Q-Games
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Q-Games Ltd.
Research & Development
Miscellaneous
Shareholders Dylan Cuthbert President/Managing Director Dylan was born in Harold Wood, England. He began programming professionally at age 17 for Argonaut Software Ltd. (now Argonaut Games PLC). Then, via a contract between Argonaut and Nintendo of Kyoto, Japan. Dylan developed a no. of revolutionary 3d titles such as X for the Gameboy, and Starfox for the Super-Nintendo. He also developed the un-released Starfox 2 for the Super-Nintendo. Afterwards, he began developing for Playstation by joining Sony Computer Entertainment America at their HQ in Foster City, California. During his stay in America he developed the 3D science fiction action hero title "Blasto" before transferring to Sony Japan and moving to Tokyo. At Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. he jumped onto the fast-track of Playstation 2 development and 
created the famous duck-in-a-bath technical demonstration that received worldwide
attention during the Playstation 2's launch. Here is an
interview (japanese only) conducted by B-ing, a major recruitment/employment
magazine in Japan.Following hot on the heels of the technical demo, Dylan developed "Piposaru 2001", a quasi-sequel to "Ape Escape" which was released by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in July 2001. In August of 2001 Dylan founded Q-Games in Kyoto, Japan. Kentaro YOSHIDA (Japan) / Studio Director Started work at Sega Co Ltd. as a graphic designer. Involved in the development of the Panzer Dragoon series for the Sega Saturn. After leaving Sega for Sony Computer Entertainment, Yoshida worked with Dylan on the 'Rubber Duck' demo for the PlayStation 2 and was involved in the primary round of game development for that console. After leaving SCE, Yoshida worked as a freelance CG artist on the development of Panzer Dragoon Orta for the XBox. In 2005 Yoshida joined the Microsoft Xbox Business Division in Japan and was responsible for game development and publishing projects until he joined the Q-Games team in 2007. Involved in the development of Kenji no Kotoba, a PlayStation 2 game released in Oct 2001 Involved in the development of Panzer Dragoon Orta, an Xbox game released in Dec 2002 Joined Q-Games as Studio Director June 2007 Company History |
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