Shinji Mikamis New Studio Unbound Games Is Working on New Original IP for PC PS5 and Xbox

His next project is now under work of Resident Evil and The Evil Within director Shinji Mikami. The legendary game designer, who starred in the original Resident Evil at Capcom and later developed Tango Gameworks, has created Unbound Games, a new fully independent studio dedicated to making AAA games for PC, PS5, and Xbox. a new IP, the company is now hiring for its first project.

Unbound Games news Details emerged recently (as seen by VGC) on the company’s website, revealing details about its profile and staff. The company Unbound was founded on November 30, 2022, and began its business in May 2023 months after Mikami left Tango Gameworks. The company’s representative director of the company is Mikami, who is listed as a .

Unbound Working on New IP

On Unbound’s website, the company employs staff who have previously worked on games such as Ghostwire Tokyo, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Sonic, Onimusha, Dead Rising, Hi-Fi Rush, among others.

It is a high-end consumer game development studio that produces original AAA titles, we are ‘an established fully independent company’ and the overview on the company website’s recruitment page said (translated from Japanese) ‘We have been an extremely successful full-time industry in which it has grown into.

Unbound is looking to hire developers to work on a “new original IP.”

It’s a great opportunity to be one of the first dozens of people at the heart of development with freedom and discretion in this less restrictive context, which is just launched for launching – working on redesigned game development studio that has been created; it will work on an original IP project (from launch) from its new partner. This challenge is a challenging task that we are looking for people who can bet some time of their lives with us,’ the recruitment page read.

Mikami and Unbound have not shared details about the studio’s first project.

Following the success of his hit titles such as Resident Evil, Dino Crisis and ReIDENT evil 4, Mikami later founded Tango Gameworks in 2010 with a movie adaptation of The Evil Within. Tango under Mikami wrote The Evil Within 2, Ghostwire Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush, a for the film. In 2023 Mikami left Tango after Hi-Fi Rush was launched.

Bethesda parent Zenimax acquired Tango in the year it was formed, and later closed by Microsoft in May 2024 with other BethEshada-owned studio names such as Arkane Austin. Nevertheless, months later, Krafton acquired Tango and the IP rights to Hi-Fi Rush. Tango relaunched the company in June last year and confirmed it was hiring for a new action game when it announced that it would be adding another to its lineup.