Dead or Alive creator opens brand new studio, multi-platform PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X game in development Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills • January 20, 2021 at 7:50 a.m. PST • Comments: 27 Tomonobu Itagaki is certainly one of the most interesting figures in video game development though he's been mostly laying low for the past few years. That's apparently changing, however. The Dead or Alive creator recently revealed he started up a new studio named Itagaki Games which already has a project in the works. "For the past four years, I’ve been teaching job to foster juniors, but now I feel like I want to make a game again and just established a company for that purpose," said Itagaki.