Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has started his own YouTube channel following his departure from PlatinumGames.
25.09.2023 - 08:01 / rockpapershotgun.com / Hideki Kamiya / New
PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya is leaving the company to work on new projects. His last day is 12th October 2023. Announcing the move on Xitter, Platinum thanked Kamiya for “his creative ideas, leadership, and contribution to the growth of PlatinumGames from our start-up to this very day”.
The post continues: “We believe that he will continue to succeed in his future endeavours 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 himself added on his personal account that the move “came after a lot of consideration based on my own beliefs 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.”
Since getting into gamedev as a Capcom designer in 1994, Kamiya has lent his name to some of the industry's best-regarded action games. He directed Resident Evil 2 and the original Devil May Cry - originally conceived as a Resident Evil game - before joining Capcom’s celebrated Clover Studio to direct Viewtiful Joe and the wonderful Okami.
After co-founding Platinum and directing the original Bayonetta, he oversaw two Bayonetta sequels and cyberpolice-themed monster-snagging oddity Astral Chain. He also directed Xbox exclusive Scalebound, a game about gadding around on dragonback, which didn’t come to fruition.
It’s anyone’s guess what Kamiya might do next, but his track record speaks for itself. If nothing else, going independent is unlikely to make him any less voluble on social media.
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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