Tango Gameworks’ founder Shinji Mikami is departing the studio within the coming months after a 12-year tenure. The information was first damaged by <em><a href="https://www.trueachievements.com/n52956/shinji-mikami-leaving-tango-gameworks">TrueAchievements</a></em>, who acquired and verified a company-wide e-mail to ZeniMax workers saying the departure earlier than Bethesda publicly confirmed the information on <a href="https://twitter.com/bethesda/standing/1628751694258479104" goal="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>.
Bethesda’s assertion, posted beneath, doesn’t cite a purpose or a departure date however thanks Mikami for his tenure on the studio:
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We are able to verify 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, in fact, Hello-Fi Rush.
We want Mikami-san nicely sooner or later and are excited by what lies forward for the gifted 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 similar to Dino Disaster, Satan Might Cry, and Phoenix Wright. Mikami co-founded Capcom’s Clover Studio in 2004, the group 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 12 months, the place he directed Vanquish. After leaving Platinum, Mikami based Tango Gameworks in 2010, which was acquired by ZeniMax the identical 12 months. He directed the studio’s first title, The Evil Inside, and served as govt producer on its sequel and Tango’s subsequent video games, Ghostwire: Tokyo and this 12 months’s Hello-Fi Rush.
It’s unclear what Mikami will do subsequent, however he’s leaving Tango in a superb place for the longer term. 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 group of youthful designers. It had maybe the strongest crucial reception of Tango’s portfolio to date, with some calling it an early Recreation of the 12 months contender (right here’s our optimistic overview). Mikami has seemingly accomplished a superb job fostering recent expertise and new concepts at Tango earlier than his departure, and we’re excited to see what’s subsequent for the veteran designer.
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