Devil’s Third to expand in scope
Posted onJuly 7, 2012
Shortly after news hit of Tomonobu Itagaki retrieving the rights to Devil’s Third, Valhalla’s studio boss Satoshi Kanematsu stated that the game is aimed at “a wide range of digital devices” as well as consoles and PC. Kanematsu hopes to expand Devil’s Third as franchise through other media, like manga, animation and film. Ambitious aspirations, [...]
Devil’s Third back in Itagaki’s hands
Posted onJuly 5, 2012
Tomonobu Itagaki — the former Dead or Alive creator who reimagined the Ninja Gaiden franchise — has retrieved the rights to his current project, Devil’s Third, from THQ after it was dropped from the publisher’s development lineup. The good news is that THQ is doing right by Itagaki and returning the rights and allowing the [...]
THQ pushes back South Park RPG, dumps Devil’s Third
Posted onMay 16, 2012
Amid postulations that the company is in serious financial troubles, THQ announced during its annual investor call scheduling changes to two of its more notable upcoming releases, one being dropped completely. The Obsidian-developed South Park: The Stick of Truth RPG has been pushed back into the last quarter of its current fiscal year, which ends [...]
Itagaki — Devil’s Third budget nearly equal to all previous games combined
Posted onFebruary 28, 2012
Devil’s Third – remember that name? It’s the third-person action title in development at Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki’s Valhalla Games at the moment. It’s a big project, but, as we’ve learned in recent weeks, big projects are a bit of a gamble for the financially unstable THQ right now, who is publishing the project. That hasn’t [...]
Devil’s Third reveal in 2012
Posted onSeptember 19, 2011
Ninja Gaiden man Tomonobu Itagaki’s upcoming THQ project, Devil’s Third, will come out of hiding next year, the creator told Japanese press at the Tokyo Game Show last week. Absent from the show due to a PR strategy surrounding the game’s release schedule, the “epic masterpiece” is at the moment 20-30 percent complete and progressing [...]
Devil’s Third still a long ways off
Posted onJune 9, 2011
Tomonobu Itagaki, famed creator of the Dead or Alive series and well-known for his Ninja Gaiden games, has revealed that his next title is still early in development. That title is Devil’s Third, which was more or less exactly a year ago. Itagaki tells Japanese mag Famitsu that the game is currently only 30% complete, [...]
Devil’s Third developed with “yet unknown hardware” in mind
Posted onSeptember 21, 2010While the inclusion of 3D is yet uncertain, Tomonobu Itagaki’s Devil’s Third is a game built on future-proof tech. Speaking in an interview at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, the now-Valhalla man said the game is being developed in a way “so that it can be brought to as yet unknown hardware as well. Specifically, [...]
3D glasses a downer, Itagaki says, but Devil’s Third may support the tech
Posted onSeptember 20, 2010Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive man Tomonobu Itagaki’s Valhalla Game Studios’ firstborn, Devil’s Third, may make use of an extra dimension, the creator said at the Tokyo Game Show last week. “It’s not a game that’s built around [3D],” he told Impress Watch (via), “but I’d like to at least offer it as an [...]
Devil’s Third before April 2013
Posted onAugust 9, 2010Ninja Gaiden man Tomonobu Itagaki’s latest, Devil’s Third, is long ways off. So far even that the game’s early announcement this June is a bit of a head scratcher; according to publisher THQ’s first quarter fiscal 2011 results, released today, the title is scheduled for fiscal year 2013, which means its launch date could fall [...]
Itagaki: Devil’s Third well balanced, is ‘the best game ever’
Posted onAugust 3, 2010Tomonobu Itagaki’s latest, Devil’s Third, will be “the best game ever.” That’s according to the designer himself who’s said the game will be much more balanced and accessible than his previous offerings. Unlike Dead or Alive 4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 — the first of which had a nearly-impossible-to-beat end boss (for which he apologizes) [...]
