Katsuhiro Harada spent 20 years as the figurehead of Tekken before his sudden "retirement" in December. He's long been synonymous with Bandai Namco's fighting series and it was honestly a shock—even to me, a non-fighting game guy—when he left. But it turns out Harada hasn't left development nor fighting games: less than half-a-year since his December departure comes news of his new job.
Harada is now the CEO of a new studio under SNK, the storied Japanese company behind the Neo Geo and a handful of highly regarded arcade games, most of them very much Harada's stylistic wheelhouse. The King of Fighters and Fatal Fury series come immediately to mind, but you've almost certainly heard of Metal Slug as well. In addition to games you can play on your PC, SNK continues to develop for arcades too.
Harada's new studio is called VS Studio SNK, which apparently has many meanings. VS can mean "videogame soft" and it can also mean versus. But, as Harada says in a statement, it also has "many other meanings symbol...
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