The WarioWare IP director left Nintendo in February
, by Thibaut
Goro Abe, who worked on several installments of the Wario saga, specifically WarioWare, has confirmed his departure from Nintendo on X. The 50-year-old spent 26 years with the company.
Abe also confirmed his intention to leave the video game industry as a developer. He will become a professor at Osaka Electro-Communication University.
"I resigned from Nintendo at the end of February. Starting in April, I will work as a professor at Osaka Electro-Communication University.
I will be part of the new program dedicated to game design and social technologies. I plan to devote myself to research on games and their development, and I hope to interact with a wider audience and in more varied ways than before."
Goro Abe served as director on all games in the WarioWare franchise. His career began in 1999 as a programmer on Wario Land 4.