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On leaving Tango Gameworks in 2023 industry legend Shinji Mikami started up a new development studio called Unbound. This was the third studio Mikami has co-founded or founded, after PlatinumGames (2007) and Tango itself (2010), not to mention his leadership of Capcom's iconic Production Studio 4 and later Clover Studios.

Unbound was recently in the news thanks to the appearance of a website with the scantest of details about its first project, and it hasn't taken long for a major publisher to step in and start throwing money at Mikami. The Korean publisher Shift Up, best-known in the West for Stellar Blade, has announced in a press release that it has acquired Unbound outright through purchasing all of the studio's shares.

"I find it deeply meaningful to join forces with Unbound, which brings together a world-class development team led by CEO Shinji Mikami," says Shift Up CEO Hyung-Tae Kim. "This acquisition will serve as an opportunity to deliver the best gaming experience to users worldwide and further solidify Shift Up’s global development competitiveness."

"I am very pleased to be partnering with Shift Up CEO Hyung-Tae Kim and all the employees," says Mikami. "I sense strong synergy with CEO Kim, who is also an active creator, and I believe this is an ideal partnership that allows us to focus on creativity. We will do our best to create fun games so that both companies, working as one, can meet our fans’ expectations."

The announcement comes with a video, which is worth a look for Mikami obsessives because it shows various elements of what Unbound is working on, including an office environment with weird tree-tendrils and various accessories that span the gamut from Egyptian to gothic aesthetics. And spider-like things: lots of those. Yep, sure looks like some sort of horror game.



One caveat: the video says at the end that some AI was used, which is not surprising as it's mixing what are definitely game assets with real-world footage. There are some comments about this making the game "AI slop" but I'm reserving judgment until we see the product itself: just because AI is being used in a promotional video doesn't mean...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com

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