Rumor: Team Ninja following Itagaki out
by JC Fletcher 
{ Jun 16th 2008 at 5:00PM }
Last week, Tomonobu Itagaki made a characteristically high-profile, loud exit from Tecmo, suing the company for unpaid bonus income on his way out. According to a rumor posted by 1UP's James Mielke, Itagaki isn't the only one vanishing -- several of his translucent orange Shadow Clones (or other Team Ninja employees -- the details are scarce!) are headed out as well. According to Mielke, "as many as three dozen or more" Team Ninja staffers are walking out of Tecmo, and serving the company with their own class-action lawsuit regarding unpaid bonuses. On top of that, Tecmo may have broken the law by failing to report the lawsuits to their shareholders.
Tecmo did say that Team Ninja would be intact and working on new games -- they just didn't say who they'd be making those games for. We weren't really expecting another Ninja Gaiden DS game anyway (since the first one bombed in Japan), but now we can really let go of the possibility.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Haohmaru @ Jun 16th 2008 7:50PM
It's a shame NG:DS sold so poorly. It's easily in my DS top five.
BlackDS @ Jun 16th 2008 10:26PM
Tecmo should have paid the bonuses.
You shouldn't offer bonuses if you don't intend to pay them.
Peace.