Devil's Third is an action-adventure hack and slash shooter video game by Tomonobu Itagaki's Valhalla Game Studios, developed for Wii U and Microsoft Windows, with the latter version being an online multiplayer-only title. The Wii U version was released in Japan on August 4, 2015, and will be released in Europe on August 28, 2015.
This is the first game developed by Tomonobu Itagaki after leaving Tecmo in 2008 and forming his own game studio, Valhalla Game Studios, with other members of Team Ninja who left Tecmo in 2009. The game is a departure from Itagaki's previous genres, hack and slash and fighting games.
Devil's Third switched engines during its development, as the company responsible for making its original engine closed down. Since that time, Valhalla Game Studios have continued development using an adaptation of video game developer Relic Entertainment's engine. Although a version of Devil's Third for the Wii U was not confirmed at the time, Itagaki reported that the game would run perfectly fine on the system. Devil's Third then used the same game engine as Darksiders II. It now uses Unreal Engine 3 as the main game engine.
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