NetEase has tapped former Resident Evil and Devil May Cry producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi to steer its new growth studio, GPTRACK50.

In August, Kobayashi introduced he was departing Capcom after 27 years to affix NetEase, however failed to offer any specifics about his new position.

Now we all know the veteran producer shall be serving as president of NetEase’s nascent Osaka-based studio GPTRACK50, which has been tasked with creating unique online game and leisure franchises that shall be able to find a worldwide viewers.

“The studio strives to construct unique sport contents and to broaden the spectrum from simply video games to movie and leisure sequence. The president, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, has personally labored on the manufacturing of the Resident Evil’s live-action and CG animation sequence,” reads a press launch.

“He has additionally been concerned within the manufacturing of many extra media portfolios of varied unique sport IPs, together with live-action, animation, stage play, manga adaptions, and so forth. By using this distinctive expertise, the studio will create new IPs and broaden them to the worldwide scale via films, novels and manga variations.”

Although it has multimedia ambitions, GPTRACK50 will primarily create video games for console and PC platforms.

Kobayashi stated the studio will create experiences that “captivate and delight” gamers, and claimed the event workforce has a wealth of expertise – though it is unclear what number of workers have already joined the nascent studio.

NetEase has scaled considerably in 2022. The Chinese firm has opened a number of new studios, together with Jar of Sparks and Nagoshi Studio, acquired Detroit: Become Human developer Quantic Dream, and invested closely in studios akin to Something Wicked and Something Random.