Tokyo — The co-creator of traditional online game sequence Sonic the Hedgehog has been arrested for alleged insider buying and selling, in response to public prosecutors in Tokyo. Yuji Naka, a 57-year-old programmer recognized for making Sonic and different main titles at Japanese sport agency Sega, was arrested on Friday, a prosecution doc obtained by AFP stated.
His alleged misdeed befell almost three years in the past, when Naka was an worker at "Last Fantasy" creator Sq. Enix, the Tokyo District Prosecutors Workplace doc stated.
Naka is accused of shopping for shares in one other sport firm, Aiming, when he knew they have been going to launch a brand new title collectively developed with Sq. Enix.
He bought 10,000 shares in Aiming for two.8 million yen ($20,000) in January 2020, in response to the doc, and the brand new sport was introduced the next month.
Prosecutors on Thursday arrested two different former Sq. Enix workers, additionally for alleged insider buying and selling linked to Aiming.
Naka was not instantly reachable for remark, however his followers expressed shock and disappointment on social media.
"Please inform me this is not true. He introduced Sonic to life... I am so unhappy," one Twitter consumer wrote.
"He labored on many nice video games. So disappointing," stated one other.
On the web site of the sport studio that Naka based known as Prope, the programmer says he needed to create "video games that shock and entertain kids around the globe".