Tomonobu Itagaki Returns to Game Design in Web3 Fashion

Last year, Tomonobu Itagaki, the best-known Japanese game designer for creating the Dead or Alive series of Tecmo (and the resurrection of the Ninja Gaiden franchise), decided to return to game development through the launch of a new studio. Made fun. By mid-2022, it turned out that such studios were Web3-centric institutions. “Apex Game Studio”..

By Itagaki’s Twitter publication On Tuesday, the studio, which already has a base of over 100 Japanese and Singaporean employees, will focus on creating high-quality, immersive 3A Web 3.0 games. Here, Itagaki seeks to leverage not only in-game NFTs, but also Metaverse and its associated developments (such as smart terminal technologies such as AR and VR devices).

The title of the first project from the studio is “Warrior,’NFT game built with Unreal engine For mobile and PC use. Scheduled for beta release in the first quarter of 2023, the game is said to be “fun and in the spotlight.” These are the two qualities that Itagaki sees as the most important factor in the success of a blockchain game to become a real game. It is also said that they will soon create their first IDO and host various giveaway events in the early adoption community.

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