What are some of the benefits of working closely with Japan?
MB: Namco Bandai, as a company, is launching a worldwide studio. The collaboration between our team and Japan has been greater than it has ever been in the history of the company. And that is an amazing, amazing opportunity for us. We have access to some the top designers in the company — in Japan. We can pick their brains just to say we have these directorial challenges, how do you guys solve them? That’s amazing. We’ve been able to bounce off ideas to key members of the Soulcalibur team. If a game has an intense hand to hand experience we can go to the Godfathers — the guys who know how to make fighting games better than anyone in the world and ask what are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? How can we make this better? I thank my lucky stars everyday to have that opportunity. CV: It’s always better to have a project is shared between two teams. That’s a great advantage we have now. We no longer have to be responsible for one project. It’s a shared project now. A lot of great i
