Shinji Mikami Is Leaving Tango Gameworks
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Tango Gameworks’ founder Shinji Mikami is departing the studio within the coming months after 12 years on the studio. The information was first damaged by TrueAchievements, who acquired and verified a company-wide e mail to ZeniMax workers asserting the departure earlier than Bethesda publicly confirmed the information on Twitter.
Bethesda’s assertion, posted beneath, does not cite a motive or a departure date however thanks Mikami for his tenure on the studio:
We will affirm that Shinji Mikami has determined to depart Tango Gameworks within the coming months. We thank him for his work as a artistic chief and supportive mentor to younger builders on The Evil Inside franchise, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and, after all, Hello-Fi Rush.
We want Mikami-san nicely sooner or later and are excited by what lies forward for the proficient builders at Tango.
-Bethesda
Mikami is credited because the creator of Resident Evil, directing a number of entries throughout his lengthy tenure at Capcom, the place he additionally labored on titles corresponding to Dino Disaster, Satan Could Cry, and Phoenix Wright. Mikami co-founded Capcom’s Clover Studio in 2004, the staff behind Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and God Hand (which he directed), however he departed the writer after Clover’s closure in 2007. He and former Clover leads would set up Platinum Video games later that yr, the place he directed Vanquish. After leaving Platium, Mikami based Tango Gameworks in 2010, which was acquired by ZeniMax the identical yr. He directed the studio’s first title, The Evil Inside, and served as government producer on its sequel and Tango’s subsequent video games, Ghostwire: Tokyo and this yr’s Hello-Fi Rush.
It is unclear what Mikami will do subsequent, however he is leaving Tango in a superb place for the long run. Hello-Fi Rush, the colourful musical motion recreation that shocked launched in late January, was spearheaded by John Johanas, director of The Evil Inside 2, and a staff of youthful designers. It had maybe the strongest crucial reception of Tango’s portofolio to this point, with some calling it an early Recreation of the Yr contender (this is our optimistic evaluation). Mikami as seemingly performed a superb job fostering contemporary expertise and new concepts at Tango earlier than his departure and we’re excited to see what’s subsequent for the veteran designer.
