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Team Ninja founder Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away at 58, but his impact on the gaming industry should not be forgotten

Ninja Gaiden reboot and Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away, leaving a legacy of visually pioneering titles.

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Legendary Dead or Alive developer Tomonobu Itagaki dies aged 58

R.I.P. Legend.

Dot Esports

Team Ninja, Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai, and "rival" Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada pay tribute to iconic Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki

The Team Ninja founder has passed away at the age of 58

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One of Pokémon’s most overlooked game needs a sequel, and Legends: Z-A’s Mega teases prove it

This game never got the treatment it deserved.

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Harada on creating Miary Zo— TEKKEN’s first Madagascar representative

"Although it's somewhere where most people have heard of before, no one knows a whole lot about it"

Destructoid

Harada feels like making Tekken Tag Tournament 3 wouldn’t make much sense and that TEKKEN needs a tag mode instead

"That's something the next generation can decide."

Destructoid

Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has been dumping lore about the series over the weekend, including why Heihachi has around 25 kids

He also dropped the most convenient reason possible for Ogre to return as a playable character

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs use Tekken 8 mod on a lunch break to figure out whether Verso or Renoir is stronger, attracting the attention of fighting series boss Katsuhiro Harada

"Is that a leverless controller? You're a serious fighting game player!"

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'Tekken 8' Producer Still Wants To Get Waffle House Added To The Games

While it may have started as a joke, Tekken 8 producer Katsuhiro Harada is actually interested in a Waffle House stage, and even reached out to the company.

Inverse

As Tekken 8 emergency patch runs back controversial Season 2 changes, series producer Katsuhiro Harada says "I personally do not think this backlash is at all unjustified"

Bandai Namco has promised another patch coming in mid-May

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'Tekken 8' Pro Player Knee Criticizes 'Selfish Update' for Season 2, Says Devs Are Catering to Rookies

"Tekken 8" Season 2 triggers outrage as pro player Knee rips devs for dumbing down gameplay, claiming it favors rookies over competitive veterans.

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After preserving the AI ghost of a fan's late brother, Tekken 8 boss says it might be a glimpse of the future where you don't "need an opponent who is human that has the exact same skill level"

Harada calls it "a glimpse of where fighting games are going"

GamesRadar

Tekken lead Katsuhiro Harada says he's spent decades "mentally preparing" for AI to overtake humans, but it's not happening: "If AI had really advanced, we wouldn't be pouring 10, 20, 30 billion Yen into making games"

He's not worried

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'Oh, don't worry about this': Tekken boss denies he's leaving Bandai Namco after saying he's open to work on LinkedIn, claims it's just because he wants to 'meet more people'

Yuh-huh…

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Yoshi-P and Hiroshi Takai jokingly clash as they react to Clive's lewd Tekken 8 outfit: "You OK'd this?"

"I might have been out of it at the time."

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Tekken 8 boss gives broken Tifa stans hope after Clive got to join the fighter instead: "It's not like we're only limited to one character from Final Fantasy"

Begin the Tifa summoning circle

Player One

'Tekken 8' Gets New Update To Combat Rage Quitters by Adding a Penalty

Bandai Namco is adding a way to address rage quitters in Tekken 8 with a new update that will hand out a penalty to offending players.

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As Tekken 8's microtransactions face renewed criticism after $5 stage DLC, one dev explains just how expensive it is to make a fighting game in 2024

"Tekken 8 on paper is an astonishingly risky bet"

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Tekken boss says iconic ruffian Heihachi has so many "illegitimate children" he has trouble remembering them

Heihachi, you dog

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'Tekken' Series Director Tried to Get KFC's Colonel Sanders as Guest Character but Was Rejected

Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada revealed that he tried to get KFC's Colonel Sanders as a guest character but was rejected.

PC Gamer

Tekken boss once tried to get KFC's Colonel Sanders to join the roster, but the chicken superpower wouldn't budge: 'They weren't very open to the idea'

That's finger-lickin' bad.

PC Gamer

Tekken 8 director spends months insisting 'Heihachi Mishima is completely dead' before giggling and unveiling him as the newest DLC character anyway

The granddaddy of Tekken couldn't stay away for too long

GamesRadar

Tekken 8 director Harada "didn't mean to lie" when he said awful dad Heihachi Mishima was really, truly dead

He sure was dropped into a volcano, though

Inverse

Tekken's Most Iconic Villain Is Making A Grand Return

The iconic villain Heihachi has been announced as the next downloadable combatant for the excellent Tekken 8, coming sometime this fall. The announcement was made with a trailer released during EVO 2024, the world’s biggest annual fighting game tournament.

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Fighting game legend Harada said he couldn't believe how dead Heihachi Mishima was, so Tekken 8 is resurrecting the big bad dad yet again

Guess who's back

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