Shinji Mikamithe creator of Resident Evil and The Evil Within, spoke about his decision to leave Tango Gameworksexplaining that one of the reasons is the desire to move away from the survival horror genre.
For those who don’t know, Mikami left Tango Gameworks in February 2023, a studio he founded in 2010. In an interview with Byking (translated by Automaton Media), Mikami spoke about the acquisition by Zenimax and the farewell happened last year.
“I was CEO for only 6 months. I think a lot of people were under the impression that I was the representative, but I was very close to an employee. I had “___ producer” attached to my name, but I wasn’t an executive or anything like that,” Mikami said. “Tango Gameworks is not the name of a company, but the name of a department. The name of the company is ZeniMax Asia KK”
Mikami subsequently revealed that he had made the decision to leave Tango Gameworks eight years before the actual farewell and that he extended his stay due to his sense of responsibility towards the projects currently under development.
Give space to young developers and abandon Survival Horror
As for the reasons for leaving, Mikami cited two factors. The first is that she wants to create a development environment where young talent can have more frequent opportunities and experience, through short development cycles and games on a smaller scale than expensive triple-A games. The second reason is the desire to move away from the survival horror genrefor which he is famous.
For this reason, he decided to found a new company earlier this year, Kamuy, with which it aims to achieve both objectives. At the moment this new studio has not yet announced new games, but we know that it will collaborate with Grasshopper Manufactures for the development of Shadow of the Damned: Hella Remastered, the remaster of the 2011 action created thanks to a collaboration between Mikami, Suda51 and Akira Yamaoka , the composer of Silent Hill.
