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Tango Gameworks

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Founded
2010
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51-200
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About Tango Gameworks

Tango Gameworks is a Tokyo-based video game developer creating original games for console and PC. Founded in March 2010 by Shinji Mikami, the studio built its reputation through survival horror before expanding into supernatural action-adventure and rhythm-action games. Its development capabilities span creative direction, game and level design, character and environment art, animation, gameplay programming, and console and PC engineering.

From survival horror to rhythm-action

The studio’s first major release, The Evil Within (2014), was directed by Mikami and followed by three downloadable expansions in 2015. John Johanas directed The Evil Within 2 (2017), continuing the studio’s work in third-person survival horror.

With Ghostwire: Tokyo (2022), directed by Kenji Kimura, Tango broadened its portfolio into supernatural action-adventure. The game subsequently received The Spider’s Thread expansion in 2023. The studio also developed the mobile dice-battle game Hero Dice, which operated during 2022.

In January 2023, Tango surprise-launched Hi-Fi RUSH, directed by Johanas. The rhythm-action game added a different creative direction to the studio’s catalogue, placing rhythm at the centre of its action gameplay. Its subsequent Arcade Challenge! Update! extended the original release with additional content.

Ownership and renewed operations

ZeniMax Media acquired the original business in October 2010. Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax in 2021 subsequently brought Tango into Xbox’s studio organisation. Microsoft closed the studio in June 2024, interrupting its operations.

KRAFTON acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi RUSH intellectual property in August 2024. The business resumed operations as Tango Gameworks Inc. in January 2025, continuing as an autonomous development subsidiary under KRAFTON.

The renewed studio is developing an unannounced action game and exploring future Hi-Fi RUSH projects. Its current production scope combines original intellectual property development with technical and artistic disciplines including real-time physics, skeletal animation, UI/UX design, and Unreal Engine development.

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Leadership

The report identifies Colin Mack as Studio Head, John Johanas as Creative Director, and Kazuaki Egashira as Development Director. Founder Shinji Mikami departed in February 2023 and subsequently established a separate studio.

Working model and studio identity

The company describes a hybrid model combining in-office work with working from home. On June 2, 2025, it unveiled refreshed branding and a new website, presenting its guiding philosophy as “a creative workshop making games with soul.”

Notable credits

10 credits
  • Hi-Fi RUSH
  • Hi-Fi RUSH: Arcade Challenge! Update!
  • Ghostwire: Tokyo
  • Ghostwire: Tokyo – The Spider's Thread
  • Hero Dice
  • The Evil Within 2
  • The Evil Within: The Executioner
  • The Evil Within: The Consequence
  • The Evil Within: The Assignment
  • The Evil Within

Offices

Where Tango Gameworks is based

1 location

  • Tokyo offices

    Headquarters
    Tokyo, Japan
    About this office

    **Tokyo Studio** Status: active Headquarters Address: Sumitomo Fudosan Mita First Building 6F, 4-2-8 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023, Japan Office webpage: https://tangogameworks.com/careers/ Opened: 2025 Overall headquarters and primary development studio housing creative direction, programming, game design, art, animation and production teams. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Opened: 2010 Historical founding location in Odaiba. The report does not establish its street address or the year the studio left these premises.

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