Dead or Alive

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 ...

Tecmo responds to Itagaki lawsuit - pc.qj.net

Itagaki quits Tecmo, then sues them - CVG Online

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 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. ...

 India - Some of the most popular games played are ‘Guitar Hero’, ‘Dead or Alive’, ‘Halo 03’ and soccer games. Keeping India and their love for cricket in mind they ...

 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

 - 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 ...

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

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, ...

By Jordan Williams | 2008-07-10 00:00:00 Last week I was challenged. This week...I accept. DOA: Dead or Alive flew a bit under the radar in terms of the box office, but everyone who played the game had something to say about this 'bad' movie. But you know what? I think it was. ...

 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 Rajiv Ashrafi Itagaki, hoping to prove that he never received a completion bonus for his work on Dead or Alive 4, sibmitted a contract that affirmed his claims of the promised bonus. Tecmo submitted a similar contract, but the bonus clause was ...

Tecmo, Itagaki Submit Contradicting Evidence, Suspicions of ... - Shacknews

The Tecmo drama continues: differing contracts are presented as ... - Destructoid

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...

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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 mgreene If your life seems to be lacking a certain academic something, Jesper Juul of The Ludologist (among other things) has posted his conference paper from the September Digital Games Research Association international conference in Tokyo. I admit that since I'm backlogged in slogging thr...

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 Nicolo S. After proudly dubbing Dead or Alive 4 as the premiere fighting game on Xbox 360, Itagaki promised a better Ninja Gaiden this time around thanks to the power of the new platform it's appearing on. In fact, he proclaimed Ninja Gaiden 2 as the best action game in the world even before it appears o...

By Flynn De Marco This weekend marked the first ever Iron-Man Gaming Competition presented by Video Gamers League and creators Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig of ScrewAttack.comin Dallas, Texas. Eighty contestants competed in six different games (Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man: Championship Editio...

By Brian Ashcraft For those who didn't get enough Super Swing Golf, more is coming. That's right, PangYa 2 will be hitting the Wii... Sometime. This winter, apparently. (Doesn't it even matter? The prequel came out last winter!) While the game did feature cute versions of Dead or Alive characters, it didn't exac...

By Ryan C. Tomonobu Itagaki of Team Ninja fame, and admittedly one of the videogame industry's more controversial identities to date, recently sat down in an interview to talk about all things Ninja Gaiden - specifically, about the series coming out on the DS, as well as a possible sequel to the awe...

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...

The $21 million dollar flick has grossed $6.16 million worldwide so far. North American DVD release is scheduled for September 4th. Why didn't the studio cut and their loses and release this straight-to-DVD? Damn, pride is sure expensive. Brian Ashcraft

By Ross Miller Gamespot: Beautiful Katamari coming to Xbox Live Arcade Tomb Raider: Anniversary episodes hitting Xbox 360 in September Dead or Alive movie dead on arrival Soul Calibur IV's bountiful bouncing breasts bulge bigger Afro Samurai going the way of the video game

DOA: Dead or Alive" aspires to be nothing more than a sanctuary from thinking. Say you just graduated high school or college, and the beach isn't an immediate option. You can just walk into any screening of this video-game adaptation and let its divine dumbness waft over you like sea breezes....

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.

Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans and Ioan Gruffudd are back to don their superhero costumes again in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Tim Story picks up where he left off, but amps up the thrills this time around with the arrival of a Silver Surfer hellbent on destroying...

Make the jump from Pixels to 24 Frames per second with the latest video game adaptation. *Disclaimer: This movie has nothing to do with the 80's Band of the same name*

'DOA: Dead or Alive' loses in first round - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

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By JC Fletcher There are several groups within Team Ninja. The PS3 group, the Xbox 360 group, and there are Wii fans in Team Ninja." At this point, any new Team Ninja game is, statistically speaking, most likely to be a port of either Ninja Gaiden or Dead or Alive 2. If you like either of those games (and why not?...

Paper mag Electronic Gaming Monthly has the inside dope on Namco's new Soul Calibur fighter. Not just regular inside dope, but exclusive inside dope. Here's teaser: If you're hankering for a virtual fistfight, top-quality options about — the Virtua Fighter, Tekken, and Dead or Alive fra...

By Ross Miller Dead or Alive movie slated for June 15 Konami to re-release every Metal Gear Solid in Japan Lair gets new name in Japan: 'Rise from Lair' Halo 3 chopper, more confirmed BioShock drowns us with gameplay montage Sega releases Phantasy Star-branded texting gadget for PS2, Xbox 360

By Gino D. Compared Virtua Fighter to DoA though, it was explained to be a difference between your approach on developing the fighting game. DoA was said to be more a character-driven. In light of this, they spring-boarded onto the Virtua Fighter franchise as a whole and what its philosophy is. The ans...

By Ross Miller uery Jaffe swears off blogging ... was it something we said? review: The King of Kong (film) The video with the most card-on-card action: Eye of Judgment gameplay Rumors & Speculation Rumor: New Dead or Alive will be PS3 exclusive

By Justin McElroy Insert your own jiggling pun here, EGM is reporting the rumor that Team Ninja's crafting a new Dead or Alive title that will be exclusive to the PS3. There's no word on if this is a new branch of the series or the Dead or Alive 5 that alleged joker, smoker and midnight poker Tomonobu Itagaki conf...

By Scott Weinberg This moves the Elisha Cuthbert thriller from a head-to-head sorta-battle with Shrek the Third and positions it up against a whole bunch of movies, such as the fact-based tragedy A Mighty Heart, the big-time comedy Evan Almighty, the historical drama September Dawn, and the oft-delaye...

By Ian C. Other rumors reported include speculations that game developer Hudson Soft is working on a version of Bonk for the Wii and the Nintendo DS; Capcom's making a remake of the original Megaman solely for the PlayStation Network; Level 5's Professor Layton for the PSP is coming to North Ameri...

By ken@legitreviews.com (Ken Brown) The Championship Gaming Series (CGS), the first global professional gaming league, announced today that worldwide salaries and bonuses for the 2007 season will exceed $5 million! Counter-Strike: Source, Dead or Alive 4, Project Gotham Racing 3, and FIFA 2007 we named as official gam...

By KatherineHannaford 7.) Kreia from Knights Of The Old Republic II: The Sith Lords - Unfamiliar to me, this character was mentioned my 90% of the men I questioned in regards to this list. Chris from Xboxer summed it up best with ''she actually made the dark side interesting, better than that whole good vs. evil thing...

By editor@totalvideogames.com The delayed Xbox 360 title finally gets its European release, but does it meet expectations...

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.