{"id":24640,"date":"2023-12-20T12:31:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T03:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=24640"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:20:10","slug":"20231220-24640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231220-24640\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead or Alive director involved in Tekken 8 development\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yohei Shimbori, known as the director of Koei Tecmo\u2019s Dead or Alive series, revealed that he is currently affiliated with Bandai Namco Studios and participating in the development of <strong>Tekken 8<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shimbori had been involved with the Dead or Alive and Dead or Alive Xtreme series for 16 years as a producer and director. On March 31, 2021, he announced his departure from Koei Tecmo, which sparked the public\u2019s interest in his future activities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m currently helping with the development of Tekken 8. I can&#39;t talk about the details, but I hope to be able to talk about it someday. I hope everyone enjoys our new game.<\/p>&mdash; \u3057\u3093\u307c\u308a (@shimbori_x) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shimbori_x\/status\/1736404160931865047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After leaving Koei Tecmo, Shimbori remained active on social media, where he assured followers that he was \u201calive\u201d and&nbsp;focusing on work in his new position. After keeping the details under wraps for a long time, he finally announced on December 18 that he had been \u201cgiven the ok from the company\u201d to reveal that he is currently affiliated with Bandai Namco Studios, specifically Tekken 8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shimbori\u2019s position is likely one that allows him to make use of the know-how and experience gained from working on the Dead or Alive series, but he does not specify his exact role and describes his involvement in Tekken 8 as \u201csupporting development in various ways\u201d (in his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shimbori_x\/status\/1736403915590275389?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japanese post<\/a>). &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231218-276537-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231218-276537-001.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231218-276537-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231218-276537-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231218-276537-001-600x338.jpg 600w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Yohei Shimbori during the Dead or Alive 6 official livestream<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tekken 8 is scheduled to be released on January 26 for the PC (Steam), PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. A PS5 demo is currently available, and the PC and Xbox Series X| demos will launch on December 21.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><br><br><br><br><em>Written by. Amber V based on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20231218-276537\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese ar<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20231213-275877\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">t<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20231220-276692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">icle<\/a>&nbsp;(original article\u2019s publication date: 2023-12-18 15:38<\/em>&nbsp;<em>JST)<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yohei Shimbori, known as the director of Koei Tecmo\u2019s Dead or Alive series, revealed that he is currently  participating in the development of Tekken 8.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":24645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-24640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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