{"id":29132,"date":"2011-12-07T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T13:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29132"},"modified":"2011-12-07T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T13:24:21","slug":"the-last-guardian-loses-another-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29132-the-last-guardian-loses-another-exec","title":{"rendered":"The Last Guardian loses another exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, reports came in that Team Ico chief,\u00a0Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, was rumoured to have left the internal <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\">Sony<\/a> company &#8211; with plans to embark on personal projects once The Last Guardian was out.<\/p>\n<p>And now executive producer, Yoshifusa Hayama, has also jumped ship \u2013 to join Bossa Studios to work on social networking games for the likes of <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20155-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future of gaming is definitely online and thanks to recent developments with Flash 11, there is no reason why a social game can no longer be as visually stunning and as compelling as the big console titles,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s been confirmed that Ueda is still working on The Last Guardian \u2013 reportedly in a freelance capacity &#8211; Hayama is pretty much out of there.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Guardian was initially slotted for a \u201clate 2011\u201d release, but has now been delayed into 2012 \u2013 and while Sony aren\u2019t commenting on anything, it would appear that all is not well in the home of Team Ico.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-12-07-the-last-guardian-executive-producer-quits-sony\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29133\" title=\"The Last Guardian\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian.jpg 626w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-Guardian-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive producer leaves Sony to go make Facebook games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":29134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71,1475,1476],"class_list":["post-29132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-sony","tag-team-ico","tag-the-last-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29135,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29132\/revisions\/29135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}