‘Dead or Alive’ creator Tomonobu Itagaki has started a new games studio
Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden director Tomonobu Itagaki has announced the creation of a new studio, Itagaki Games.The announcement was made on his Facebook page on January 17, where he posted a full transcript of an interview with Bloomberg. Towards the end of the interview, Itagaki responds to a question asking him what he has been doing recently, saying: “For the past four years, I’ve been teaching job to foster juniors, but now I feel like I want to make a game again and just establish a company for that purpose.”There was little else revealed about the specifics of the studio, though Itagaki did say that his new studio is “not Tecmo, nor Valhalla” which are the the previous studios he had worked with for Dead or Alive and Devil’s Third