The revelation that Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami is working on a new survival-horror has set gaming sites and internet forums ablaze. Mark Butler salutes Mikami’s return to the genre he pioneered – and argues it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Veteran video game developer Shinji Mikami has established a new company.
That’s according to a bio of the developer on the new Shadows of the Damned Hella Remastered website, which claims that Mikami has recently founded ‘Kamuy Inc’.
No details further details on the company have been shared. There is also no indication of what the company will do.
Shinji should never stop making games. Kinda crazy he left the funding of M$ though.
It's the enjoyment of independence since leaving Capcom that he probably likes. Your company, your rules.
Also, I don't think it's Microsoft's money that would have kept him around. The problem is their culture. We've seen more than once where individuals or teams wanted to leave Microsoft because of how they run things.
I don't think I've ever seen a developer at Nintendo or Sony that bought themselves out from being controlled. But we've seen it at Microsoft. Should be interesting what he decides to do next.
I remember when it was announced that he was leaving Tango, someone on N4G claimed that he was old and it was time for him to retire.
I couldn't help but laugh at the ignorance. Mikami (like most Japanese people), do not want to work for Microsoft, they want their games to be played by their fellow citizens, which means Switch, Playstation, and PC. But this fool couldn't comprehend that. 🤣
Was waiting for his return announcement, glad to see that he's back! Please don't make mobile games.
I hope it's still survival horror
They should build on what they did with Evil Within for a new IP and take notes from the Evil Within sequel with those open hub areas.
Wouldn't mind if it was like Resident Evil but with a vampire virus instead.
Yeah this man's skills need a new start to thrive. Hope he keeps doing what he loves. Wonder what his next project is.
The famous director who worked on the original Resident Evil 4 shares his opinion on the game's 2023 remake after playing it.
Sad all these former directors of masterpieces no longer work at these former jobs.
Not really sadly, his Evil Within series hasn't taken off or surpassed his previous creations in any way, I do wonder why he left Capcom though..
He also made Shadow of the Damned, GodHand, and the fantastic Vanquish. Man is a legend!
Microsoft may own Ghostwire: Tokyo developer Tango Gameworks, but the new Xbox port is inferior across the board.
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When a Microsoft first party studio puts out a better game on PS5. Lol
• Worse Ray Traced Reflections
• RT Shadow misalignment
• Lower Resolution
• Up to 13% lower FPS
Yeah so much for MS trying to sabotage the PS version of games. Jim Ryan made that claim with COD.
Is MS doing this on purpose? Probably not.
Maybe they just have bad hardware and did the best they could on xb? Maybe S was a factor? Who knows?
MS can easily "fix" this problem in exactly that way. If this bad press gets the attention of the Eye of Sauron this won't happen again
MS is just plain incompetent, period. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
Yeah, this is a tough pill to swallow.
Just seems like the latest example of studios mis-firing once stuck in the Microsoft swamp. We all know what happened to Rare, we're seeing right now the trouble Arkane/Bethesda are having getting a game that looks and plays like Redfall to run above 30fps on series X and now we're seeing the downgrade for an existing game in Ghostwire Tokyo.
I wonder if Microsoft are just so desperate to get some games out that they're pushing the devs too hard and ending up with unpolished/unfinished products, just to hit their preferred release schedule? Or perhaps, in this case, the devs are committing to a release date on the mis-guided preconception that the series XS will be as easy and quick to develop for as the PS5 was?
Remember the excuse of Sony got marketing deals... Yeah... They must also have with redfall....
There goes Sony's theory that Microsoft would put a inferior version of their games on PS5. LOL.
Dumb af. A game that was deep in development before the deal was official, that launched a year early on PS5 would not be sabotaged ffs. They want the initial impressions of the game to be good. It wasn't a simultaneous release. They wouldn't kill their game with a garbage version day 1 just to spite Sony. Not when that was the only console at launch. Lord you try-hard fanboys are weak mfers. Childish, half formed arguments that are moronic.
Let's kill our game at launch with a broken version so it fails and then a year later release a superior version on XB that f***ing nobody will care about because the game's rep will already be in the toilet. At least have thoughtful and well supported arguments if u want to fanboy. God help the social media gaming wars. Sad, weak, rhetoric from those who can't form compelling, new ideas or rational arguments of their own.
Yes you're so right, people that don't understand sarcasm are dumb af...
Well Sony is right. They know that MS cant even make their game look good, what you think they can make a PS5 version of the game look good?
What? A jk that Sony sabotaged the XB version? Ok, i can dig but the FTC comment showed your true colors. Gangsta green? Change it. But ofc there should be no regulation in business. Great point. Let the biggest companies do anything they want. Brilliant. It's always the best thing. MS should buy Embracer and Tencent next. It helps competition. And how dare Sony oppose industry altering acquisitions that clear impact competition and revenue. No company would fight something that could drastically impact them for the negative. Petty Sony with their political connections. Luckily MS isn't petty nor has political connections. Idc if ppl can't tell sarcasm or simply disagree. 99% of fans are mouth breathing muppets with regurgitated, uninteresting thought. Both sides.
...wow...a bit of advice, learn the art of subtle sarcasm instead of insane rantings.
nice deflection. You can't even admit that a MS dev had almost a year to fine tune an UNREAL engine IP (cuz you know MS studios are allegedly masters of Unreal lol) to perfection to illustrate the differences between the two consoles and couldn't. These are the Hi-Fi Rush guys by golly. You know your GOTY dev of 2022 with the bestest game evar....well since that 2D sidescroller came and went. So much for scaling huh? Series G rears its ugly head again. No wonder they cancelled the PS5 version of Starfield, they can't handle the fallout (pun intended)
You should really start charging rent instead of letting MS live rent free in your head.
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Oh, they will, just like the Xbox One and Xbox One S fire sales during last gen.
I would've cared but the game is being published by Bethesda so it's going nowhere near my console.
The father of survival-horror genre is going to "fix" everything again this retards who made RE5 r all a bunch of useless & clueless fools and this downfall is going to continue as it seems in RE6 that's not Resident Evil idiots that's third person action shooter, I was very happy when I learn that Mikami decide to show this pathetic loosers how a true survival horror game is done, cant w8 to play it!