brings DOA Girls To PSPKotaku.com (blog) all 4 news articles »

Ravasi 16th Dec 2009 A new Dead or Alive is coming for PSP. But before you start considering the kind of combos you'd be able to pull off with Kasumi, ...

TECMO ® Kicks off NBA UNRIVALEDâ„¢ for Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation ® Network press release) The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of TECMO, LTD., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. TECMO is best known for the Dead or Alive ®, Ninja Gaiden ®, Tecmo ... and more »

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

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.

 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. ...

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...

 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 ...

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. ...

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 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 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 Scott On the original xbox, one of the best games for parties was Dead or Alive 3. Something about the combination of the tag team mode with the over-the-top characters just made it fun to watch, and even more fun to play. ...

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 Matthew Share This With Ninja Gaiden 2 just days away from launch the head of Team Ninja at Tecmo, Tomonobu Itagaki, has announced he has resigned his position at the team and is suing parent company Tecmo. The translated letter Itagaki-san has released is re-printed here in full: I, Tomonobu Itag...

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...

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...

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 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.