Kirby Creator Leaves Company · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday August 6, 2003 @05:45AM from the morphs-into-new-position dept.

Thanks to Gamers.com for their news that Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Super Smash Brothers and the Kirby series, announced his departure from developer HAL Labs in his latest column for the Japanese magazine Famitsu Weekly. Although an independent developer, HAL Laboratory is tied very closely to Nintendo, but Sakurai said that "...his departure was entirely amicable, and he is leaving with the approval of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata." Going forward, it's confirmed that "HAL will continue to develop games starring Kirby, although the fate of the Smash Brothers franchise remains uncertain", according to Sakurai's column.

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Re:What ever happened to Tilt and Tumble? by hibiki_r · 2003-08-06 07:43 · Score: 3, Informative

Kirby's Tilt 'n Tumble just lost it's Kirby license (They didn't want to dilute the Kirby franchise, IIRC), and is now called Roll-O-Rama. The game has no release date in Japan, and hasn't been announced as an US or EU bound title AFAIK.