The founder and chairman of acclaimed Japanese game developer Nihon Falcom, Masayuki Kato, has reportedly died at the age of 78 on December 15, leaving behind a storied legacy in the role-playing game genre. Kato was not only the founder of the company, he served as the active chairman of Nihon Falcom developer's board of directors up until the time of his death.
Falcom is the studio behind hit JRPG franchises like The Legend of Heroes series and is one of the oldest in the industry, having begun in 1981 as a producer of Japanese personal computer video games. The company is known for its work in the action RPG genre, publishing a wide variety of video games in the 1980s before it went on to become an independent developer of its own.
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News of the death of Nihon Falcom's founder, Masayuki Kato, surfaced via a Japanese blog post on the company's official website honoring the late chairman along with a slight restructure underway to make up for...
