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Matchman is the first project to come from a new collaboration between Lexicon Entertainment and Chinese dev house TF-H Co LTD, with “a number of new IP” planned throughout the two-year agreement for DS, Wii and PS3.

The game “is a side scrolling shooter involving extraordinary graphics, manipulation and creative features. The graphic style is consisted by black and white line drawing, and the script is based on a combination of some classical fairytales such as Grimm’s and Anderson’s fairytales,” says the official blurb.

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Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki is leaving Tecmo and has filed a lawsuit against the company for “unpaid completion bonuses” over Dead or Alive 4.

Itagaki’s translator contacted Kotaku yesterday, telling them: “At approximately 2:30 PM Japan Standard Time today, June 3rd 2008, an official statement from Tomonobu Itagaki was sent by fax to major Japanese news outlets.”

In the official statement, Itagaki said: “I, Tomonobu Itagaki, hereby announce that on the 14th of May 2008 I filed a complaint in the Tokyo District Court against Tecmo Co., Ltd. for unpaid completion bonuses, and against the President of Tecmo, Yoshimi Yasuda, for such unlawful acts as unreasonable and disingenuous statements made towards me, claiming damages in total of 148 million yen. I also announce that this complaint was delivered to the defendants on May 22nd of the same year.

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