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New Interview with Tomonobu Itagaki

Here's a new interview with Tomonobu Itagaki, courtesy of 1UP from E3 2009: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?pager.offset=0&cId=3174656 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess where he's headed....

PRE E3 MEGATON! TOMONOBU ITAGAKI RETURNS!

Legendary game producer Tomonobu Itagaki, famous for the Ninja Gaiden series of games on the Xbox platform, returns to gaming with a new team---focused on a new game for the Xbox 360 platform! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=362921 http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3174393 1UP: Can you tell me who else from Team NINJA is in your new company now? HM: Well, I can give you a list, but it's probably faster to just tell you that we got all of the leads and directors and such. 1UP: All of them? HM: Well, you see Okamoto, the producer here, and Ehara and me, the directors. We got Maeda and Sasaki, the engineering leads. These guys are amazing, they put together a brand new game engine in less than a year. 1UP: Does that mean you're coming up with a brand new title? KE: That's right. That's why we made an entirely new company. HM: We also got Motosa, the animation lead. He worked with me to create the high quality and quantity of animations in Dead or Alive and Nin...