is a Japanese

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and businessman. He was the former

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and producer of the

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subsidiary

Clover Studio was a Japanese video game developer founded by Capcom. The studio developed the PlayStation 2 port of '' Viewtiful Joe'', both versions of '' Viewtiful Joe 2'' for the GameCube and PlayStation 2, and the PS2 titles '' Ōkami'' and '' God Hand'' ...

, who developed the games '' Viewtiful Joe'', ''

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'', and '' God Hand''. He is currently the head producer at the development division at

PlatinumGames PlatinumGames Inc. is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka. It was founded in October 2007 as result of a merger between Seeds Inc. and Odd Inc. Capcom alumni Shinji Mikami, Atsushi Inaba, and Hideki Kamiya founded Seeds Inc. after ...

and the CEO since 2021, after years being vice-president in the company.

Career

Inaba was born in

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, in 1971. Inaba first worked for

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, specifically working on '' R-Type Leo''. From there he joined Nazca Corporation and then SNK, where he did programming work on the '' Samurai Shodown'' series. After reading a want ad for Capcom in ''

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'' magazine, Inaba joined the company in 1998 with hopes of working on the next ''

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'' game. He ended up working on

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's ''

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'', and later produced games in the '' Ace Attorney'' and '' Steel Battalion'' series. Inaba, Kamiya, and

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, as well as other Capcom employees, began working at the company's new second-party developer

in April 2004. Inaba acted as the team's producer and CEO, which managed to produce a few titles, including the critically acclaimed ''

''. Inaba left Capcom in 2006 to form his own company, named SEEDS. Clover was being officially closed by Capcom in early 2007. In October 2007, SEEDS merged with the company ODD. This new company was rebranded as

. He holds the position of head producer of the development division. The company employs many former key members of Clover. In May 2008, PlatinumGames announced a four-game deal with

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. The games involved in the development and publishing deal include ''

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'', a "stylish action game" for the

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and

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directed by Hideki Kamiya and featuring "a witch battling angels", a science-fiction RPG for the

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called '' Infinite Space'', ''

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'', an "ultra ultra violent" action game for the Wii with black and white ''

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''-inspired graphics., and '' Vanquish'', an action heavy third-person shooter directed by Shinji Mikami. A fifth game, '' Anarchy Reigns'', was later added to this deal and was released in 2012 for PS3 and Xbox 360. Inaba was also the producer for '' Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance'' after PlatinumGames picked up development from Kojima Productions. In January 2021, it was announced that he would be the new CEO of PlatinumGames. Previously, Inaba was vice-president for years.

Recognition

Inaba was ranked number 49 on ''

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s Top 100 Game Creators of All Time list in 2009.

Works

Video games

Canceled games

*'' Scalebound'' – Producer *'' Lost Order'' – Producer

References

External links

PlatinumGames website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Inaba, Atsushi 1971 births Capcom people Japanese chief executives Japanese video game designers Living people People from Kanazawa, Ishikawa