Several developers from Nagoshi Studio have reportedly left the company and joined other studios, including Capcom and LightSpeed Japan Studio. The information comes from updates to their public profiles.
These departures follow earlier reports that NetEase stopped funding Nagoshi Studio and its first game, Gang of Dragon. Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of Yakuza and founder of the studio, recently appeared in a Famitsu interview without any company name attached
Nagoshi Studio was founded in 2021 with NetEase support and included many former Sega developers.