The next bloody and ultimately gory entry to Tecmo Koei’s brutally difficult action series has been fully revealed at E3 2011, and an enormous collection of crimson-smattered screenshots and a gigantic batch of gameplay videos have been unleashed to show off the new Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 slasher, Ninja Gaiden 3.

It’s not for the faint of heart, but if you want to know basically everything you need to about Ninja Gaiden 3, you’ve come to the right place:

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The next instalment of the intense, gory and ninja assassin-themed Ninja Gaiden series of action games, Ninja Gaiden 3, has recently been confirmed to be releasing next year, while a teaser trailer accompanying the reveal shows a ruthless Ryu stabbing and gutting us, the audience, in first-person.

From the teaser trailer blurb:

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Tecmo Koei’s next entry to the Dead or Alive franchise is all set to appear on Nintendo’s next handheld, the 3DS, and it’s recently been announced that this new fighting game will be called Dead or Alive: Dimensions.

Get it? Because the 3DS does… the whole… stereoscopic 3D thing? Great.

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I don’t quite know what to make of this latest trailer for Tecmo Koei Games’ Quantum Theory, a game many have dubbed the ‘Japanese Gears of War.’

It shows some pretty excellent CG cutscenes with an… interesting editing technique, with cuts of in-game footage thrown in here and there in-between the high quality cinematics, which ends up being quite jarring (the game doesn’t look too hot, visually).

Overall, an… unusual sort of trailer for a game that is pretty straight-forward (mechanically speaking) what with its cover-based shooting gameplay. Story-wise though, it looks anything but straight-forward…

Try to dissect the E3 2010 trailer for Quantum Theory below:

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The Koei Tecmo Holdings company has posted a third quarter loss of ¥1.84 billion ($20.4 million), and has as a result adjusted its projected year-end profit forecast from ¥7.4 billion ($81.9 million) to ¥200 million ($2.2 million).

The publisher blamed its poor quarterly results on a soft Wii market, weak overseas sales and the unfortunate decisions to postpone titles such as Team Tachyon’s Quantum Theory, and Omega Force’s RPG, Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll RPG.

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The next third-person action shooter from Tecmo Koei, Quantum Theory, has had a UK release date slapped on it, and everything looks set for a late March 26th outing for what everyone has named ‘the Japanese Gears of War.’

From the looks of the trailer and the screenshots below, is that necessarily a bad thing? Quantum Theory looks absolutely crazy!

You can get a little better acquainted with Quantum Theory after flipping through a dozen screenshots, and watching the latest action-packed in-game-footage-featuring trailer, below:

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