Resident Evil Director Shinji Mikami Has Been Working on a New AAA Action RPG for Over a Year After Microsoft Closed His Last Studio—And No One Noticed

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This snippet gives a tantalizing—but very opaque—look at what Shinji Mikami is up to with his new studio, Unbound:

  1. Secret project, largely under wraps – Mikami hasn’t shared concrete details about the game itself. We only know it’s an original IP, and the studio is actively recruiting for it.

  2. Studio vision – Unbound aims to mix young talent with veteran developers to produce “fun development projects,” suggesting experimental approaches and creative freedom.

  3. Possible genre – Masato Kimura mentions a “large, super realistic action-RPG,” which hints at scope and tone, though nothing about gameplay, story, or setting is confirmed.

  4. Mikami’s personal style reflected – The mission statement on the site reads like an abstract monologue about creativity and autonomy: “a world that is not bound by anything… constraints are like a game.” This could suggest a game that values emergent systems or player-driven exploration rather than rigid linear design.

In short, we have hints about ambition, team philosophy, and scope, but almost no hard facts about the actual game itself—Mikami is keeping the details extremely close to the chest.