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CLOVER studio, who have in the past been responsible for Okami and Viewtiful Joe, is now SEEDS studio (I guess they are going backwards?). Designers Kamiya and Mikami are apparently working on a few big titles for (assumably) the PS3 and the Xbox 360 as they will no longer be supporting the PS2 any longer. What they're working on is still kept tightly under wraps, but I'm sure these talented fellas will be able to churn out something we all like. Kim Phu More »
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In a heart-wrenching move to many, Clover Studios was shuttered late last year. Fronted by Atsushi Inaba, the studio brought us titles like Okami and GODHAND. We had heard rumblings that Inaba had created another Osaka-based studio. What's more, it apparently had big financial backing. More »
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When Capcom shuttered Clover, the arm behind Okami and Godhand, grown men cried. Producer Atsushi Inaba fled the company, while his partner-in-crime Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) kept contractual ties with Capcom. More »
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Former Sega marketer and current Capcom VP, Charles Bellfield pulls no punches in a recent GameDaily interview. With Clover Studios (God Hand, Okami) recent closing, Bellfield talks about what that means for Capcom and what exactly the subsidiary was. He points out that it was "physically a floor in our sixteen-story R&D building in Osaka in Japan. It was identical to the other fifteen floors that were in the same building..." Moreover, the majority of the team has been transitioning from Clover to Capcom for months. Continuing, Bellfield adds: More »
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Capcom has supplied game site Next Generation with a Q&A which hopefully clear up some of the confusion (and heartbreak) regarding Clover Studio's shuttering. Capcom states that the subsidiary was liquidated because it would be better to have all the R&D resources in a single company. The fifteen staff members still working in Clover Studio will be transfered to Capcom R&D. Moreover, all the Clover copyrights will revert to Capcom. More »
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As of today, the studio behind Viewtiful Joe, Okami and God Hand is no more. Clover Studio was shuttered by main shareholder Capcom. At a Board of Directors' meeting was held, and it was decided that Clover should dissolved. The reason? According to the Capcom IR release: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=207026&view=rss&microfeed=true After checking-in at LAX for my flight to Osaka, I spotted a familiar face in the international terminal. Rather, I saw two: Atsushi Inaba and Shinji Mikami (Devil May Cry, the Resident Evil franchise). Both worked together on Okami. And both apparently traveled together as well. More »
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