The latest installment of Tenchu will stealthily creep onto shelves in early 2009 according to the latest news from Ubisoft. The publisher released some new screens from the American version. One can only hope that they keep the “startled cat as lure” and “the debilitating nut punt” featured in the Japanese game. Hit the jump for the full gallery. Read the rest of this entry »
Tomonobu Itagaki, the head of Team Ninja and Gene Simmons’ Japanese doppleganger, has walked out on Tecmo but not before slapping the publisher with a lawsuit seeking damages for unpaid bonus compensation. Itatagaki goes so far as to call out the president of Tecmo, Yoshimi Yasuda, “for such unlawful acts as unreasonable and disingenuous statements made towards me.” The departure from Tecmo will take the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series out of Itaagaki’s hands. It marks a passing of an era as far as games are concerned. And, considering Itagaki’s obvious love for bouncing digital cans, it also marks the second blow against computer-generated breasts this morning.
