New studio from ex-Yakuza developers will make "high-quality console" games

Nagoshi Studio staff photo
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Nagoshi Studio is the new game-making venture from the former head of the Yakuza series, and it has some big ideas about how to make games.

The new Tokyo-based studio, which is fully backed by China's NetEase Games, opened its official website with a message from its new boss (and namesake) Toshihiro Nagoshi. In the message, Nagoshi writes that the studio is meant to have an "open atmosphere" between employees and is "committed to creating content for the world to enjoy from this atmosphere."

Despite all that concentrated expertise pulled straight from the Yakuza and Judgment games, we still don't know if Nagoshi Studio's first project will follow in their footsteps as a story-driven, fisticuffs-infused crime drama, or if it will be something altogether different. All we know is that, according to its announcement press release, Nagoshi Studio will "focus on developing high-quality console titles that will be released globally."

Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.