(Time Extension) Team Ninja Founder & Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki Has Passed Away

[Le Reposteur]

The news was shared on the developer's Facebook page.

Tomonobu Itagaki, the founder of Team Ninja and a legendary Japanese game developer behind titles like Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden (2004), has passed away.

The news was shared in a posthumous post from the creator, which was to be published in the event of his death, with his close friend, the co-founder and creative director of Bitsummit, James Mielke, confirming his passing on both Bluesky and Instagram.

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