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Tekken 8 director Kohei Ikeda leaves Bandai Namco Studios after 20 years  - AUTOMATON WEST

Tekken 8 and Tekken 7 game director Kohei Ikeda Nakatsu announced on June 1 that he has left Bandai Namco Studios. This comes only half a year following the departure of longtime Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada. …

Jun 1, 2026 · Amber V

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The “VS” in Katsuhiro Harada’s new VS Studio doesn’t stand for “versus,” but the Tekken veteran is keen on “exploring competitive games”  - AUTOMATON WEST

… In a joint media interview attended by AUTOMATON, Harada revealed that the letters can be traced to his and longtime Tekken dev and director Yuichi Yonemori’s roots working at Namco’s Video Game Soft Development Department, abbreviated internally as the “VS Development Department.” The now-defunct … …

May 13, 2026 · Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor