“Father of Evil Castle” Shinji Mikami will leave him to found Tango Gameworks in the next few months

Bethesda confirmed earlier that Shinji Mikami, the famous game producer who created games such as “Invasion of Evil Spirits”, “Ghost Line: Tokyo”, and “Hi-Fi RUSH” in the past, and founded the Tango Gameworks game studio, will be in the future. quit within a few months.

According to Todd Vaughn, senior vice president of Bethesda’s development department, recently sent an email to internal employees, in addition to revealing that Shinji Mikami is regarding to leave, he also emphasized that Tango Gameworks will continue to be responsible for “Ghost Wire: Tokyo” and “Hi-Fi RUSH” in the future. ” and other game content maintenance, and will also work with Bethesda to promote future development.

Shinji Mikami joined CAPCOM following graduating from the Department of Commerce of Doshisha University in 1990, and in 1996, he produced the classic game “Evil Castle” as a director, so he also has the title of “father of “Evil Castle”. Promote the production of CAPCOM’s classic games such as “Dinosaur Crisis”, “Devil Hunter”, and “Ace Attorney”.

After leaving CAPCOM in 2007, Shinji Mikami, Hideki Kamiya, Atsushi Inaba and others established the predecessor of PlatinumGames, SEEDS Studio, until he left in 2011 and established Tango Game Studio, which was subsequently merged into ZeniMax, Rebranded as Tango Gameworks, which became part of Xbox Game Studios following ZeniMax was acquired by Microsoft in 2020.

However, following Bethesda confirmed that Shinji Mikami will leave the news, he did not further disclose its follow-up development plan.