Resident Evil creator is sad because Microsoft decided to close Tango Gameworks

Through his Twitter account, @shinji_mikami, Mikami shared a short message, which says ‘Tango closed. Sad’. Although somewhat laconic, this reaction is in line with the current situation.

Shinji Mikami, after leaving Capcom and leaving the series aside resident Evil, was involved in various companies. In October 2007 he founded PlatinumGames, and left this company in 2010.

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In March of that year he founded Tango Gameworks. In a comment made in a recent interview he said that he was only CEO of it for six months; The reason was that Bethesda Softworks acquired the studio and then he was just another worker.

Mikami commented that he had the idea of ​​leaving the company before but wanted to finish the projects he had started, such as The Evil Within and its sequel, a continuation of his work with games in the style resident Evil.

It was not until February 2023 that he decided to leave Tango Gameworks and found a new video game studio, Kamuy. In this company he intends to move away from the survival horror genre and work with young generations of developers.

Likewise, it aims to develop small-scale video games that do not take years to be ready. There are those who believe that the creator of resident Evil knew that Microsoft intended to close Tango Gameworks.

Obviously, only Shinji Mikami can corroborate this. But he commented that before its closure it was no longer a company but just a division within Bethesda. In addition to this studio, Arkane Austin and Alpha Dog were closed; Roundhouse Games ended up disbanded.