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Hideki Kamiya, co-founder of PlatinumGames and the original director of Bayonetta, recently left the Japanese studio. Despite his departure, Kamiya anticipates that the Bayonetta franchise will continue without his involvement. Before leaving, he held the position of vice president and played a crucial role in overseeing franchises like Bayonetta a...
Hideki Kamiya has officially departed from PlatinumGames as of 12 October 2023. What is he doing now? In a surprise move, the legendary game creator and developer has launched his own YouTube channel. In his first video, Kamiya discusses about why he departed from PlatinumGames and what his plans are moving forward. He said: “You can BLEEP...
In a surprise announcement on X (Twitter), the official PlatinumGames account announced that Hideki Kamiya is officially leaving the Japanese developer in October 2023 after almost two decades with the company. https://twitter.com/platinumgames/status/1706201875564130785 Hideki Kamiya himself has also posted on his own personal Twitter accoun...
PlatinumGames vice president Hideki "Twitter banlord" Kamiya plans to make more Bayonetta action games for the world, at least according to a recent IGN Japan interview. The Bayonetta director/supervisor/producer said that creators need to "have their own convictions" and make the games they want to make instead of what many people want, using B...
Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Action, Witches, Devil May Cry-style fighting, Hideki Kamiya nonsense PlatinumGames vice president Hideki Kamiya, who created Bayonetta with his Team Little Angels back in 2009, said that his team may have prematurely announced the third game. He even stated in a recent Famitsu interview that development literal...
[Update: 19/10/22] Added Bloomberg sources that dispute the claims in the payment story below. Sources in a Bloomberg report have disputed claims from Hellena Taylor. PlatinumGames intended to rehire Taylor last summer for at least five sessions, with each paying US$3,000 to US$4,000 for four hours in the studio. This brings the payment to US$15...
In what could be a common-sense statement made bold, PlatinumGames said it will not be interested in NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. According to a recent Videogame Chronicles interview, CEO Atsushi Inaba was pretty blunt with his comments on NFTs. "I understand it’s a hot topic right now, and it’s really starting to gain momentum, ...
PlatinumGames developer Hideki Kamiya announced recently that the company's 2D shmup tribute title Sol Cresta will not be out at the end of 2021. The game now has a "when it's out" release date, most likely in 2022. However, the team has shown off a number of new features for the game. During the official livestream, the team demoed the game's s...
Platinum Games executive director Hideki "Loves Twitter Block Button" Kamiya has commented on the Nintendo Switch exclusivity of Bayonetta 3. For those keeping track, Bayonetta 2 is a Nintendo exclusive after Sega seemingly ditched the IP. Nintendo is the company that funded and published Bayonetta 2's creation, so obviously, it's a Wii U and Ni...
The incredibly popular South Korean video game convention G-Star is getting an online showcase in the next two weeks thanks to the global pandemic. Dubbed G-CON 2020, the online stream of the expo will feature a ton of speakers including: PlatinumGames' Hideki Kamiya, who is still blocking us to this day. Paradox Interactive's Alexander ...
Late last month, Platinum Games teased that the last of their Platinum4 announcements would be arriving on 1 April 2020. Somewhat expectedly, that turned out to be an April Fool's Joke, with the "announcement" being about a collaboration with Hamster Corporation for an arcade game called Sol Cresta, a supposed follow-up to the Moon Cresta and Te...
Update: here's the teaser trailer. Looks epic! https://youtu.be/s6inZzkZmiI Original story Platinum Games' next project is a brand new IP called Project GG. It'd be directed by Hideki Kamiya, the director of Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101, and will be the studio's first self-published title. The news comes via an interview from Famitsu magazin...
Remember that Xbox One exclusive Scalebound? No, you didn't, because that open-world action-adventure game from PlatinumGames was cancelled three years ago because both the company and Microsoft were at fault for not delivering what was needed. "I think there are areas where we could’ve done better and I’m sure there are areas that M...
Right after Nintendo announces the windfall sales numbers of Astral Chain and a bunch of other top tier Nintendo Switch titles, PlatinumGames came up with this pretty quick tease. Possibly for one of the most-requested Wii U port. https://twitter.com/platinumgames/status/1223205555625291776 For those who don't know, that's Hideki Kamiya of Devil ...
Guess we finally know the real reason why Ikumi Nakamura left Tango Gameworks & Ghostwire Tokyo; she's going back to an old flame. In this case, it's a flame generated by wolf sun goddess Amaterasu. Just recently on Twitter, she and PlatinumGames director Hideki Kamiya teased a true Okami sequel. https://twitter.com/nakamura193/status/1185203...
Let's face hard cold facts: Capcom wouldn't have its slew of IPs right now -Resident Evil and Devil May Cry- were it not for two figureheads formerly from the company: Shinji Mikami and Hideki Kamiya. But since it's Devil May Cry week, we're going to focus on the latter's accomplishments. For as brash and outspoken as he is to the point where he h...
The beauty of the Nintendo Switch, apart from having kick ass games in 2017 like Splatoon 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, is letting you play console quality games when you're mobile. Whether you're in your car, on the bus, on an Uber, or on the LRT/MRT, you can't deny how convenient and awesome this is. Heck, I'll just say that it's conveniently aw...
Here's a newsflash: Platinum Games head developer Hideki "I made Devil May Cry & Okami" Kamiya is on a Twitter ramble again. But thankfully it has nothing to do with calling out white people or calling fanboys silly names. Instead, it's about Bayonetta 3, which is coming out for Nintendo Switch on an unspecified date or year. Check out the tal...
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