Some really sad news one of my fav devs just shut down Game republic

The official website is offline http://www.gamerepublic.jp/

And they have a "For Rent" sign in the window.

RIP GameRepublic

The founder of Game Republic Yoshiki Okamoto the creator of 1942SonSonStreet Fighter IIFinal FightTime Pilot andGyruss

Dude that sucks, I enjoyed Folklore.

That's sad, enjoyed Folklore a great deal actually.

Daw. I liked the games they made. Sad day :(

Majin was an awesome game.

That's not good news but I guess nobody bought their games. The Majin game looked very charming though.

Folklore was really great, would've loved to see a sequel.

Two great games! :(

@YoungFrey said:

Is there a more overlooked PS3 exclusive than Folklore? I only learned about it a few months ago.

No

@TheMustacheHero said:

Majin was an awesome game.

Yeah it was fucking awesome and it was a pretty long game too

Not nice to see. Especially when they made some well appreciated games.

good games, but far from great. either way this is sad news. both games where different, and that's a good thing unless you want to sell a lot.

@nnotdead said:

good games, but far from great. either way this is sad news. both games where different, and that's a good thing unless you want to sell a lot.

Far from great? majin was an easy 8/10

I wonder why GB have not reported on this?

That's a shame. Folklore and Majin were deceptively good and not a lot of people played them.

Well, it seems like nobody played Knights Contract. So I'm guessing that had something to do with it.

@benjaebe said:

That's a shame. Folklore and Majin were deceptively good and not a lot of people played them.

Yeah they have had pretty poor sales their latest game called knights contract (witch was decent) sold under 20k on both 360 and ps3

sad
folklore was amazing and looking at their wikipage i see they also made Brave Story, another fantastic game 
:(

@cazamalos: Yeah that game was dope

Can't say I enjoyed their games a whole lot but good people losing jobs is never cool. Hope they land on their feet.

@EuanDewar: Yeah there where some really good people there

the CEO Yoshiki Okamoto is the creator of street fighter 2 GyrussTime Pilot and1942

sad to see his company go under really really liked majin and folklore

Never played any of their games, but they both looked interesting. I wish those guys the best of luck.

Enjoyed the Folklore demo and was thinking of picking it up this summer.

@X19: You should its a great game

also if you like zelda i would highly recomend Majin its a great game

@X19: Yeah Majin is not for everybody

but folklore is pretty awesome

you don't have to respond to every person who posts dude

always sad when a dev shuts down

@Laketown said:

you don't have to respond to every person who posts dude

Sorry

Thats really sad i fucking love majin one of my favorite games on the 360

So sad when a developer shuts down. What a shame, they did make some great games, but they never got the exposure they deserved.  It also appears that Okamoto is nowhere t be found, his blog went offline suddenly a few weeks ago. Hope he's OK.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I absolutely loved Folklore.