KOEI TECMO
Koei Tecmo’s executive vice president Yosuke Hayashi brings Vince Pavey up to speed on what’s been happening at the company behind Ninja Gaiden, Dynasty Warriors, Nioh and more
This interviewee’s responses have been translated from Japanese, and have been rearranged and edited for clarity.
K 36 | MCV/DEVELOP February/March 2024
oei Tecmo is one of the biggest video game companies in Japan, and the games it creates have been popular
with players around the world for decades. It is the studio behind classics like Ninja Gaiden, Dynasty Warriors, Fatal Frame and Nobunaga’s Ambition, as well as other more recent RPG hits like Nioh, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and Atelier Ryza. Yosuke Hayashi is both an executive vice president at Koei Tecmo and a long-established
game developer and producer. Eventually joining the company after becoming a fan of their games as a child playing Famicom, he has since been involved in the development of some of their biggest and most respected franchises, and made his way up the ranks within Team Ninja after the departure of its former head Tomonobu Itagaki. Hayashi’s role soon expanded beyond just
one team at the firm, and he became part of Koei Tecmo’s board of directors. Recently,
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