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Former Capcom Employee Talks Sexuality of Street Fighter IV Developer's President
Developer Dimps is responsible for developing Street Fighter IV for Capcom. Dimps president Takashi Nishiyama? "Pretty sure bisexual," outs former Capcom employee Yoshiki Okamoto. -
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Folklore Dev Was Working On Tom And Jerry For Brash [Update]
Game Republic, (in)famous for its work on Genji and Folklore, as well as its founder Yoshiki Okamoto, was working on a Tom and Jerry game tie-in with an upcoming movie, according to a new interview. More »
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Comment by jandlecack: Damnit, I loved Folklore and I want a sequel. Sounds like it's not happening then. By the way, Dark Mist is... 15 Responses | Other threads
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Why Isn't Grand Theft Auto HUGE In Japan?
Game developer Yoshiki Okamoto is best known for his years at Konami and Capcom, where he worked on titles like Gyruss and Forgotten Worlds as well as his involvement in Final Fight and Street Fighter II. He's an industry vet and has been around. When he looks at the current Japanese game landscape, Okamoto says there's at least one thing that does not compute: More »
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Comment by Llost: Japanese have good taste in story telling and character design and westerners have good taste in gameplay mechaniics. Japan loves... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Microsoft Passed On Genji Dev's Other Xbox 360 Exclusive
Believe it or not, Genji developers Game Republic made a game for Microsoft that it thought was even less marketable than Every Party, the team's lame duck party game that never made it out of Japan. Game Republic president and former Capcom designer Yoshiki Okamoto tells 1UP that the Folklore devs were nine months into a project that Microsoft just wasn't interested in. Why would Microsoft pass on a uniquely Japanese title, one with the Okamoto pedigree? More »
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Comment by LittleBigPlaneteer: Why beg for Microsoft's attention in Japan when you have...Nintendo? ...Sony? Honestly that's not such a bright business move is... 3 Responses | Other threads
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"Western Games Are More Advanced Than Japanese"
Gloom and doom time. Well, for Japanese game developers. While the country's game makers seems to be down on themselves of late, it's hard to separate that from stereotypical Japanese humility and plain old self-realization. Here's Genji developer Game Republic head and former Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto talking about whether Japan can catch up with the West: More »
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Comment by penetraitor: he's saying that roughly 10 years has passed and it would take a lifetime to catch up? Overexaggerate much? If... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Okamoto Warns Of Atari Caliber DS Crash
Game Republic's Yoshiki Okamoto, a twenty year industry vet whose credits include Street Fighter II, Resident Evil and, more recently, Folklore, tells Gamasutra he fears the Japanese game industry may be in danger of suffering the same fate that befell Atari in the early '80s. If you're too young to remember, a glut of software for the Atari 2600 and its peers, the majority of which we'll be nice enough to describe as liquid feces written in assembler, flooded the market, resulting in a industry crushing crash. More »
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Comment by strideo: I do have to say that I was pretty frustrated when I went to a Best Buy and had to... more » | Other threads
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