Former Tales series brand manager and producer Hideo Baba is the new studio head, and is also the producer on “Project Prelude Rune.”
Baba had worked on Namco’s (later Bandai Namco Entertainment) Tales RPG series since the PlayStation 2 version of Tales of Destiny in 2006.
Square Enix announced on Tuesday that it has established Studio Istolia, a new Tokyo-based studio working on a new RPG project tentatively titled “Project Prelude Rune.”
His next game in the series, Tales of Innocence, saw him become the series’ producer until his last title in the series, 2015’s Tales of Zestiria.