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Tecmo Responds To Itagaki's Resignation News
Jon Wilcox
04/06/2008
New titles are already underway at Team Ninja, as the Japanese publisher announces that Itagaki's issues should have remained a private matter...
Yesterday's news that Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki was resigning from his post on July 1st certainly came about like a bolt from the blue to the wider world, even if recent comments hinted at the move.
Itagaki's claims of unpaid bonuses have today been denied by Tecmo, in a statement released to IGN. The Japanese publisher reveals that the standard work bonuses on offer had already been paid to Itagaki, and that the unpaid bonus referred to in yesterday's statement was separate from them, in a deal agreed by the company's previous management.
Tecmo has also protested against Itagaki's public statement, commenting that the important matter should have been kept private between the two parties.
Elsewhere, the publisher announced that Team Ninja has projects underway (the Itagaki-less Dead or Alive 5 perhaps?), an exercise in reassuring fans that despite the loss of their outspoken boss, work at the studio continues regardless.
Itagaki's public statement comes in the same week that his Team Ninja swan-song, Ninja Gaiden II, goes on release across North America and Europe.
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