Legendary designer Shinji Mikami to leave Tango Gameworks and Xbox
pcgamer.comTango Gameworks' co-founder and legendary game director Shinji Mikami is to leave the studio within the coming months, Bethesda has confirmed. Mikami set up Tango after leaving Platinum Games, which he had also co-founded with several Capcom alumni. His career began at Capcom where he was quickly recognised as a singular talent, and he cut his directorial teeth on a licensed 16-bit game (Goof Troop, of all things) before going on to design and direct the game that would make his name: Resident Evil.
A company email began circulating earlier today and has now been confirmed as authentic by Bethesda, which has released its own statement. «I am writing today to let you know that studio head Shinji Mikami has decided to leave Tango Gameworks in the coming months,» said Bethesda SVP Todd Vaughn. «Mikami-san has been a creative leader and supportive mentor to young developers at Tango for 12 years through his work on the Evil Within franchise, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and of course, Hi-Fi Rush.»
This has been a feature of Mikami's career. After Resident Evil, he worked on Dino Crisis and guided the young Hideki Kamiya in directing the game's sequel, before returning to the series with the outstanding Resident Evil 4.
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Mikami became a key member of Capcom's Clover Team, an internal studio of all the talents, and among other projects, his final Capcom game would be the peerless God Hand. When he and others left to form Platinum, Mikami was explicit that he would direct one title and pass on as much as he could before leaving, which is exactly what he did: and Vanquish was brilliant.
Mikami founded Tango Gameworks in 2010 and directed The Evil Within (2014), before once more stepping back and
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