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While more recent titles from Team NINJA such as: the anticipated Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty & critically acclaimed Nioh have not seen a lot of environment gameplay it has always been at the heart of Dead or Alive since the 90s and now TEKKEN 8 is borrowing various elements from its long-term rival.

Harada has also made sure to mention early on that this mechanic is not just for visual flair but will expand the stages as well and that environments will also play a vital role in the gameplay itself like DOA always has. What other fighters can you mention that have gone out of their way to go the extra mile with visual design and scale of a level?

This sort of inspiration makes the community wonder if we will see a special guest Dead or Alive character such as Kasumi or Ryu Hayabusa someday. Fans of both series have wanted to see some type of collaboration for years and with announcements like this, we could be edging closer to that; not to say it...

If you haven't already, be sure to take a look at the Dead or Alive 6 ++ Beta for Steam players, and if you have played before, update your game with the first update for completely new changes. There have been many discoveries made already by casuals and professionals alike, but this controversial take on a controversial game continues to be met with a mixed reception as it continues its beta phase. You are completely free to have your opinion, but please be respectful of one another's work and inspire @Rev_an with constructive criticism and feedback.

Anyone that liked Dead or Alive: Dimensions is in for a real treat as moves from the game continue to break into the mold of Dead or Alive 6. To me this is one of the more interesting components of Dead or Alive 6 ++. To give us elements we haven't experienced with the game before.


And this one might interest players like...

Through the Insignia client, FSD's Matt Ponton was the first person on the planet to SS the refreshed Dead or Alive 2: Ultimate leaderboard via XBOX Live on the original XBOX. Some players are making strides to beat his rank, but it only took this professional player less than two days to get the coveted SS title. Matt Ponton is no joke when it comes to the older titles of DOA and him and Rikuto are among the most dangerous men in DOA2 and DOA3 respectively.


Can you compete with his score? Watch his performance in the VOD provided and follow Ponton at Twitch for more great content. Learn more about setting up your original XBOX to LIVE at our official Insignia newspost and also read and...

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The Final, The Prequel, The Vanilla & The Prototype Timelines Now Dubbed The New 56.



Fourteen Characters X Four Timelines = 56!

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Final 2021/Tengu Edition, The Final Rehash, Loving Twice, Five By Five, Twenty Eight.

One Zero, Wishful Mags, Code...

Some breaking news has been released today during Team NINJA's keynote at the South Korea G-Star conference by Fumihiko Yasuda that Dead or Alive and NINJA Gaiden reboots will be the future of the company after the release of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty & Rise of Ronin. The final image presented in the breaking story has been translated by key individuals in our community including @WAZAAAAA and @Matt Ponton respectively:

Team NINJA's Future - Reboot of Popular Series - Images of NINJA Gaiden & Dead or Alive ​

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There is a lot of information in this story, and we will break all of it down here at Free Step Dodge, but this looks like extremely positive evidence of a future and now is probably not...

The Insignia client for the original XBOX released today, and because of this, Matt Ponton was able to stream the first Dead or Alive 2: Ultimate online matches to happen on the original XBOX LIVE in almost thirteen years. Ponton selected Jann Lee to fight Echo's Ayane in a yellow bar online match, and surprisingly, this faceoff seemed smooth for a yellow bar quality bout.

Please stay tuned for more quality streaming from Matt Ponton. Give him a follow at Twitch as he is streaming the game at its highest possible quality and he's also very polite and helpful for players trying to setup their consoles to the service. Remember you must first get an invite by signing up at Insignia's site. There are further instructions at their official website to help you on your quest back to this incredible Team NINJA experience.

Ponton plans on streaming more later today and/or...

Segment Next recently released a very informative and promising article featuring head of Team NINJA president Fumihiko Yasuda that entails financial objectives of the company moving forward after the release of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty next year. Before I even get started with this one, I would just like to state my opinion: Fumihiko Yasuda is the strongest and most interesting president Team NINJA has had since Tomonobu Itagaki. I love almost everything that comes out of this guy's mouth, and he's shown he cares about his player base maybe even more than Itagaki himself.

Koei Tecmo has also made massive improvements to how they conduct themselves, to how they treat their players and are working harder at giving them what they want. They are worth more money than they ever have been, they've...

Long-time professional DOA content creator, Emery Reigns is in full support of upgrading your purchased copy of Dead or Alive 6 to the fan-made and community driven take of Dead or Alive 6 ++. The mod is incredibly easy to install, but if you have a visual preference of learning check out his help video to get yourself upgraded!


This is a short update for everyone, but it's great to see endorsements coming out from big names of the community, and even if DOA6++ is not your cup of tea; if you've held onto DOA6 for this long you might as well peruse the patch notes and give it a shot. Update your game to Public Beta 2022.10.29 today!

Master NINJA Ryu is an Italian DOA player that organizes DOA tournaments and also specializes in other Team NINJA games such as the NINJA Gaiden franchise and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin; Team NINJA's epic take on the classic Final Fantasy title. When Master NINJA Ryu plays a Team NINJA game, he takes aim at it and gives the game his full attention as proven with his recent achievement: being the first to defeat Team NINJA's take on Final Fantasy super boss - Gilgamesh without taking any damage at all.


This Final Fantasy title has the magic of Square and the gameplay polish of Team NINJA. DOA purists such as Destruction Bomb have gone as far to say that there are some DOA gameplay incorporations to Origin, and it shows that Team NINJA will always have a signature...

If you're interested in playing an alternative Dead or Alive 6 on PC, you might enjoy trying out the beta for Dead or Alive 6 ++ a community project that puts the game mechanics in the hands of the fighters. This feels a lot like a DOA remix including: DOA4 stances, DOAD moves, insane damage buffs, the removal of the meter and all kinds of other possibilities that were never possible before. So far it has received strong support from Zakkurye (who already wants to do tournaments for it) and Emery Reigns is also giving DOA6 ++ some attention highlighting character changes on live stream.


The latest build for DOA6 ++ is the Public Beta 2022.10.29 and now is the most important time to update and play for community feedback purposes so that players have the best...

'Kumite in Tennesse 2022' felt like a classic Dead or Alive offline tournament where the quality of matches stood out beyond anything else, but the talent, improvement of existing talent, standout new players and a grand finale that tells a story between two of the best fighters to ever play the game intensified everything. Viewership on Twitch was reassuring to people that thought DOA was completely dead in the water, engagement was certainly there in the chat and the general consensus of this tournament from the community seemed to be extremely positive. This is a great change in comparison to performances and viewership of DOA6 last year and will hopefully remain a constant as we move forward with 'Frosty Faustings' and other tournaments next year.


For a while now there has been some hype circulating over what Sub...

The original Dead or Alive: Ultimate is returning to XBOX LIVE on your original XBOX console through the free Insignia service releasing November 15th of 2022. This service will host 20 original XBOX games online at launch including mega hits such as Conker Live & Reloaded & Crimson Skies. The Insignia service is currently invitation only and you can register your email for a chance to join. We received our invitation within two days of requesting.

Insignia will always be free, and as long as your system has the current update and you are given an invitation from Insignia, it should be very easy to set yourself up to play DOAU again online on your original XBOX. Your ranking and leaderboard scores will be refreshed so the reboot of both games online can be seen as a clean slate and an equal playing field for the community.

If your XBOX system is modded you will be able to use Insignia, and there are convenient...

After KIT 2022 Dead or Alive 6 will return to the offline scene next year at Frosty Faustings XV coming off another long hiatus. Lombard, Illinois will be the fighting grounds of this tournament and the dates to save for this event will be February 3rd-4th of 2023. You will need to purchase a Spectator Pass to compete in this tournament and you will have until mid-January to do so.

There are not a lot of DOA events at this point in time, so hopefully the community sees it as something special and will register. If enough players register that will increase the amount of stream time our game will get at professional level, and this is of course always important.

Here is the official Frosty Faustings XV registration link (once again you will only need the Spectator Pass as this is a side tournament), and the official page for...

Notice for the readers: this news story does not confirm Dead or Alive 7 or a new iteration of Dead or Alive 6. The story does however imply great possibility for a future.

Video Games Chronicle's latest interview with Team NINJA studios president Fumihiko Yasuda was extremely revealing about the future for existing IPs, and while he was there primarily to do a collaborative interview with Bloodborne producer Maasaki Yamagiwa, he went out of his way to allude heavily in his dialogue that he cares about existing franchises and wants to do something when the timing is right like any other project they do at Team NINJA.

President Yasuda's delivery in this interview was well-thought, well-spoken, enjoyable to read, transparent and he has the best composure for press interviews we have seen from Team NINJA in over a decade. He controlled...

Awesmic's storytelling ability and lore videos for the Dead or Alive franchise have been a refreshing take on series content and have kept things engaging for players waiting patiently for the possibility of a new game or updated DOA6. One of his more recent videos was all about the incredible professional wrestler, Bass Armstrong, and while some overlook his character; Bass is one of the more complex fighters on the DOA roster. The relationship between father and daughter is something that's often overlooked in games, and the story between Bass & Tina tells it realistically.


To no surprise, Matt Ponton contributed to this story, and when you take a great storyteller like Awesmic and combine it with Ponton's knowledge on the character - it's going to be a complete take. The story of Bass couldn't have been told any better. Though it would be nice to know who won between Bass and Brad Wong in the Dead or Alive 4...

Team NINJA has made some pretty big announcements concerning their latest games at this year's Tokyo Game Show. As expected, Dead or Alive 7 was not one of the games shown in the four plus hours of stream time. With that being said, the new Team NINJA games lead by Fumihiko Yasuda look very good and could serve as masterful time-burners for the community while we wait for another fighter. If another fighter even happens.

The first of the two new Team NINJA IPs shown is Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (announced initially at E3) and the game might be just another Nioh for some, but it's coming to Game Pass and XBOX, a platform that has yet to get a title like Nioh from Team NINJA. They released a surprise demo for the game on Playstation 5 & XBOX Series S|X and this will be available for around a week, which makes this a great time to give your feedback on Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty to Team NINJA...

Sadly, Tad 'T-Boy' Meng, a well-known member of our Dead or Alive community has passed away. The Texas fighter has befriended many DOA players, dating back to the XBOX 360 era of Dead or Alive 4. T-Boy was known for playing the wild-card, Ein and was always diligent and ready to help out other players so they could grow as fighters and most importantly as friends.

@Project Bokuho made the announcement on the competitive Facebook page and said in his post:

T-Boy and I have been best pals since the Absolute Battle/D.I.D. days. To everyone in this group, I ask that you please leave him and his family in your prayers

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Team NINJA community manager, @MASTER, also had some uplifting things to say about T-Boy:

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Hoodless recently made an announcement via his Twitter that he would be doing a Dead or Alive 5: Last Round special on Playstation for the month of July which gives you 4 weeks of new DOA5 tournament content to enjoy that starts on Independence Day. These tournaments are indeed online, but they will be worth your time as a competitor for the free entry and prize pot possibility. Please take a look at the available dates and register to the events that you can participate in.

As a quick reference the tournament dates this month are:

- July 4th (Independence Day) (Playstation)...

Team NINJA makes a plethora of great different titles that are outside of the DOA fandom, and we are going to begin showcasing their different works such as Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, NINJA Gaiden, Nioh & Stranger of Paradise on the home page. Later on, this month there will be additional forums added to our subcategories which will include:

- Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
- Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise
- Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation

With three additional subforums, and Team NINJA news of every title, we not only intend to inform you on everything Team NINJA is doing, but we also want to attract players from these communities to the Dead or Alive series. The Dead or Alive series will always be the absolute main focal point at Free Step Dodge - but we want to also highlight the often times underrated Team NINJA. We truly believe at FSD that Team NINJA makes some of the best games of all time, and I think a good...

Yes - a new stunning and impressionable IP took precedence over a new Dead or Alive or a new Ninja Gaiden from Team NINJA. While it could be viewed as peculiar to some, KOEI TECMO wasn't even planning to be at the show at all, so it was nice to see something from the team ahead of TGS. Plus, Phil Spencer brought up the importance of Japanese development being a part of their systems, and that they missed working with Team NINJA like they did in the past.

Team NINJA's last game was Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin and it was considered a great action-rpg for the fans of Final Fantasy I. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is also being categorized as an action-rpg. We don't know a lot about the game yet, but it's being headed by Fumihiko Yasuda, and he has in some capacity worked on every franchise Team NINJA has at their disposal and is most famous for working on Nioh. To make...

Dead or Alive 6 has been coming back into our feeds with offline & online tournaments for your viewing and studious pleasure, but it's also been paying off to compete online, maybe even more so than offline - which might come as a bit of a shock for regular offline competitors. Because of the extremely generous and loyal DOA community, DOA6 accrued 1,039 USD for the month of May between the Emery Reigns Throw-Down & Hoodless Weekly. We are expecting higher numbers in future months because: interest has increased for Dead or Alive 6, people are anticipating more Emery Reigns Throw-Down events, more prominent players in the community are contemplating weekly tournaments of their own, and the consistency of Hoodless Weekly remains as constant as it does necessary.


Emery Reigns has been the biggest draw in the DOA community. He knows how to promote his material, he put the time into the community to deserve the...