{"id":127262,"date":"2022-08-12T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-135870"},"modified":"2022-08-12T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T04:30:00","slug":"veteran-capcom-producer-hiroyuki-kobayashi-joins-netease-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/12\/veteran-capcom-producer-hiroyuki-kobayashi-joins-netease-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Capcom Producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi Joins NetEase Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1347474d0735b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1347474d0735b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Devil May Cry\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1347474d0735b\/devil-may-cry.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1347474d0735b\/devil-may-cry.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Devil May Cry\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Capcom<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi has announced his departure from Capcom after 27 years. To mark his 50th birthday he&#8217;ll be filling the same roll over at the Chinese video game giant NetEase.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi started out as a programmer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/resident_evil\">Resident Evil<\/a> series in the &#8217;90s and took up producer roles for series like <strong>Dino Crisis<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/sengoku_basara_samurai_heroes\">Sengoku Basara<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/devil_may_cry\">Devil May Cry<\/a>. He&#8217;s also credited as a producer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragons_dogma_dark_arisen\">Dragon&#8217;s Dogma<\/a> series and in more recent times was executive producer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mega_man_11\">Mega Man 11<\/a>. He shared his latest career move via social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, Aug. 12th is my 50th birthday. As such, I would like to share something very special with everyone: After serving 27 years with gratitude, I have departed from Capcom on March 31st, 2022, and will be officially joining NetEase Games as a producer. Detail plans will be shared later so please stay tuned. I will strive to continuously create more enjoyable entertainment experiences for everyone at this new company, this new era. Thank you for the continued support. Hiroyuki Kobayashi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o2xyR2X4YP\">pic.twitter.com\/o2xyR2X4YP<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u5c0f\u6797\u88d5\u5e78 (@HiroKobaP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HiroKobaP\/status\/1557895229021118464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kobayashi&#8217;s move follows a string of similar stories in recent times. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/10\/grasshopper-manufacture-joins-chinese-video-game-giant-netease\">NetEase last year acquired Suda51&#8217;s studio, Grasshopper Manufacture<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_monkey_ball_banana_mania\">Monkey Ball<\/a> and <strong>Yakuza<\/strong> creator Toshihori Nagoshi has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/08\/monkey_ball_and_yakuza_creator_is_in_talks_to_leave_sega_for_netease\">founded a new studio under NetEase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you played any of the games Hiroyuki Kobayashi was involved with over the years? <em>Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Capcom Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi has announced his departure from Capcom after 27 years. To mark his 50th birthday he&#8217;ll be filling the same roll over at the Chinese video game giant NetEase. Kobayashi started out as a programmer on the Resident Evil series in the &#8217;90s and took up producer roles for series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}