Dead or Alive 25th Anniversary

Dead or Alive 25 is a celebration event of the fighting video game series Dead or Alive. This event was produced by Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja. The event announcement is in February, and at E3 2022.

Things part of the event

 * Dead or Alive 7, the newest entry of the series, taking place 5 months after the events of Dead or Alive, including a pre order bundle of outfits, and a special mode that can be unlocked in the vanilla game, but is extremely hard. It also has a deluxe edition that has all three launch DLCs, and exclusive outfits for every character, and a 25th Anniversary pack, that includes wallpapers, a Kasumi and Ayane themed hologram, a Dead or Alive console decal to put on your gaming console/PC, Dead or Alive NFTs, two 25th Anniversary costumes for each character, and if your lucky enough, a ticket to the Dead or Alive 25 convention, held in Japan and another show in the U.S.


 * Dead or Alive 6 Ultimate, adding features that were taken out of the original game, more outfits, and characters who were DLC in the original game free.


 * Dead or Alive 1: Last Round. Combining the Sega Saturn and Playstation versions of the original game.


 * Dead or Alive 3: Ultimate. Adding more costumes, arenas, more unlockables, and Eliot and Tengu as unlockable characters.


 * Dead or Alive 4: Ultimate. Adding more costumes, arenas, more unlockables, and more.


 * The Dead or Alive 25 convention. The convention takes place in Japan, and in the U.S.


 * Dead or Alive: Infinite, a complete reboot of the series that reboots the events from Dead or Alive 1 to Dead or Alive 3. The game was released November 26, 2022.

Anniversary announcement
The announcement would take place on February 19, 2022. The announcement would get alot of good reception from fans, as they were very exited for what the event had to offer. The announcement also stated that more would be announced at E3 2022.

At E3, more was announced of the event, including trailers for Dead or Alive 7, Dead or Alive 6 Ultimate, and Dead or Alive 3 Ultimate.

Dead or Alive 1: Last Round would be announced 2 months later.

Dead or Alive 7
Dead or Alive 7 (Japanese: デッドオアアライブ7 Hepburn: Deddo oa Araibu 7) is a fighting video game developed by Team Ninja and published by Koei Tecmo and is the seventh main installment in the Dead or Alive franchise and is for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X on November 28, 2022. The game takes place 5 months after the events of Dead or Alive 6, and revolves around Kasumi, Ayane, Hayate, Helena, and NiCO.

Plot
The story takes place after NiCO's escape and her stating that she will revive all those who were dead. Helena has been trying to hunt down NiCO with the help of Bayman. NiCO has created her own project called Project Revival, a plan to revive all those who were killed who were allies of DOATEC, such as Tengu, Epsilon, and Omega.

Dead or Alive 3 and 4 Ultimate
Dead or Alive 3 Ultimate and Dead or Alive 4 Ultimate (also known as Dead or Alive Ultimate 2) are remasters of the fighting video games Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive 4 and are for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X on November 27, 2022.

Dead or Alive 1 Last Round
Dead or Alive 1 Last Round is a remaster of the fighting video game Dead or Alive 1 and was released November 26, 2022. This version combines both the Sega Saturn and Playstation versions of the game, adding new graphics, better gameplay, more features, and more characters.

The Future of Dead or Alive
In a interview in the December of 2022, the president of Team Ninja said "Even though that we have ended the story of the game, there is no questioning that we will still continue to make content for the game. More content will be released until we simply cannot release anymore content. We will keep DOA alive even though that the story is dead. I guess you can say Dead or Alive is now Dead AND Alive *laughs*"

Reboot
Dead or Alive 8, a reboot of the series, was released July 13, 2024 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Playstation 4, and Playstation 5.

2D Spinoff
A 2D version was released called Dead or Alive: Infinite exclusive for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch.

Dead or Alive 7 Ultimate
An ultimate edtition of Dead or Alive 7 was released November 1, 2023 and is for Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 and adds a continuing story to Dead or Alive 7, along with some more features and costumes.