Katsuhiro Harada, a Namco Bandai Games producer who is best known for the Tekken series, is reportedly missing. According to a tweet that was supposedly sent out by the Tekken Project support team, Harada has been missing from office for a week so far. The team says it’s still searching for him. If he really is missing, we hope that Harada is found safe and sound. The tweet sent out by the team – via Harada’s Twitter account – can be read below:
*This is TEKKEN Project support team*Mr.Harada has been missing from office since a week ago. We are still searching for him. Thanks.
— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) June 5, 2013
Update from the Tekken team: There appear to be some news articles worrying for Harada-san’s safety. However, we were able to confirm he has been logged into Steam daily, so we believe he is OK, but just has not shown up for work.
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my guess e3 gimmick
That would be a terrible ploy. :(
My guess is dumbass trolls will come and state that he suicided due to bad sales of Tag Tournament 2 on Wii U.
The more dumbass would be the one commiting suicide over work or anything else below a life…
So… Your average Japanese?
I wouldn’t call it that but they have the highest suicide count…
Or one of the highest…
My guess is that sum stuck up retard is gonna state “nut nuntenduh neews!!”
exactly its a e3 pr stunt, they are trying to think out side the box like kojima does, maybe the part where they say he has been logging into steam but not going work is because they are releasing something on steam on pc, who knows! its just a stupid idea lol
blame capcom
Blame Canada!
Oh God I hope he’s okay
This is distressing news indeed. Hope they find him :/
not sure if trolling or real
Sad to hear
Is it bad that i’m laughing hysterically at this?
Yes.
Don’t be so sanctimonious
Don’t be so presumptuous.
Buuurn
i will never understand japanese jokes…
Hahaha, good one!
I reckon it’s a joke.
I tekken it’s not a joke.
sounds terrible, like something out of a movie. Im surprised more folks arent asking if pikachu from super smash bros is ok…lbs
Nice penis.
Man, I hate to hear news like that. Even if Im not the biggest tekken fan.
I hope nothings bad !
Damn, hope its an E3 ploy or something like muyricosuave said.
He’s obviously trapped inside one of his video games.
XD wtf
Right, like any of us are going to find the guy.XD
My theories:
1. E3 scam
2. Suicide
3. Depressed
4. Kidnapped by the Xbots
5. Kidnapped by the Electrons
6. A stupid joke
3 is the most logical.
personalyif you people realy think hes missing you guys need a head check it is a joke or they would have posted more about it. and not something so vague
Hope that he is ok and that nothing serious happens, but at the same time I hope this isn’t something that has to do with e3 or anything.
Hmm…
If this is an E3 trick then it isn’t in very good taste.
I hope he is ok.
Guys! Guys!
Look at those shades.
He OBVIOUSLY went back to the other side of The Matrix.
It’s amazing how lightly people are taking this, I’m assuming there’s something that I’m missing that causes people to see this as a joke… Otherwise fuck you guys.
It would be a whole other story if it wasn’t right up the E3 alley…
And neither of us has a reason to overreact either even though it’s tragic that if something indeed happened to him…
Well, a few reasons:
1: This very well could be a joke.
2: There’s nothing we can do about things in any case.
3: It’s better than being depressed over it so long as the jokes don’t go too far.
http://game-flush.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/mario_is_missing.cover_.front_.jpg
Wtf ^ xD
That sucks if he’s legitimately missing, hopefully he turns up, but i really wana make a on disc DLC joke about SF X Tekken, hidden characters.
This is 1 of two things. To build up hype for E3…if so terrible plan. 2nd he is actually missing. If so this is terrible news. We will find out next week. If he isnt at E3 there theres a big issue here.
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hope he’s okay and will be found
New Tweet from them.
There appear to be some news articles worrying for Harada-san’s safety However, we were able to confirm he has been logged into Steam daily, so we believe he is OK, but just has not shown up for work.
So….he’s blowing off work, playing hookie for some game time. Who hasn’t done that once or twice?
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Maybe he went on a Pokémon journey, or he’s studying to be the world’s greatest hide-&-seek champion. But seriously though, I hope he’s ok.
i was thinking the same thing!!!
Maybe…
The Mishima Zaibatsu is REAL. And the real Heihachi Mishima took Hirai because he used his character.
D: I hope this means Harada is a confirmed character for TxSF
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How is his Steam account being accessed any indication of anything? Steam launches on boot by default, so all that means is that someone’s been on his computer every day, not necessarily him.
Because it shows him launching and playing games.
I’m friends with him on Steam and he’s been playing Civilization V and XCOM all day.
He was tequila.
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