I'm really excited about this. Everything I cared about Capcom is here, except they seem to care much more about ideas and quality than mainstream appeal and PR!GameDaily Biz wrote:In news sure to please many gamers, former members of Clover have formed their own studio: Seeds. Such a move has been rumored since Clover's announced liquidation late in 2006. Among its current members are Viewtiful Joe producer Atsushi Inaba, Devil May Cry/Viewtiful Joe creator Hideki Kamiya and estranged Capcom producer and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.
The company has a total of 51 employees, and is still recruiting. More information can be had (for Japanese speakers) on Seeds' official webpage. To find out more about Clover's acclaimed Okami, please read GameDaily BIZ's Chart Toppers.

Capcom will still own the rights to Resident Evil and DMC though, so I think those series' are in danger (I'm no longer excited about RE: Umbrella Chronicles, anyway).
I have become quite attached to the storyline and characters of Resident Evil after playing pretty much every game in the series since 1996, but I suppose it would be a little hypocritical of me to say that I was sad to see its creator abandoning it when I'm so happy to hear he'll be working on original projects.
My top three game developers/directors are Hideo Kojima, Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami. I'm really ecstatic to see them all in small teams that give them the freedom to be creative and do what they want.
On a side note, I can remember that both Mikami and Kojima have been eager to collaborate in the past, but they've always been busy on their own personal projects when one was willing to start making something. I've thought to myself before that the only thing that could make the idea of Project S seem more ideal to me would be if Mikami was involved. With Mikami having collaborated and reacted really positively to Suda in the past and eager to collaborate with Kojima, and development only starting in the 4th quarter of 2007, maybe this is their chance?
I'd say it was unlikely, but Suda seems to find a way of doing everything I'd like him to. I can't count the amount of times I've thought of Suda doing something interesting and unusual, only for him to do it a couple of weeks later. It gets ridiculous! in fact, I was discussing it with my friend Chris (who is also a fan of Snatcher, and very big fan of killer7. He's also very excited about the Policenauts translation) suggesting the idea of having to find and talk to leads to find assasins in No More Heroes. Literally 2 hours later, I arrived home to find the new copy of the Official UK Nintendo Magazine had arrived with a big feature on No More Heroes. The very feature was mentioned by Suda in the magazine!
