Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya announces surprise exit from Platinum Games

PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya is leaving the studio

PlatinumGames co-founder and vice president Hideki Kamiya is leaving the company next month. Kamiya acted as lead director for the Bayonetta series, among many other popular game franchises.

Bayonetta director and Platinum Games co-founder Hideki Kamiya is leaving the studio

Kamiya onstage at Microsoft’s 2016 E3 press conference. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Hideki Kamiya, the Japanese video game director known for his work on Bayonetta, Viewtiful Joe, and The Wonderful 101, is leaving PlatinumGames. The news was first announced by the development studio on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, with Kamiya himself confirming the news via his own account shortly afterwards. He is due to officially …

Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya announces surprise exit from Platinum Games

Hideki Kamiya – no longer vice president of Platinum The man behind Devil May Cry, Ōkami, and Bayonetta has left the developer he helped to found but will remain in the video games industry. In a surprise announcement, PlatinumGames vice president and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has announced he will leave the company next month. ‘This came after a lot of consideration based on my own beliefs and was by no means an easy decision to make,’ he…

Hideki Kamiya Departing From Platinum Games Next Month

Hideki Kamiya is leaving Platinum Games next month. Kamiya co-founded the Osaka, Japan-based studio in 2006 and later went on to direct games like Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101. His final day at Platinum will be October 12, according to both a statement released by the studio and Kamiya on his personal Twitter account.  As for why, neither Platinum's statement nor Kamiya's own tweets indicate a specific reason. Platinum thanks Kamiya for his w…

Platinum Games Director Hideki Kamiya Leaves Studio

Kamiya weighs in on his departure.