Following his departure from Bandai Namco Studios again in June this yr, former Tekken 8 and Tekken 7 director Kohei Ikeda, referred to as Nakatsu, has announced that he’s now a part of VS Studio SNK.
VS Studio is a Tokyo-based unbiased sport improvement studio led by former Tekken sequence producer Katsuhiro Harada with assist from Deadly Fury developer SNK. Harada established the studio not lengthy after leaving Bandai Namco Studios himself.
Writing on his private X account, Ikeda commented:
Engaged on video games once more with two of my former bosses feels nostalgic in some ways, whereas on the identical time, the thrill of making one thing utterly new makes day by day extremely fulfilling.
Whereas there aren’t any particulars out there but on what VS Studio is engaged on, CEO Harada has talked about that he’s eager to explore competitive games and reply to the expectations gamers certainly maintain of him. Now that there’s one other Tekken veteran on board, the combating sport neighborhood probably has much more to sit up for from the studio.