"Legendary Mega Man artist Keiji Inafune launched his own independent studio in 2010 after leaving Capcom following the cancelation of Mega Man Legends 3. It was called Comcept and one of its early projects was a spiritual successor to Mega Man called . It was a 2D action platformer that relied on Kickstarter backing and ended up being a disaster both as a game and in terms of the promise of crowdfunding."
"Comcept was eventually acquired by Level-5 in 2017. In 2024, the company announced Inafune had departed amid a reboot of life sim RPG Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. Oversight of the project shifted back to Level-5 Osaka Office. It came out last summer and was very good. But the last trace of Inafune's legacy there is no more. The final, official dissolution of what remained of the studio was announced this week."
"The Minecraft clone that has early players importing all sorts of wild modes and creations is promising a rapid update pipeline to help the Early Access release grow and iterate quickly while still experimenting. "Going forward, we'll use the pre-release patchline to be a bit more adventurous," Simon Collins-Laflamme wrote on X. "It will be updated weekly and may be unstable by design; this is where new features, larger changes, and iterations happen."
Keiji Inafune's Comcept studio, launched in 2010 after his departure from Capcom, has been officially dissolved following a failed Kickstarter spiritual successor to Mega Man and a later acquisition by Level-5. Level-5 resumed oversight of related projects and released a praised Fantasy Life reboot last summer, removing the last trace of Inafune's legacy. Hytale plans an adventurous, rapid pre-release patchline with frequent weekly updates to iterate and experiment during Early Access. Other industry moves include Blizzard preparing major World of Warcraft plans for 2026, Diablo veterans forming a separate ARPG project, and crossover content appearing in Rainbow Six Siege.
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