Dragon’s Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno says he’s leaving Capcom to start out a brand new mission

Hideaki Itsuno, who directed the Dragon’s Dogma sequence and different main video games for Capcom, introduced on Saturday that he’s leaving the corporate. “From September, I’ll begin creating a brand new sport in a brand new atmosphere,” he wrote in a put up on . Itsuno has been with Capcom for the reason that ’90s, and labored on a slew of fashionable sequence, together with Satan Could Cry, beginning with the second sport. He created Dragon’s Dogma, and the latest title underneath his belt, Dragon’s Dogma 2, offered over inside 10 days of its launch earlier this yr. It additionally for concurrent gamers on launch day.

“I hope you’ll proceed to help Capcom’s video games and characters,” Itsuno wrote on Saturday, including, “I hope to create enjoyable, lovely video games which might be as memorable as, or much more memorable than, those I’ve created up to now. Please keep tuned for my subsequent creation!”