{"id":18312,"date":"2026-04-02T00:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mr-resident-evil-signs-a-deal-with-mr-stellar-blade\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:02:20","slug":"mr-resident-evil-signs-a-deal-with-mr-stellar-blade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mr-resident-evil-signs-a-deal-with-mr-stellar-blade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Resident Evil signs a deal with Mr. Stellar Blade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Resident Evil legend Shinji Mikami&rsquo;s new studio, Unbound Inc., has been acquired by Shift Up, the company behind <em>Stellar Blade<\/em> and <em>Goddess of Victory: Nikke<\/em>. Unbound&rsquo;s unannounced games will be fully supported and distributed by South Korean publisher Shift Up, which is led by CEO Hyung-Tae Kim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Mikami is an icon of Japanese horror as the director of <em>Resident Evil<\/em>, its 2002 remake and <em>Resident Evil 4<\/em>, as well as a founder of PlatinumGames and Tango Gameworks. Tango was responsible for The Evil Within series, <em>Ghostwire Tokyo<\/em> and <em>Hi-Fi Rush<\/em>. Shift Up recently developed the hit action game <em>Stellar Blade<\/em>, with Kim as director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Even with an adorably grotesque introduction video, it&rsquo;s unclear exactly what Unbound is working on at the moment, but the studio is targeting the global PC and console market. Its concepts involve plenty of monsters, as is tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Consider even the surface-level possibilities here: The campy horror of Resident Evil blended with the melodramatic beauty of <em>Stellar Blade. <\/em>The frenzy of <em>Hi-Fi Rush<\/em> amped up by the anime stylings of <em>Goddess of Victory: Nikke<\/em>. <em>The Evil Within III<\/em>, but make it sexy. These are jokes, but the sentiment remains &mdash; this partnership makes a lot of sense and it&rsquo;ll be exciting to see what shakes out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_ngb7b4ilfeiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_17gb7b4ilfeiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&ldquo;We believe we can respect each other as creators and make games together,&rdquo; Mikami said in a Shift Up blog post about the deal. &ldquo;And I think with Hyung-Tae, we can even enjoy the hard parts&hellip;. Seeing my own vision and ideals come into focus like this, and finding someone whose direction aligns so closely is something I&rsquo;ve rarely experienced before in my career. I hope we keep building together for a long time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">It&rsquo;s also heartening to see stability for Mikami&rsquo;s new studio. His previous team, Tango Gameworks, was acquired by Microsoft in 2021, and Mikami left in 2023 after the release of <em>Hi-Fi Rush<\/em>. Microsoft shuttered Tango in 2024 during a period of mass game industry layoffs, and its remaining team was eventually sold to Krafton. Mikami has been quietly building up his own studio since 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Mr. Resident Evil signs a deal with Mr. Stellar Blade<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Evil legend Shinji Mikami&rsquo;s new studio, Unbound Inc., has been acquired by Shift Up, the company behind Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Unbound&rsquo;s unannounced games will be fully supported and distributed by South Korean publisher Shift Up, which is led by CEO Hyung-Tae Kim. Mikami is an icon of Japanese horror as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mr-resident-evil-signs-a-deal-with-mr-stellar-blade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mr. Resident Evil signs a deal with Mr. Stellar Blade&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}