Kotaro Uchikoshi, the creator behind IP resembling Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Information, has launched a brand new improvement studio referred to as Crash Keys and is serving as its consultant director and CEO.
It is early days but (form of – preserve studying), however the studio is seeking to create authentic initiatives “unbound by typical formulation” and is at the moment searching for funding companions to assist convey its imaginative and prescient to life. Uchikoshi-san additionally co-founded Too Kyo Video games alongside Kazutaka Kodaka, co-directing titles resembling World’s Finish Membership and The Hundred Line – Final Protection Academy.
We suspect, then, that he will not have an excessive amount of hassle securing funding for his future initiatives, however then it is laborious to foretell something nowadays.
Here is a have a look at the studio’s official tagline from the PR launch:
Some locks can solely be opened with damaged keys.
All creation begins with destruction.
Crash your rusty outdated keys. Past the door lies a world but unseen.
We’re CRASH KEYS. Shattering conventions to unlock the unknown.
Uchikoshi has, nonetheless, taken to X to debate the announcement additional, stating that the studio was truly shaped in March 2025, with the crew engaged on a brand new recreation for roughly a 12 months and a half earlier than it was unceremoniously cancelled.
He reiterates the request for funding, stating “at this fee, our firm may actually CRASH into one million items”. We want all the perfect to Kotaro Uchikoshi and the crew at Crash Keys, and we sincerely hope it is ready to safe a stable undertaking within the close to future.