{"id":17926,"date":"2026-08-20T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=17926"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:53:47","slug":"former-tekken-8-director-kohei-ikeda-joins-vs-studio-re-groups-with-tekken-veteran-katsuhiro-harada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=17926","title":{"rendered":"Former Tekken 8 Director Kohei Ikeda Joins VS Studio, Re-Groups With Tekken Veteran Katsuhiro Harada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/08\/20\/vs-studio-1280-1787213078386.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Former Tekken 8 Director Kohei Ikeda has introduced he has joined newly established developer VS Studio, the Tokyo-based, SNK-owned outfit that was based in Could 2026 by former Tekken producer and director Katsuhiro Harada.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI\u2019ve joined VS Studio as the subsequent step in my journey,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nkt_dreamer\/status\/2089637245762597198\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>confirmed Ikeda by way of social media. <\/u><\/a>\u201cEngaged on video games once more with two of my former bosses feels nostalgic in some ways, whereas on the similar time, the joy of making one thing fully new makes each day extremely fulfilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI\u2019m actually trying ahead to seeing what we will create collectively!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ikeda <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hot-on-the-heels-of-katsuhiro-haradas-exit-from-bandai-namco-the-director-of-tekken-7-and-8-has-left-too\"><u>left Namco Bandai again in June<\/u><\/a>. His 20-year stint on the storied developer culminated together with his duties as recreation director on each Tekken 7 and eight. At the very least in response to Harada, Ikeda\u2019s remaining course on Tekken concerned guaranteeing one in all Harada\u2019s personal remaining requests got here to fruition, which was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/tekken-8-roger-jr-trailer-inspired-by-viral-kangaroo-punching-clip-was-prompted-by-former-tekken-director-katsuhiro-harada\"><u>his plan to tease the return of Roger Jr. by re-creating a 10-year-old viral clip out of Australia of a person punching a kangaroo to rescue a canine<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2896921488 video jsx-2008855984 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9\"\/><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ikeda\u2019s exit got here quickly within the wake of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/former-tekken-lead-katsuhiro-harada-sets-up-own-company-vs-studio\"><u>Harada\u2019s personal departure following over three a long time at Namco Bandai, after which the Tekken legend shortly based VS Studio.<\/u><\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">A glimpse at what VS Studio has in retailer is probably going a way off, however it might seem there isn&#8217;t a scarcity of preventing recreation expertise assembled on the new developer to date.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN evaluations group. You may observe him down on Bluesky @mrlukereilly to ask him issues about stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tekken 8 Director Kohei Ikeda has introduced he has joined newly established developer VS Studio, the Tokyo-based, SNK-owned outfit that was based in Could 2026 by former Tekken producer and director Katsuhiro Harada. \u201cI\u2019ve joined VS Studio as the subsequent step in my journey,\u201d confirmed Ikeda by way of social media. \u201cEngaged on video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[3551,10239,10236,430,10238,10235,10237,108,403,3798],"class_list":["post-17926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-director","tag-harada","tag-ikeda","tag-joins","tag-katsuhiro","tag-kohei","tag-reteams","tag-studio","tag-tekken","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17927,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926\/revisions\/17927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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