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Famed game developer Yoshiki Okamoto went from riches to rags. His studio's website went off the internet. That's not all—the Game Republic offices are completely vacant, with a "For Rent" sign in the window. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5812064&view=rss&microfeed=true Game designer Yoshiki Okamoto went from riches to rags. The website for his studio, Game Republic, went off the internet. Not a good sign. More »
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He developed some of the most successful, ground-breaking games ever. But today, game designer Yoshiki Okamoto's personal blog has vanished from the internet. Rumors say so did he. More »
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Developer Dimps is responsible for developing Street Fighter IV for Capcom. Dimps president Takashi Nishiyama? "Pretty sure bisexual," outs former Capcom employee Yoshiki Okamoto. More »
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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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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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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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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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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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