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Housemarque may have quit the arcade, but it has plenty of thoughts to share about the genre’s evolution. “I think the best arcade designer right now is Martin Jonasson from Grapefrukt, the guy who did Rymdkapsel,” Mikael Haveri says. “His new game, it’s basically a very simplified Arkanoid. That’s something we never tried to do; we could have, but we never tried to do something that mobile-centred. I think that we’re at home with the controller. If the same people started a new company now, it would be for [smaller games], but still very high-action, very controller-centric.” It’s worth noting that shoot-’emups specifically have experienced a modest revival on Switch. Housemarque has yet to confirm whether it will port any of its own games to the console.