{"id":242972,"date":"2026-08-21T01:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/vs-studio-adds-another-tekken-veteran-as-kohei-ikeda-joins-as-game-designer"},"modified":"2026-08-21T01:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:20:53","slug":"vs-studio-adds-another-tekken-veteran-as-kohei-ikeda-joins-as-game-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/vs-studio-adds-another-tekken-veteran-as-kohei-ikeda-joins-as-game-designer","title":{"rendered":"VS Studio adds another Tekken veteran as Kohei Ikeda joins as game designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vs-studio-adds-another-tekken-veteran-as-kohei-ikeda-joins-as-game-designer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>8 director Kohei Ikeda has joined Katsuhiro Harada\u2019s VS Studio.<\/p>\n<p>Ikeda announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/tekken-8-director-kohei-ikeda-leave-bandai-namco-just-months-after-katsuhiro-haradas-exit\"> departure from Bandai Namco in June<\/a> after twenty years with the company. At that time, he did not disclose his future plans but stated he would \u201ccontinue taking on new challenges as a game developer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has now joined VS Studio as a game designer. \u201cWorking on games again with two of my former bosses feels nostalgic in many ways,\u201d Ikeda shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nkt_dreamer\/status\/2089637245762597198\"> social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 director Kohei Ikeda has joined Katsuhiro Harada\u2019s VS Studio. Ikeda announced his departure from Bandai Namco in June after twenty years with the company. At that time, he did not disclose his future plans but stated he would \u201ccontinue taking on new challenges as a game developer.\u201d He has now joined VS Studio as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}