Hi-Fi Rush and Ghostwire: Tokyo developer Tango Gameworks has reopened its office, and it’s now hiring for a brand new, as-yet-unannounced “action game” as well.
In an announcement on its new website, Tango says it’s not “ready to reveal much yet” about the project, but that it’s looking for workers in “almost every department” in order to bring a new “handcrafted game” to life.
Many of Tango’s staffers, including creative director John Johanas, programmer Yuji Nakamura, and UI designer Ayana Muraoka, have remained with Tango, but it’s also boasting new hires like Kingdom Hearts III animator Yuriko Takata.
The studio’s new About section on its website says that while Tango “has a penchant for action games”, the developer’s scope “won’t stop there”, and that the goal is to eventually create “new and innovative experiences, unencumbered by genre labels”.
For now, though, it sounds like Tango is focused on making the aforementioned action game, which may or may not be the sequel to Hi-Fi Rush that was confirmed by parent company Krafton back in September last year.
If you need a refresher, Tango Gameworks was founded by Resident Evil and God Hand‘s Shinji Mikami in 2010. Mikami would go on to depart the studio in 2023, founding a new company by the name of Kamuy.
Whilst with Tango, however, Mikami oversaw development on 2014’s survival horror game The Evil Within, although he was much more hands-off with subsequent games like The Evil Within 2 and 2022’s Ghostwire: Tokyo.
In May last year, Microsoft unexpectedly closed down both Tango Gameworks and Redfall studio Arkane Austin, leading PUBG and The Callisto Protocol publisher Krafton to step in and save the former (but not the latter, sadly).
We’ll have to wait and see whether the unannounced game is indeed Hi-Fi Rush 2, but for now, it looks like Tango Gameworks is back in force. Stay tuned for more.
