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According to Japanese entertainment site ZAKZAK, Tomonobu Itagaki, famed creator of the Dead or Alive series, has been accused of sexually harassing a former Tecmo employee. The woman in question has sued him for 10 million yen.According to the report, this all started 3 years ago. Itagaki and the woman, who did PR for Tecmo, were in a taxi after a company karaoke party. The woman claims he asked her if she was married, then kissed her against her will and touched her inappropriately. She also claims Itagaki made frequent unwanted advances on her over the next few years, going so far as to sometimes lock the two of them in the office, visit her in hotels under the guise of company business, and such.
She approached Tecmo about it, but she claims they just told her to handle it herself. After being absent from work for a couple weeks due to mental and emotional anguish, she finally was able to get counseling from the company's personnel manager in July.
When Tecmo questioned Itagaki about all this, he admitted to kissing her, but said anything they did was with her consent. Seeing this as inappropriate behavior, Tecmo demoted Itagaki, but by title only, as he still performed the same duties and had the same actual position.
After being told by the company that Tecmo could not take her accusations of sexual harassment seriously, the woman quit and proceeded to sue Itagaki for 10 million yen. This was back in September.
So, though this happened awhile ago, it only became public news recently. It appears Tecmo is now ready to go to court with the plaintiff (who is now 31), so we'll see what happens from here.
As a note, Itagaki is married and has children.
Mr. Gainsborough fucked around with this message on 11-07-2006 at 06:17 PM.
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Check out the big brain on Maradon!!
Has Tecmo even made anything recently?
DoA4 and they're working on DoA Xtreme 2?
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There was much rejoicing when Maradon! said this:
Has Tecmo even made anything recently?
Only a small game like Dead or Alive 4. And various Ninja Gaidens.
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Check out the big brain on Alaan!
Only a small game like Dead or Alive 4. And various Ninja Gaidens.
The word was 'recently.'
So no.
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This one time, at Alaan camp:
Only a small game like Dead or Alive 4. And various Ninja Gaidens.
You can take the s off of that Gaiden you know. Since Black was merely an expanded Ninja Gaiden, not really a game of its own.
Which pisses me off, because Team Ninja is turning around and putting out Ninja Gaiden Sigma for the PS3 (possibly 360 too), which is merely ANOTHER remake of the same damn game, but again, with a ton more extra stuff. I understand that the game was damn near perfect when it was put on the X-box in the first place, but jeez, how about a brand new game Tecmo?
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Maradon! wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
DoA4 is only a game in the academic sense.
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Maradon! got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
DoA4 is only a game in the academic sense.
listen to yourself
They were too busy writing a physics engine for the chests on the girls. A physics engine to defy all others!
Now if only they'd spend a fraction of the time they spent on breast physics to make some hair physics, cause holy fuckingclippingthroughnecksshouldersandbacks batman. Skaw fucked around with this message on 11-08-2006 at 03:30 PM.
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We were all impressed when Skaw wrote:
Elastits.Now if only they'd spend a fraction of the time they spent on breast physics to make some hair physics, cause holy fuckingclippingthroughnecksshouldersandbacks batman.
Haha. Yeah. Over a decade of making 3d games and the DOA4 and Xtreme 2 hair behaves terribly.
