You remember when Team Ninja producer Yosuke Hayashi said that they were toning down the fan service in DoA5 so that players would focus more on the game’s nuanced fighting mechanics? Yeah, forget all that.
As development budgets grow and profit margins shrink, a lot of video game publishers are turning towards the lucrative free-to-play business model in order to stay afloat. F2P games have already taken over the PC MMO market, and all of the big console manufacturers have announced …
Apparently it’s a big day for patch news, first it was Aliens: Colonial Marines and now Dead or Alive 5. The latest patch for DOA 5, known as patch Ver.1.03, offers some gameplay balancing and online stability patches. Oh and, according to a post on the …
Lonely perverts with an aversion to real women, rejoice: Team Ninja has made a number of announcements over the last few days that should make fans of virtual boobies stand up (*ahem*) and take notice.
Remember a few months back when Dead or Alive 5’s director said that they would tone down the fan service in the latest entry of Tecmo’s infamously bouncy fighter? Yeah, I think it’s safe to say now that he was lying.
Considering the poor reception that both Metroid: Other M and Ninja Gaiden 3 got, it would be pretty easy at this point to write Team Ninja off. The team hasn’t had a hit since its former leader, Tomonobu Itagaki, left the company in 2008 on very …
Tomonobu Itagaki is a guy who speaks his mind. The former head of Tecmo’s Team Ninja and creator of the Dead or Alive series has a reputation for making his opinion known, and his outspoken attitude has caused him to get into some very heated public …
Despite director Tomonobu Itagaki’s departure from Tecmo’s Team Ninja, the company is still going ahead with new entries in the series’ he was formerly in charge of: Tecmo has announced that Ninja Gaiden 3 is scheduled to hit the Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 20th, …
The first details and pictures of Tecmo’s latest entry into the popular (citation needed) Dead or Alive series were revealed today, thanks to Japanese gaming mag Famitsu. The upcoming fighter is currently 15% complete, and Tecmo’s Team Ninja hopes to have the game out for both …
Okay this makes me want to add a “WTF” tag. Dead or Alive is a fighting game series well-known for having some very impressive females, with a huge amount of outfits ranging from typical ninja outfits, to Japanese schoolgirl uniforms, and a very impractical swimsuit that …
