Japanese developer Ikumi Nakamura, known for her work on Kemuri, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and The Evil Within, has one of the most prominent careers in the gaming industry and, most specifically, within the horror genre. She became a viral sensation having presented a trailer for Ghostwire: Tokyo at E3 2019 and showing her work at Tango Gameworks. However, Nakamura began her work long before, having started as a background production artist for Okami at Clover Studios. Later on, with the closure of Clover and the start of PlatinumGames, the developer worked as a concept artist for the reputable Bayonetta.

Nakamura’s name had been tightly linked to Hideki Kamiya having worked with him at Clover and PlatinumGames, and then she became an apprentice to Shinji Mikami, the creator of the Resident Evil series as they worked together on The Evil Within at Tango Gameworks. In 2021, Ikumi Nakamura announced that she had started her own studio,...