Fans af Capcoms mange hæsblæsende eventyr kender godt Noboru Sugimura, der er manden bag manuskriptet til både Onimusha-serien, Resident Evil 2 og Clock Tower. Han var også en af de ledende kræfter bag det nyopstartede Flagship Studio, der i 1997 løsrev sig fra Capcom. Han døde d. 25. februar.
Yoshiki Okamoto, der i dag er chef for det nyopstartede Game Republic, sagde følgende om sin kollegas død i en online-blog:
"I was very surprised by the news. He was an extremely energetic person, and I thought that he would live a lot longer than me. When we stumbled on the storyline for Resident Evil 2, I was introduced to a scriptwriter who was a real fan of the first installment. And that was Sugimura. As you may know, our encounter lead to the establishment of Flagship, which functions as a pipeline between the video game industry and scriptwriters."
Det var meningen at Sugimura-san skulle have skrevet manuskriptet til et kommende Game Republic-projekt, men det kommer altså ikke til at ske nu. Noburu Sugimura levede fra 1948 til 2005.