Tomonobu Itagaki spent the better part of two decades at Tecmo and Team Ninja, where his major projects included developing the Dead or Alive fighting game series and making sure you knew the competition (Tekken in particular) wasn’t any good. He left the developer several years ago and is now working on action game Devil’s Third at Valhalla Game Studios. In other words, he’s no longer in the fighting game business and therefore no longer trash talks the competition — and it’s exactly that which Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada misses.
Speaking with 1UP at the Tokyo Game Show last month (look for a 1UP cover story on Tekken soon), Harada brought up the subject of Itagaki and how he’s sad that the notoriously frank developer is no longer around to spice things up.
