Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno is leaving Capcom after 30 years to make a "new game in a new environment"
Aug. 31, 2024Itsuno’s last game at the company was this year’s Dragon’s Dogma 2
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Hideaki Itsuno has been pumping out beloved games at publisherCapcomfor over three decades, from multiple Devil May Cries to both Dragon’s Dogmas, but he’s now leaving the company to make new games in a “new environment.”
“From September, I will start developing a new game in a new environment,” he continues. “I hope to create fun, beautiful games that are as memorable as, or even more memorable than, the ones I have created so far.” There’s currently no word on what type of game Itsuno is working on next, what this “new environment” could be, or why he’s leaving Capcom, but whatever the famed director makes next deserves to be paid attention.
After working on some oft-forgotten fighting games in the late 1990s -who remembers Power Stone? -Itsuno took over the directing reigns of the most contentious game in the stylish slasher series, Devil May Cry 2, which was struggling with a turbulent development cycle at the time.
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