Today on Twitter, producer Masaaki Yamagiwa has announced that it is leaving Sony’s Tokyo-based Japan Studio. It doesn’t leave the game industry, though.
“I am leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment at the end of this month,” he said write. “I’m going to continue to work hard on creating games. Thanks so much everyone! ”
While at Sony, Yamagiwa did Bloodborne, Bloodborne The Old Hunters, Déraciné, and Jungle Tokyo.
This is the second high profile left of Studio Japan in recent months. In December, Keiichiro Toyama, the creator of the Siren and Gravity Rush, published that he had left the company to set up his own suit, Bokeh Game Studio. Kazamaobu Sato teamed up with Toyama, who designed Puppet and he was a representative of it The last Keeper, as well as Junya Okura, who worked as a designer on it Gravity Rush.
No word yet on where Yamagiwa is headed.