9 h. ago ‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki

The driving force behind Team Ninja was a game development samurai who almost always won his battlesGame designer and ex-Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki died last week aged 58. He was famous for his sunglasses, long black hair, leather jackets – and his penchant for using colourful second world war metaphors to describe game development, marketing strategies and just about anything else. A pugnacious talent, he rocked the boat and made waves in almost every aspect of his life.Itagaki joined Japanese game developer Tecmo in 1992, as a young programmer, where he led the creation of the fighting game series Dead or Alive, the first instalment of which was released in 1996. He famously picked a long-running fight with Namco’s Tekken series, after that company’s marketing team ran an ad that he found disparaging. The resulting one-sided beef put his fighting franchise on the world stage in the early 2000s. After Dead or Alive 3, he turned his attentions to beach volleyball as a palette ...

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27 h. ago Ninja Gaiden 4 review: Brutal, speedy, bloody combat that's addictive fun on Xbox

Team Ninja is back after 13 years with the first mainline entry in the Ninja Gaiden series in ages and what we're faced with is a brutal rain-soaked Tokyo that's packed full of enemies to slay

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4 d. ago ‘It's about feeling like a super ninja’ – Ninja Gaiden 4 directors talk making 2025's coolest game

We speak to co-directors Masakazu Hirayama and Yuji Nakao about the challenge of reinventing the Ninja Gaiden series for a new era.

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1 week ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: This deal would never have flown without the force of nature that is Donald J. Trump

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr President. The gratitude of the families of the Israeli hostages who will soon be returned home was unconfined.

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2 w. ago Community come together to remember 'force of nature' schoolgirl in the most beautiful way

Family friends and strangers wanted to remember Honey French who died suddenly at her home in October 2024

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2 w. ago Brit teen Marcus Fakana jailed in Dubai over sex with girl dies in crash after release

Marcus Fakana, 19, has died in a car crash in London three months after being released from a Dubai prison - tributes said he had 'shown strength and courage' as he fought his case

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3 w. ago Danny Thompson dead: Legendary bass player & founder of Pentangle dies aged 86 as tributes pour in for ‘force of nature’

LEGENDARY bass player Danny Thompson has sadly passed away aged 86. Danny, a founding member of Brit band Pentangle, died "peacefully" at his home in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, on Tuesday. His glittering career saw him work alongside musical royalty, including Kate Bush, John Martyn and Roy Orbison. Danny famously played the bass guitar for Cliff Richard’s...

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