Ninja Gaiden II’s June 3 release date was announced earlier today during Microsoft’s keynote address at the Game Developers Conference, but Tomonobu Itagaki, the game’s creative director and Team Ninja leader, also gave us a chance to see the title in action. His translator played the game for a while, and revealed a major features that hadn’t previously been discussed.
But never in our wildest dreams did we expect a Ninja Gaiden II demo, which is exactly what is headed down the GDC XBLM pipeline.
According to a GDC content banner that appears on the XBLM, it makes mention that a downloadable Ninja Gaiden II demo will be "Coming Soon". The item is not clickable just yet, so no demo goodness for us, but we have a feeling that Thursday will bring bloody ninja fun for fanboys across the globe.
- At Microsoft's Keynote held during GDC 2008, Tomonobu Itagaki showed a new level from Ninja Gaiden 2. The "GDC Special Edition" demo gave us a glimpse at the Temple of Sacrifice and revealed an exciting new feature for Ninja Gaiden 2.
At Microsoft's GDC 2008 keynote address, Tomonobu Itagaki just announced that Ninja Gaiden 2 will be released in North America on June 3, with a worldwide release coming in early June.
With Ninja Gaiden 2 being the next big action game on the horizon, it's media is now flowing a little more freely. This interview with the series creator and Team Ninja lead Tomonobu Itagaki covers all the basics of the new entry in the series, and he even finds time to talk a bit about the games difficulty levels.
The next release, curiously titled Ninja Gaiden II—despite its many variations since 1988. In fact, it’s being billed as an 360 exclusive, with Tecmo’s Team Ninja developing it, while Microsoft takes up the publishing duties. You have to figure that, for Microsoft to get behind the game in such a direct way, the company is expecting big things from this new sequel.
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