{"id":1688680,"date":"2022-05-06T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.playstationlifestyle.net\/?p=866001"},"modified":"2022-05-06T23:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T03:02:28","slug":"tweet-claiming-dead-or-alive-7-was-canceled-could-be-fake","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/tweet-claiming-dead-or-alive-7-was-canceled-could-be-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet Claiming Dead or Alive 7 Was Canceled Could Be Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Was Dead or Alive 7<\/a><\/strong> canceled after being in development? That’s what a tweet from Hiroaki Morita, who says he is an employee of Koei Tecmo, has claimed. However, the tweet has since been removed, and it’s unclear whether the assertion is actually true or even if the user of the account is genuine.<\/p>\n

Why the tweet saying Dead or Alive 7 was cancelled is suspicious<\/h2>\n

The since-deleted tweet sent on May 3 from @Hiroaki_Morita2<\/a>, which has been archived here<\/a>,\u00a0says the following (as translated into English by Google):<\/p>\n

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After the release of DOA6, a smaller team was developing DOA7 and DOA6 minor changes, but it was decided to disband the team and cancel the project just before P \/ D Shimbori retired.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This wouldn’t be terribly surprising news and sounds like it could be true. The tweet refers to Yohei Shimbori, the director for Dead or Alive 5 and 6, who retired on March 31, 2022. The user claims to be “a programmer belonging to Koei Tecmo Games,” is “currently developing a new open world action game at Team NINJA,” and was previously an engineer for R Force Entertainment.<\/p>\n

However, the unverified Twitter account\u00a0has since gone private, was only recently created on April 2022,\u00a0uses stock logos and images of Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja, and has since changed the profile link from the Koei Tecmo website to a Japanese LinkedIn Account. There’s also another very similar account, also unverified and created on April 2022, for @Hiroaki_Morita_<\/a> that merely switches the Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja logos around and claims that he is a temporary employee of the company.<\/p>\n

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