Tekken 8 director Kohei Ikeda leaves Bandai Namco just months after Katsuhiro Harada's exit
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Tekken 8 director Kohei Ikeda has left Bandai Namco after more than 20 years, following the December 2025 departure of Tekken director and executive producer Katsuhiro Harada. Ikeda directed Tekken 7 and Tekken 8 and said he will continue taking on new challenges as a game developer, though he did not reveal his next steps. Harada has since founded VS Studio with SNK investment to collaborate on game software development.
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