What's It Like To Lose Your Lead Ninja?  Until 2008, the head
ninja of Team Ninja (not pictured) was Dead or Alive creator
Tomonobu Itagaki. Then he left and filed a lawsuit over unpaid
wages. More Tecmo developers left, too. What's that like for the
other ninjas?  "I've been with Team Ninja ever since I graduated
from college, so everything I know about the game business I
learned from Team Ninja," current Team Ninja honcho Yosuke
Hayashi told Famitsu (via 1Up). "Seeing the people who taught me
the ropes leave was something I never imagined happening, and to
be honest, I felt like I had no idea where to go next. But later
I realized that just because they had their reasons and beliefs
that led them to leave, I didn't have to follow them along."
Hayashi realized that this was a chance for to reexamine how
Team Ninja makes games. He acknowledges that fans were worried
"as they had a right to be", but the team buckled down and
focused on making games.   Compared to the Team Ninja led by
Itagaki, Hayashi points