Today on twitter, producer Masaaki Yamagiwa announced that he is leaving Sony’s Japan Studio, based in Tokyo. He’s not leaving the gaming industry, however.
“I’m leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment later this month,” he wrote. “I will continue to work hard on creating games. Thank you all! “
While at Sony, Yamagiwa produced Bloodborne, Bloodborne The Old Hunters, Déraciné, and Tokyo jungle.
This is Japan Studio’s second highlight in recent months. In December, Keiichiro Toyama, creator of Mermaid and Gravity Rush, revealed that he had left the company to establish his own company, Bokeh Game Studio. Toyama was accompanied by Kazunobu Sato, who designed Puppeteer and was a producer in The Last Guardian, as well as Junya Okura, who worked as a designer in Gravity Rush.
There nWe still don’t know where Yamagiwa is headed.