We still don’t know much about Hyrule Warriors (Princess Zelda gets kidnapped again is about it), but it looks like Nintendo and Tecmo Koei have built an all-star team to develop it.
Omega Force, Tecmo Koei’s internal team that’s assigned to the Dynasty Warriors series, is handling the bulk of the game’s development. But according to the latest issue of Famitsu (via Siliconera), Team Ninja’s Hisashi Koinuma and Yosuke Hayasahi will also be involved in the game’s creation as producers. Hayashi has been the driving force behind the Ninja Gaiden series since Tomonobu Itagaki left Team Ninja in 2008 as well as one of the producer of Metroid: Other M. And as expected, Eiji Aonuma, the Series Producer of the Zelda franchise at Nintendo, is supervising the development of Hyrule Warriors to ensure it lives up to the Zelda name.
Hyrule Warriors (which is known as Zelda Unrivaled in Japan) will be released in Japan on August 14. The game will also be released in North America and Europe by the end of the year.
