Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has started his own YouTube channel following his departure from PlatinumGames.
25.09.2023 - 12:45 / polygon.com / Shinji Mikami / Hideki Kamiya
Hideki Kamiya, the colorful director of the Bayonetta games as well as Capcom cult classics like Okami and Viewtiful Joe, is set to leave PlatinumGames, the studio he co-founded in 2007.
The news was announced by Platinum on Twitter/X and subsequently confirmed by Kamiya. Platinum said that Kamiya will leave the company on Oct. 12, after a 16-year run.
However, I feel this outcome is for the best.
I will continue to create in my Hideki Kamiya way.
I hope you'll keep your eyes peeled.
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“This came after a lot of consideration based on my own beliefs,” Kamiya said, “and was by no means an easy decision to make. However, I feel this outcome is for the best. I will continue to create in my Hideki Kamiya way. I hope you’ll keep your eyes peeled.”
“We are truly grateful for his creative ideas, leadership, and contribution to the growth of PlatinumGames from our start-up to this very day,” Platinum said. “We believe that he will continue to succeed in his future endeavors as a game creator. We are looking forward to seeing the game industry grow into a better place with him in it. We wish him all the best for the future!”
Kamiya is known for making the kind of flamboyant action games with razor-sharp mechanics that are synonymous with the PlatinumGames name — as well as for his pugnacious but tongue-in-cheek persona on Twitter, where getting blocked by him is considered a badge of honor.
At Capcom, Kamiya worked on the original Resident Evil and directed Resident Evil 2 before serving as director and writer on the first Devil May Cry. Along with producer Atsushi Inaba and Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, Kamiya set up the influential but short-lived Capcom internal studio Clover, where he directed the gorgeous Zelda-like adventure Okami.
When Capcom shuttered Clover, the trio left to found PlatinumGames, where Kamiya created the Bayonetta series, about a gun-toting witch, and The Wonderful 101, in which players control a horde of tiny superheroes. Kamiya was frustrated to spend years working on Scalebound, an ambitious open-world fantasy action game for Xbox, only for Microsoft to cancel the project.
What this rockstar creator is up to next is anyone’s guess, although some speculate on a reunion with Mikami, who left Platinum in 2010 to found Tango Gameworks, where he made the Evil Within games for Bethesda. Mikami left Tango in February this year, and his next project remains a mystery.
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Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has started his own YouTube channel following his departure from PlatinumGames.
By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.
Two weeks after announcing his surprise exit from Platinum Games—the studio he co-founded back in the mid-2000s—Hideki Kamiya has departed in the most Hideki Kamiya way ever. The Bayonetta creator peeled out of Platinum's parking lot in a Lamborghini, announcing that he's «off to the unemployment centre» and starting a brand new YouTube channel.
Hideki Kamiya, formerly a vice president at PlatinumGames, has launched his own YouTube channel, where he revealed that he feels “very refreshed” after resigning from the company he co-founded.
Hideki Kamiya has launched a YouTube channel following his planned leave from PlatinumGames today. In his first video, Kamiya discusses his leave and plans going forward.
Hideki Kamiya, one of the co-founders of PlatinumGames and director of a number of notable games, includingBayonetta, Ōkami and Devil May Cry, has launched his own YouTube channel and posted his first video following his departure from PlatinumGames today (October 12).
Platinum Games co-founder Hideki Kamiya announced last month he was departing from the studio. Having founded it in 2006 in Osaka, Japan, later working on games like Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101, he left his reason for leaving up in the air. He simply said, «This came after a lot of consideration based on my own beliefs» and that he feels «this outcome is for the best.» Now, just a few weeks later, Kamiya has started a YouTube channel – aptly called «Hideki Kamiya Channel» – and in his first video, he reveals he's not retiring, as first reported by VideoGamesChronicle.
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Hideki Kamiya has confirmed he will be leaving Japanese studio PlatinumGames on 12th October 2023. The director of classics like Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, and Okami, Kamiya shared the news on Twitter and explained the decision was «based on my own beliefs and was by no means an easy decision to make». It sounds like Kamiya could stay in the gaming industry following his departure, though, as he says he'll «continue to create in my Hideki Kamiya way».
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