The folks behind Street Fighter and Resident Evil will be setting up a new branch in Singapore.

This report came from a LinkedIn page of one Ikuo Hirano, who is listed as the director for Capcom Singapore PTE LTD (via Nintendo Soup & various blogs). This page is backed up with a SGP Business Registry entry which stated that the office has been registered since April 2020.

The office’s activities include “wholesale of computer games” and “publishing of gaming software/applications”. There doesn’t seem to be anything indicating game development so far, so the Capcom Singapore branch might just be another arm for publishing. We’ll get more information when the company is ready to make a public announcement.

Southeast Asia has always been a prime location for major Western and Eastern studios to branch out. Ubisoft Singapore, Riot Games Singapore, Larian Studios in Malaysia, and PlayStation Studios Malaysia are good examples. Nintendo and Atlus are also following suite, opening up Southeast Asian Facebook pages to gauge consumer interest. Hopefully if it’s true, this could mean great news for Singaporeans and Southeast Asians to get closer with the house that makes Monster Hunter.