Ken Kutaragi Tells UEC Students to Never Lose Their Curiosity
A center that treats game production as cross-disciplinary research, opened with the PlayStation's lead architect on stage, gives UEC a formal pipeline from student projects to industry, at a time when the people who built the current console generation are being asked to hand the craft to the next one.
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The University of Electro-Communications held an opening ceremony on September 29 for CEREC, a research and education center built around games. Ken Kutaragi, who led development of the original PlayStation and is now a special visiting professor at UEC, joined UEC president Masakazu Muramatsu for a panel discussion and told young people who will make games to never lose their curiosity.
The University of Electro-Communications opened CEREC, a research and education hub centered on games, with a ceremony on September 29. Associate Professor Takuya Nojima, the center's director, said its keyword is the ability to see a vision of moving people through to completion: not stopping at thinking about entertainment that moves people, but finishing it as a work.
CEREC divides its education into Learn, Make, and Show. Students take corporate-collaboration project-based learning, including a three-day game build held in August, and four student works were exhibited at Tokyo Game Show 2026. Ken Kutaragi, who led development of the original PlayStation, took the stage with UEC president Masakazu Muramatsu for a panel discussion.
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