Capcom is in the midst of a Golden Age, and we spoke with producer Masachika Kawata about how the publisher / developer has managed this during an era of extreme industry volatility.
We traveled to Capcom’s Osaka offices to learn about the resurrection of its long-dormant Onimusha series and toured Kyoto to see the real-life inspiration behind the game’s “gorgeously eerie” dark fantasy action.
All the core first-person horror tenets are in place, wrapped in a tense, underwater setting that tells one of gaming's most intriguing sci-fi stories.
After TwitchPlaysPokémon, watching Twitch facilitate the crowd-source
playing of video games has become a strange phenomenon. Fallout 3 is
the latest to participate in the trend.
The first Mass Effect's lead writer, Drew Karpyshyn, left the studio a
few years ago to focus on writing his series of Chaos Born novels, but
has recently returned to the studio.