Shinji mikami tokuro fujiwara

I've written in past columns about the wave of studio closures, restructuring and redundancies that has swept through the game industry this past couple of years. But one high-profile case this month hit me especially hard: the closure of Tango Gameworks.

Originally founded in by legendary Resident Evil developer Shinji Mikami, Tango Gameworks developed well-received games such as The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo.

Then, it found huge acclaim for the multi-award-winning action game Hi-Fi Rush in Tango Gameworks was acquired in late by ZeniMax Media, owner of Bethesda Softworks, which itself was acquired about a decade later by Xbox owner Microsoft.

Tango's Vision

Mikami founded Tango as a way to create games without the corporate pressure he felt at his previous employer, Capcom, while also fostering a new generation of game developers. 

I interviewed Mikami in At that time, Tango's first game codenamed Project Zwei, was still shrouded in mystery.

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