Passionate about working with Xbox once again
Looks like there’s a new gun in town. Charismatic producer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of fighting franchise Dead or alive and the head honks behind the modern Ninja Gaiden titles, announced that he had set up his own studio – Itagaki Games.
The news was revealed in an excerpt from a recent interview between Itagaki and Bloomberg, which focused on the twentieth anniversary of Xbox. Itagaki Games will exist as its own endeavor and is not affiliated with studios such as Koei Tecmo, Valhalla or Team Ninja, with which Itagaki has been closely associated in the past.
In the interview (which you can check out on Facebook) Itagaki notes how comfortable he felt when he worked with Microsoft / Xbox in the early 00’s, specifically with the Xbox launch title Dead or Alive 3. In the interview, Itagaki also expressed satisfaction at the possibility of collaborating with the industry giant again.
“All the main Xbox team, including Seamus Blackley, Ed Fries, Kevin Bachus, their leader Robbie Bach and George Peckham, who regularly played golf with me, gave me their full support,” Itagaki recalls. ‘I visited Redmond once every two months, and they suggested a lot of tools and support to me that would help speed up the development of the game. […] If they reach out to me, it will be an honor for me. ‘
It will be interesting to see what Itagaki and his team envision for the new generation of games. Now on the steering wheel, Itagaki fans could see a series of releases highlighting the producer’s success in the past, such Dead or Alive 4 or Ninja Gaiden Black. So thumbs up so we do not forget The Devil’s Third also exist.
Tomonobu Itagaki score Itagaki game [Gematsu / Facebook]
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