Hideo Baba

 ( Bandai Namco Holdings ) 

Baba Hideo is a Japanese video game producer and president of the game development company, Studio Istolia. He formerly worked at Namco Bandai Studios where he was hired by them before their merge to be primarily involved with the production of the Tales of video games. He joined Namco in 2001. From Tales of Innocence (2007), he was the brand manager and the producer of the Tales of video game series.

On February 21, 2017, Square Enix announced the formation of a new development studio, Studio Istolia, with Baba the president of the studio and producer of its first game Project Prelude Rune. In April 5, 2019 it was announced that Hideo Baba had resigned from Square Enix and Studio Istolia due to a change in management policies.

• Death by Degrees PS2 (January 27, 2005) — production manager
• Tales of Destiny PS2 (November 30, 2006) — director
• Tales of Innocence DS (December 6, 2007) — producer
• Tales of Destiny - Director's Cut PS2 (January 31, 2008) — producer
• Wii (June 26, 2008) - production supervisor
• Tales of Vesperia X360 (August 7, 2008) — brand manager
• Eternal Sonata PS3 (September 18, 2008) — producer
• Tales of Hearts DS (December 18, 2008) — producer
• PSP (January 29, 2009) — producer
• Tales of VS PSP (August 6, 2009) — producer
• DS (October 8, 2009) — producer
• Tales of Graces Wii (December 10, 2009) — producer
• Tales of Graces F PS3 (December 2, 2010) — producer
• Tales of Xillia PS3 (September 8, 2011) — producer
• PSP (February 2, 2012) — Special Thanks
• Tales of Xillia 2 PS3 (November 1, 2012) — producer
• Tales of Zestiria PS3 (2015) — producer
• Project Prelude Rune PS4 (Cancelled) — producer