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Former Team Ninja lead Tomonobu Itagaki has said the biggest difference in working for a Western publisher is the massive piles of money available.

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D.I.C.E organisers have announced the first speakers for next year’s event. Valhalla Game Studios boss Tomonobu Itagaki and EA chief creative officer Richard Hilleman. Grammy winner Glen Ballard and military contractor Isaac Gilmore will also be at the event in Las Vegas between February 8-10.

Thanks, GI.Biz.

“I’m thinking about Itagaki and when [former 1UP editor and Q Entertainment's James Mielke] was with you guys that was a big topic — the ‘what are your five most hated games?’ article where he said 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 were all Tekken, right? If Itagaki was still making Dead or Alive, I’d like to ask, out of all the current Tekken titles we have planned, what’s his favorite. His answer would probably be Dead or Alive anyway, and that he hates all Tekken, but it’d be an interesting question. In the past, Itagaki had always mentioned various things about Tekken and stuff, especially on 1UP in his articles with [Mielke]. And there were a few times when I got pissed at what I saw, but I’m kind of realizing that when I saw what he was saying — after he quit Team Ninja, I think he was asked about fighting games and what he thought, and apparently Itagaki said, ‘Well I don’t make fighting games anymore, so I’m not really in a place to comment on that’ — I felt kind of sad when I saw that.” – Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada, speaking to 1UP about Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki’s infamous trash-talking of the series.

The Saints’ next adventure looks to push the concepts of dress sense and decency to their inevitable limits. Brenna Hillier gets overwhelmed in Tokyo.

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Tomonobu Itagaki has said Devil’s Third’s no show from Tokyo Game Show was because it was too early to show the game.

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Valhalla Games Studios head Tomonobu Itagaki has said the firm will use a customized version of Relic’s game engine with Devil’s Third, and adding its own choice of middleware.

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THQ confirmed during TGS 2011 game designer Tomonobu Itagaki will be a playable character in Saints Row: The Third. While folks will be able to use the character creation feature in the game to look however they wish, Itagaki will be a pre-existing character complete with leather jacket and sunglasses. Itagaki is currently working on Devil’s Third, which is to be published by THQ. Thanks, Gamespot.

Former Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki has said developers in the Japanese games industry, especially the younger generation, “shouldn’t be afraid of a slap in the face.”

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If there are two things former Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki knows, they’re action and talking. And hey, it just so happens that he thinks most Japanese developers are miserable at both.

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Valhalla boss Tomonobu Itagaki has confirmed that Devil’s Third won’t launch until early 2013.

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Valhalla Game Studios’ Tomonobu Itagaki has confirmed to Famitsu at E3 that Devil’s Third is only 30 percent finished. He admitted there it was now at the point where quality was constantly being upped. The THQ-published actioner will be properly shown again at Tokyo Game Show in September.

Devil’s Third launches in 2012 for PS3 and 360. Thanks, Andriasang.

Devil’s Third and Ninja Gaiden designer Tomonobu Itagaki has expressed his admiration for US publishing executives, while suggesting their Japanese equivalents are a bit lost.

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Devil’s Third was notably absent from THQ’s E3 lineup announcement, but it is going to the Tokyo Game Show. Here’s a teaser video for the trailer they might actually show in September.

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Valhalla Game Studios has announced it’s brought in Tokyo-based developer Score Studios to help development of Devil’s Third.

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Warhammer 40,000 and Company of Heroes developer Relic is not the first studio you’d think of for the role, but the veteran RTS team are contributing to Itagaki’s third-person action title, Devil’s Third.

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Team Ninja studio boss Yosuke Hayashi has said that after the initial shock of Tomonobu Itagaki and other high-level members of the development studio leaving the firm two years ago, he and the remaining members had to “rethink” their approach to game development.

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Microsoft and Sony have all but faked their own deaths on the spot in order to avoid talking about the next-next-gen of gaming consoles.

Valhalla Entertainment founder Tomonobu Itagaki, however, isn’t waiting around for silly little things like details and tangible hardware.

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Tomonobu Itagaki has joked to Famitsu that Devil’s Third is currently 11 percent finished.

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THQ’s confirmed it’s releasing Devil’s Third sometime before April 2013, before the firm’s FY 2014. In a nutshell: it’s a very long way out.

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Tomonobu Itagaki has joined Keiji Inafune in kicking the Japanese games industry while it’s down, saying it’s currently dying.

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