Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
Capcom veteran Hideaki Itsuno has announced his departure from the Japanese videogame giant, after over 30 years as a senior member of its development staff. Itsuno is best-known for his work on the Devil May Cry series, created by Hideki Kamiya but arguably reaching its peak with the Itsuno-directed Devil May Cry 3, and Dragon's Dogma, Itsuno's own dream game with the sequel turning out as his last major project for Capcom..
Itsuno has certainly been involved with some memorable games. A fighting game enthusiast, he joined Capcom on that basis and his star rose swiftly: The earliest glimpse of Itsuno's talents came in 1995's excellent Street Fighter Alpha, which he co-directed. Itsuno would play a key role in Capcom's fighting games over the next decade, directing and co-directing entries in the Rival Schools, Capcom vs SNK, Darkstalkers and Power Stone series.
"The final days of development on DMC 2 were wild," recalled Itsuno in 2013's Devil May Cry: Graphic Arts."I joined the team right near the end, as the deadline was approaching, and it's no exaggeration to say that every available staff member was mobilized. They even recruited non-team members such as myself. DMC 2 just yanked out all these members from other teams who had been busy working on their own projects.
Itsuno would go on to direct DMC4 and DMC5, as well as overseeing Ninja Theory's unfairly maligned DmC. After DMC4 Itsuno got the chance to develop one of his original ideas, a medieval fantasy RPG with a Greco-Roman bestiary and stylings. Dragon's Dogma pioneered things like the pawn system but most importantly was a meaty RPG world where the combat was Capcom quality.
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