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Statement" I, Tomonobu Itagaki, hereby announce that on the 14th of May 2008 I filed a complaint in the Tokyo District Court against Tecmo Co., Ltd. for unpaid completion bonuses, and against the President of Tecmo, Yoshimi Yasuda, for such unlawful acts as unreasonable and disingenuous statements made towards me, claiming damages in total of 148 million yen. I also announce that this complaint was delivered to the defendants on May 22nd of the same year. In addition, I hereby announce that I have today submitted a letter of resignation to Tecmo Co., Ltd. stating that I will resign as of the 1st of July, 2008. Before the start of development on DEAD OR ALIVE 4, Tecmo Co., Ltd. had agreed to pay a completion bonus to me for this Xbox 360 title, which I produced. However, when the... Read more »

Official original post by, Katsutoshi Sasaki, Soulcalibur IV director: The Soul Still Burns.IMO, I am very worried about the commercial success of SCIV and other AAA fighting titles like MKVIII, Tekken 6, Killer Instinct 3, and a little for SF4(the least of worries here) [etc]. I think Virtua Fighter 5 is an awesome game that should have sold a lot more, among others. Why? In an era of shooters, co-op MP, and team MP, fighting games are pretty much left in the cold because only few gamers rise to the top. Thus causing less interest for fighting games than per say, Halo or CoD games--were people can rely on teamwork as well as skill, unlike beat'em ups were in the end, it's all about skills. I am not worried about the quality at all because we have always had great SC games, and the... Read more »