{"id":35543,"date":"2012-04-05T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35543"},"modified":"2012-04-05T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:27:34","slug":"sonic-co-creator-joins-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35543-sonic-co-creator-joins-nintendo","title":{"rendered":"Sonic co-creator joins Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic co-creator, Hirokazu Yasuhara, has joined Nintendo. He will work at the firm&#8217;s Nintendo Software Technology studio in Redmond, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Yasuhara, and fellow co-creator Yuji Naka, previously worked on projects at SEGA, including the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Mega-drive and Saturn console production and designs.<\/p>\n<p>He later worked with Naughty Dog as a game designer for Jak &amp; Daxter and Uncharted.<\/p>\n<p>His last project was creating Wii title Pac-Man Party at Namco Bandai for the franchise&#8217;s 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/168016\/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_cocreator_Hirokazu_Yasuhara_joins_Nintendo.php\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35181-sega-is-sacking-employees-and-binning-titles-in-the-western-market.html\">\u00a0Sega is sacking employees and binning titles in the Western market<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/14628-sonic-generations-confirmed-for-pc.html\">Sonic Generations confirmed for PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/33254-jak-and-daxter-collection-review-ps3.html\">Jak &amp; Daxter Collection review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time game designer joins once-rival firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":35545,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3249,73,1109,3248,3247],"class_list":["post-35543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-hirokazu-yasuhara","tag-nintendo","tag-sega","tag-sonic-co-creator","tag-sonic-creator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35558,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543\/revisions\/35558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}