Today on Twitter, producer Masaaki Yamagiwa has announced that he’s leaving Sony’s Tokyo – based Japan Studio. However, he is not leaving the game industry.
“I’m leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment at the end of this month,” he said. wrote. ‘I’m going to continue to work hard on creating games. Thank you so much to everyone! ”
While at Sony, Yamagiwa manufactured Bloodthirsty, Bloodborne The Old Hunters, Déraciné, en Tokyo Jungle.
This is the second sensational departure from Japan Studio in the last few months. In December, Keiichiro Toyama, creator of Siren and Gravity Rush, revealed that he left the company to set up his own outfit, Bokeh Game Studio. Toyama was accompanied by Kazunobu Sato, who designed Doll Player and was a producer on The last guardian, as well as Junya Okura, who worked on as a designer Gravity Rush.
There is aA word is not yet where Yamagiwa is headed.