High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dead or Alive 5 (abbreviated to DOA5) is a fighting game in the Dead or Alive series, developed by Team Ninja in partership with Sega AM2 and released by Tecmo Koei simultaneously for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September 2012. It is the first Dead or Alive game to have a multi-platform release since Dead or Alive 2 as well as the series` first installment that was released for the PlayStation 3. A PlayStation Vita port, entitled Dead or Alive 5 Plus, is scheduled for release on March 22, 2013.