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Former Konami Europe boss hops over to Capcom Europe
Former Konami Europe President Kunio Neo has joined Capcom Europe, GamesIndustry International reported. The news comes after David Reeves stepped down as COO of Capcom Europe in December.Neo was succeeded by Shinji Harano as president of Konami's European branch in February 2012. Since no official announcement of Neo's role with Capcom has been made, we've reached out to Capcom and will update as we learn more.
Upcoming Castlevania's 'lead' console is PlayStation 3, Konami producer says
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow may be in development for both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, but the game's producer David Cox recently pointed out via his Twitter account that the "PS3 is the lead platform" for the upcoming game. That isn't to say the Xbox 360 version will be lesser for the fact, as he quickly followed up his statement with the assurance that "the game is identical on both formats [Xbox 360 and PS3]." He's also noted a few times recently that we'll be hearing more about the game sometime "soon," so in lieu of no new information, at least be contented with the thought that you'll get some additional Castlevania deets sometime in the near future. Maybe. %Gallery-65043%
Why 'Lords of Shadow' wasn't 'Castlevania: Lords of Shadow' at first
Being Dave Cox, head of European development for Konami, can't be an easy job. For one, he's not Hideo Kojima, so he's already got that going against him. Worse yet, he's had to tow the company line and let his upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow languish out of the spotlight while Castlevania Judgment got all the attention. It seems Konami didn't even have the confidence to allow Lords of Shadow the Castlevania license -- nor did fans. "It was quite a radical departure from what had gone before with Castlevania, and there was a little bit of nervousness that perhaps it wouldn't be accepted as a Castlevania game," Cox told GameReactor. Though he claims the project was approved originally as a Castlevania game and was built from the get-go with the vampire-hunting series in mind, the folks in charge at Konami had cold feet going into the big reveal at Games Convention 2008. "Senior management took the decision that we were going to announce it as Lords of Shadow, see what the reaction is, and if it's a good one then this would become a fully-fledged Castlevania." It was definitely a good one. %Gallery-65043%[Via VG247]
