Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe contacted me to let me know that Ken Kutaragi won't be heading up the newly formed joint business between SCEI and Namco Bandai.

But when I asked them to double check they became a bit unclear and said they would look into it. This morning Nick Sharples, director of their PR team, was kind enough to send along some more details about the newly formed Cell-centered game developer.

It appears that Namco Bandai's Isao Nakamura, best known for creating the Ridge Racer franchise, will actually be the director of the company while the other board members will be "absentee directors" who will support Nakamura's role.

A bit more details:

The new company, combining development technologies and flexible way of thinking which both SCEI and NBGI have, will develop new contents business in order to create interactive and "surprising" contents.

Isao Nakamura is known for creating the Ridge Racer franchise but the new content to be created by CELLIUS is not limited to racing genre only. CELLIUS office will be located in Nakameguro, separately from SCEI or Namco Bandai offices and will initially start with around 30 people.

By saying that the company is "not limited" to the racing genre, they certainly imply that will be one of the things they will be doing. I'll leave it to you to finish this post with some Kaz-speak.

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