DoA Central forum member Dahlsim has scored an interview with Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki during the latter's appearance at this year's Championship Gaming Series. Itagaki and TECMO Japan reps were at CGS as special guests during the Finals.

In the interview, Itagaki dropped a few hints of what could be in Dead or Alive 5. It seems Itagaki has been leaning towards de-emphasizing the game's tag mode, but will now be reconsidering how much of a presence tag mode will have in Dead or Alive 5.

The de-emphasis seems particularly interesting in light of Itagaki's revelation that Dead of Alive was originally envisioned as more of a tag game than a singles fighter.

Itagaki also expressed interest in Dahlsim's suggestion of adding a feature to the Team Battle mode that would let multiple players participate. If this pushes through, it should help add to the game's community aspect. For the full interview, click on the Read link below.

The last thing we heard about the movie port of Team Ninja's fighting game, Dead or Alive, was about that incident where somebody uploaded the movie. Now, The Weinstein Company's website has indicated the release date.

Yes, for North America. Well, get ready to meet Dead or Alive's femme fatales: Tina Armstrong, Christie Allen, Kasumi, Ayane, and Helena Douglas. Dead or Alive the game is known for flaunting certain parts of the female anatomy; the film looks like it practiced a bit of control in that department. Anyway, whether it'll be a hit or a flop remains to be seen.

There are some differences in the film version that fans will surely spot, but then... well, you be the judge of that. Dead or Alive is set for release on the big screen on June 22.

If you're looking for one more reason as to why you should pack your belongings and migrate to Japan, well we do have one more that might help. That would be the fact that Japan is one of the few countries who love their anime and video game characters so much, that these characters end up immortalized on either postage stamps or credit cards.

So, when Tecmo's well-known Dead or Alive game franchise turned 10 years old, they did the most obvious thing and decided to commemorate the event by plastering three of the most popular characters in the game onto an object which you would most likely closely guard and care for. After all, it wouldn't be pretty if you lost your best picture of Kasumi AND ended up with credit card charges you didn't make.

On top of being the proud owner of one of these cards, though, they're also throwing in special DOA 10th Anniversary original trading cards into the deal. Each credit card owner will be given one trading card which belongs in a set of nine. These nine cards also have parts of a larger image printed on the back, so if you somehow manage to collect all nine designs and put them together, you're then rewarded with an A4-sized piece of DOA artwork.

Now whether this is something that is worth extending your credit line for, is completely up to you.

We said it would hit US shores in a box, but we were wrong. Dead wrong. Some intrepid member of the online community uploaded the entire Dead or Alive film onto Google Video, where sites like ours can partake of the cheese that is Corey Yuen's bouncy, busty epic.

In any case, you can either thank or throttle Xch4ng3 for putting this up. Needless to say, we don't know why he did, much less why he used the text below as a caption, but we're definitely here to let you know about it. Get to watching before it gets taken down.

There's really no stopping a creative mind for spewing forth ideas. Especially if it's for a project really close to his heart. Dead or Alive 4's creator, Tomonobu Itagaki, has revealed to fans at the 10th Anniversary Festa in Japan his plans for Dead or Alive 5. And it's barely been a year since the DOA4 hit store shelves!

While no specific details have been mentioned, there's almost no doubt that the next installment would also be ported for the Xbox 360. After all, the franchise has been one of the more consistent titles for the console. Now that we've got the heads up on this, just stay tuned for further developments. We'll be sure to keep you posted.