Shinji Mikami Is Leaving Tango Gameworks
After 12 years, Shinji Mikami has revealed plans to leave Tango Gameworks.
Bethesda senior vice president Todd Vaughn revealed this news in a company email sent to Zenimax employees. As reported by TrueAchievements, this is what the letter said:
“I am writing today to let you know that studio head Shinji Mikami has decided to leave Tango Gameworks in the coming months. 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.”
Shinji Mikami is one of the most important and illustrious game developers in history. If Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideki Kojima can trace their work in the games industry to the 1980s, Mikami is part of a comparatively newer generation, having entered the industry in 1990.
Starting in Capcom in 1990, Mikami would stay under the Japanese giant for over a decade. His career defining work under Capcom would be 1996’s Resident Evil, a watershed moment in survival horror games, and one that would launch one of Capcom’s most successful game franchises.
Mikami would also helm key roles in the development of Resident Evil 2, the Gamecube remake of the first game in 2002, and Resident Evil 4. The franchise’s success would also lead to Mikami working on spinoff series Dino Crisis, as well as a new original franchise that would point to his future career trajectory, stylish action game Devil May Cry.
In 2004, Mikami would be given free reign to start his own studio within Capcom, named Clover Studio. Clover would be comprised of some of the best development staff under Capcom, including Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba. While Clover worked on Okami and the Viewtiful Joe games,
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