Famitsu this week has a 15-page feature on Naruto and .hack developer CyberConnect2, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
During an interview with CyberConnect2 president and CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama, the studio boss shared further details about the company’s previously teased “new challenge.”
“Going forward, we’re doing various things for our 20th anniversary project,” Matsuyama told Famitsu. “Of course, being a game company, this ‘new challenge’ is a challenge regarding a game title.”
Developer CyberConnect2 confirmed the incoming closure of its satellite office in Montreal, Canada. At the end of July, it'll be shutting down its only other office beyond the main one stationed in Fukuoka, Japan.
The Montreal office opened in 2016, 20 years after the developer was originally founded. Its statement noted that the second office "led CyberConnect2 on a creative journey in the development of tools and cutting-edge techniques used in creating games."
No mention was made in the developer's statement about if it will offer any severance or transitional help to those about to be laid off.
CyberConnect2 boss Hiroshi Matsuyama has confirmed that a new .hack game is in development! in its 20th anniversary concert.
Yeeeesss!!!! I hope they vary up the dungeons, but I’m so happy this is a thing
I wouldn't mind some cleaned up remasters of the originals. Those are the ones I have real nostalgia for.
It was always mind boggling they released the .hack g.u. but never the originals. To this day I still never opened them waiting on the originals
I'd like the original games to be released again, I couldn't get into them the first time around.
lol ^^ but 6 people downvoted my comment and didnt get that it was a joke as well since I knew it was a joke ;)
From Nintendo Everything: "CyberConnect2 has a pretty major game coming out in just a few weeks. The company has been known for working on major manga / anime properties like Naruto and Dragon Ball, but will soon be releasing Fuga: Melodies of Steel. In addition to being a new entry in the Little Tail Bronx series, it’s also the very first self-published title from CyberConnect2."
