68 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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2 d. ago Two dead at Melbourne beach as wild wind batters state, while parts of Sydney hit by record

Sydney’s Observatory Hill peaks at 37C on Wednesday – below the 39C forecast – as the mercury in other parts of the city neared 40CFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo men have died after being pulled from the water at a Victorian beach amid wild weather in the state.On Wednesday evening, Victoria police confirmed two men were found unresponsive in the water at Frankston Beach, on the Mornington Peninsula, just after 5pm. The men, who are yet to be identified, could not be revived. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Tragedy as critically endangered sea creature washes up again dead after Scots beach rescue

The native Scottish fish, which resembles a stingray, can grow up to 2.8m long and they usually stay at around 100m deep in the ocean.

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8 d. ago Mystery as 26 killer whales wash up dead on beach and scientists don’t know why

It is believed to be the third known stranding of type D orcas worldwide

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2 w. ago California State University Long Beach student, 22, is found dead and now his roommate is charged with murder

A second roommate was also stabbed but was transported to a hospital in stable condition

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2 w. ago 'Woman with the German keys' identified 21 years after being found dead on beach

The body of German national Eva Maria Pommer was known only as 'the woman with the German keys' for nearly 21 years after she was found on a Dutch beach in 2004

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3 w. ago Man, 80, found dead on rocks along popular UK beach after huge rescue operation

The body of an 80-year-old man has been recovered from Sidmouth beach in Devon after he was seen having got into difficulty on rocks leading to an emergency service operation

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4 w. ago Missing Brit, 23, who vanished from Bali beach found dead as pals slam rescuers

The body of Harrison Edward Nada-Kantounas, 23, was found today following a search that was launched with pals and Indonesian officials after he vanished on September 17

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