Lightspeed Japan Studio, a subsidiary of the Tencent-owned firm Lightspeed Studios, has introduced a key enlargement with the opening of a brand new workplace in Osaka.
Below the management of Hideaki Itsuno – who maybe most famously spearheaded the event of the Satan Might Cry collection following his introduction as a substitute director for DMC2 – Lightspeed Japan Studio has additionally made three new vital hires.
All three are Capcom veterans. The primary is narrative designer Toshihiro Nakagawa (Bingo Morihashi), who has beforehand labored carefully with Itsuno in creating eventualities for the Satan Might Cry franchise. The second is Daigo Ikeno, an illustrator famed for his work on the Avenue Fighter collection (most notably third Strike). Ikeno additionally made vital contributions to Satan Might Cry as a personality artist.
Lastly, illustrator ‘Gouda Cheese’ (who may be higher referred to as ‘Bengus’) has additionally been employed. ‘Cheese’ has contributed to plenty of high-profile preventing titles, together with Tremendous Avenue Fighter II, Darkstalkers: The Night time Warriors, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes.
Lightspeed Japan Studio is at present onerous at work on making a ‘cross-platform’ AAA motion sport. It is nonetheless early days but, so no particulars have been shared as to what it would entail, however we predict it is secure to say that it is going to be fairly related in design to the likes of Satan Might Cry and Bayonetta.
No matter occurs within the months and years forward, Capcom cannot be happy on the lack of three key veterans. Nakagawa, Ikeno, and ‘Cheese’ have made some actually invaluable contributions to the success of the corporate, and we’ll be eager to see what all of them give you over at Lightspeed Japan Studio.
