{"id":75524,"date":"2025-09-09T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2132765"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:38:43","slug":"tomonobu-itagaki-says-hes-established-new-studio-itagaki-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tomonobu-itagaki-says-hes-established-new-studio-itagaki-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomonobu Itagaki says he&#8217;s established new studio Itagaki Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tomonobu-itagaki-says-hes-established-new-studio-itagaki-games.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomonobu Itagaki has established a new video game studio, he&#8217;s said.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tomonobu.itagaki\/posts\/2739978682932899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, the famed Japanese developer said he recently founded Itagaki Games. This is not Tecmo, nor is it Valhalla, Itagaki said.<\/p>\n<p>Itagaki, of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden fame, revealed the news as part of a self-published Q&amp;A interview between himself and Bloomberg that didn&#8217;t make the cut for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2021-01-06\/xbox-the-oral-history-of-an-american-video-game-empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a January article on the original Xbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-18-tomonobu-itagaki-says-hes-established-new-studio-itagaki-games\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-18-tomonobu-itagaki-says-hes-established-new-studio-itagaki-games\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomonobu Itagaki has established a new video game studio, he&#8217;s said. In a post on Facebook, the famed Japanese developer said he recently founded Itagaki Games. This is not Tecmo, nor is it Valhalla, Itagaki said. Itagaki, of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden fame, revealed the news as part of a self-published Q&amp;A interview between himself and Bloomberg that didn&#8217;t make the cut for a January article on the original Xbox. 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