is a Japanese video game producer. A former employee of Capcom, he is the founder of GPTRACK50, a subsidiary studio of NetEase.
Career Kobayashi studied computer science at Chukyo University. After graduating, he joined Capcom in 1995 and worked on the first Resident Evil game as a programmer. After working as programmer on the sequel and a planner on the first Dino Crisis game, his first producer role was on Dino Crisis 2 in 2000.
Starting with the first Sengoku Basara game (titled Devil Kings in North America) in 2005, Kobayashi worked as the producer for the video game series as well as a planning supervisor for the various anime adaptations. He was very interested in the Sengoku period and wanted to create an action game inspired by that period.
After twenty seven years, Kobayashi left Capcom in March 2022 and announced that he joined NetEase in August of that same year.
Kobayashi established the company GPTRACK50 in October 2022. He worked on a zombie role-playing video game Stupid Never Dies, which will be released for PlayStation 5 and Steam on October 21, 2026.
Works Video games Year Title Role 1996 Resident Evil Programmer 1998 Resident Evil 2 1999 Dino Crisis Planner 2000 Dino Crisis 2 Producer 2001 Resident Evil – Code: Veronica X Associate producer Devil May Cry Producer 2002 Resident Evil Resident Evil Zero Promotional producer 2003 P.N.03 Producer Dino Crisis 3 2004 Under the Skin 2005 Resident Evil 4 Killer7 Devil Kings 2006 Sengoku Basara 2 2007 Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes 2008 Devil May Cry 4 Sengoku Basara X 2009 Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes 2010 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes 2011 Sengoku Basara Chronicle Heroes 2012 Dragon's Dogma Resident Evil 6Executive producer 2013 Gaist Crusher 2014 Sengoku Basara 4 2015Dragon's Dogma Online 2018 Mega Man 11 2026 Stupid Never Dies
Anime Year Title Role 2007 Devil May Cry: The Animated Series Supervisor 2008 Resident Evil: Degeneration Producer 2009 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings Planning supervisor 2010 Sengoku Basara II 2011 Sengoku Basara: The Last Party 2012 Resident Evil: Damnation Producer 2014 Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement Planning supervisor 2017 Resident Evil: Vendetta Supervisor 2020 Dragon's DogmaProducer 2021 Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Executive producer
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