Mobile

Discoverer Is An Unreal Engine-Powered iPhone Game From The Ex-Sonic Team At Prope

Former Sonic Team lead Yuji Naka and his Prope studio aren’t solely focused on bringing new fishing games to the Wii. They have plenty of iPhone and iPad projects under their belt, including the newly released, Unreal-powered Discoverer.


July 2, 2011
Nintendo

Ex-Sonic The Hedgehog Creator Now Has His Own Fishing Game

Yuji Naka, former head of Sonic Team where he was responsible for many Sonic the Hedgehog games, hasn’t given up on the Wii. He has a new fishing game, Family Fishing, in the works, complete with its own unique controller.


May 4, 2010
News

What Is Ivy The Kiwi? A New Game With A Sonic The Hedgehog Pedigree

Former Sonic the Hedgehog producer Yuji Naka has moved on from Sega to Prope, with his latest creation, Ivy the Kiwi?, coming to the Wii and Nintendo DS in a few months, courtesy of XSEED.


September 21, 2009
News

Let’s Tap (Your iPhone)

Let’s Tap, former Sega talisman Yuji Naka’s quirky Wii party game that involved…tapping things, is coming to the iPhone as a series of individual apps.


June 25, 2009

Let’s Tap Review: Rhythm Limbo

When former Sonic Team lead Yuji Naka left Sega to form the semi-independent Prope, he said the studio would focus on “original entertainment.” Prope’s first major release, Let’s Tap, is certainly original, packing five multiplayer focused mini-games into one title.


June 18, 2009
News

Let’s Tap Arrives, Sans Dedicated Tapping Peripheral

Sega and Prope’s Let’s Tap has shipped for the Wii, a mini-game compilation that requires players to lightly tap or firmly rap whatever surface the Wii Remote rests upon. Sadly, Sega did not provide North American consumers with cardboard boxes.


February 27, 2009
News

Let’s Tap! Soundtrack To Stay Japanese-y In America

Typically, when rhythm video games come across the pond, their poppy bubblegum Japanese soundtracks get amputated in favour of something more lowest common denominator. Not Sega’s Let’s Tap!, though. Its soundtrack is staying intact.


February 9, 2009
In Real Life

Sonic Creator Welcomes Your Boring Sonic Questions

Try asking Harrison Ford about Han Solo, and you’ll only get dirty looks. But ask Sonic programmer Yuji Naka (pictured) about working on Sonic the Hedgehog, and he’ll gladly cooperate…


February 5, 2009
News

Yuji Naka Wanted Sega To Stay In The Hardware Biz

Former Sonic Team head honcho Yuji Naka is a Dreamcast fanboy. And he was very much against Sega’s decision to bail on the hardware business, to kill off the Dreamcast, he says in a new interview.


December 30, 2008
News

Yuji Naka Explains Why He Left Sega, Created Let’s Tap

When Sonic the Hedgehog programmer and Nights creator Yuji Naka left Sega, we expected big things from his Prope studio. We got Let’s Tap instead. So why’d you leave Sega again, Mr. Naka?