rccsetzer said: 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunamis Slam Japan, Updates on Sony and Other Developers “All our colleagues in Aoyama and Shinagawa are ok. I hope the same is true for everyone else affected” – Warren Keyes of Sony Computer Entertainment. “Kyoto’s fine.” – Dylan Cuthbert of Q-Games “I’m alright.” – Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions and Konami “All of our staff evacuated safely. We want to send our support to all effected in this tragedy.” – Suda 51. “We are safe here at our Osaka and Tokyo offices, but more importantly, our hearts go out to everyone effected by the earthquake in Japan.” – Platinum Games. “Relieved. Plunged at home here somehow.” (Rough translation) – Fumito Ueda of Team Ico. “Thanks for you guys who emailed,tweeted,chat to me. Epicenter is far so I’m okay.” – Musician Baiyon of Q-Games and Media Molecule. Sony did have to shut six of its factories which lay closest to the epicenter of the quake, and this is just a small snippet from the vast amount of dialogue that has been flying back and forth throughout the industry. As many of you probably already know, many of the games we enjoy and the companies behind them are based in Japan. Incredibly, less than an hour after the quake, the number of tweets coming from Tokyo were topping more than 1,200 per minute, according to Tweet-o-Meter. |
Thanks for the info... here's one more:
@Shinji_Mikami_E: The staff at Tango are fine. Some couldn't get home and are staying at the office, but they are all OK.
Glad to see some of the most important people from the Japanese gaming industry are fine. I wonder how Sega, Square-Enix and Capcom are doing.