Who currently owns the video game development company that co-developed Xenosaga: Pied Piper, along side Namco Mobile and Tom Create?
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Xenosaga: Pied Piper Xenosaga: Pied Piper is a role-playing video game co-developed by Monolith Soft, Namco Mobile and Tom Create. The game was published by Namco in 2004 for mobile devices. A spin-off of the "Xenosaga" trilogy and forming part of the "Xeno" metaseries, the storyline follows the human life of cyborg Ziggurat 8—a key character in the "Xenosaga" trilogy—a century before the events of "Xenosaga Episode I". Gameplay follows a similar system to the mainline "Xenosaga" games but adjusted for mobile devices.
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Monolith Soft Monolith Soft, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社モノリスソフト , Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Monorisu Sofuto ) is a Japanese video game development company. It was originally owned by Namco (later Namco Bandai) and currently owned by Nintendo. The company was founded in 1999 by Tetsuya Takahashi with the support and cooperation of Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco in order to develop the "Xenosaga" series, a spiritual successor to the Square-developed "Xenogears". Multiple Square staff would join Takahashi at Monolith Soft including Hirohide Sugiura and Yasuyuki Honne.
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Atooi (company) Atooi LLC is a video game development company that was founded in 2015 by Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham. He founded the company as a side project for the development of games for mobile devices. The first game of the studio was "Totes the Goat", which released for iOS in late 2015. After Renegade Kid's closure, Watsham decided to use Atooi for the development of not only mobile games, but also games for consoles. Atooi got ownership of Renegade Kid's 2D IP, including "Mutant Mudds", "Xeodrifter", "Bomb Monkey" and "Treasurenauts". Atooi's most recent game, the platformer "Chicken Wiggle", was digitally released in 2017 for the Nintendo 3DS and iOS devices.
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Sunrise Interactive Sunrise Interactive, Inc. (株式会社サンライズインタラクティブ , Kabushiki-gaisha Sanraizu Intarakutibu ) was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in 1998 as a subsidiary of
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Tomonobu Itagaki Tomonobu Itagaki (板垣 伴信 , Itagaki Tomonobu ) (born April 1, 1967) is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the "Dead or Alive" series and also reviving the "Ninja Gaiden" franchise in 2004. Joining Tecmo in 1992, Itagaki produced two video game franchises that were commercial successes and earned him several promotions; he headed Tecmo's development team, Team Ninja, and sat on the executive board. He left the company after 16 years of service, filing a lawsuit against it for withholding bonus pay. His new team at Valhalla Game Studios, comprising other Team Ninja members, worked on a new game, "Devil's Third".
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Soedesco Soedesco (stylized as SOEDESCO) is a Dutch video game publisher based in Rotterdam established in 2001. Originally focused on creating accessory and game bundles, in 2014 the company expanded its business to include retail game publishing for indie game titles for the European and North American markets. Most of the games published by Soedesco are developed by independent European-based developer studios.
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Triangle Studios Triangle Studios is a mid-sized computer game development company based in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, founded in 2005. It has developed several games for the PC, the Nintendo DS and iOS and is currently working on a major game for the PlayStation 3 (among other consoles). On March 2, 2010, the company opened a new branch office in Dallas, Texas. They participated in the Tokyo Game Show in 2008 as a part of the Holland Pavilion, in order to establish connections with Japanese publishers and enter the Asian gaming market.
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Sora Ltd. Sora Ltd. (有限会社ソラ , Yūgen kaisha sora ) is a Japanese video game developer founded by Masahiro Sakurai, a former employee of HAL Laboratory. The company was notable for developing "Super Smash Bros." video games and "Meteos". Its division, Project Sora, developed "".
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The Bitmap Brothers The Bitmap Brothers are a UK based video game developer founded in 1987. The company entered the industry in 1988 with the scrolling shooter "Xenon". They quickly followed with "Speedball". Prior to becoming the publisher of their own games (under Renegade Software), early Bitmap Brothers titles were distributed by Image Works and Konami.
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Niantic (company) Niantic, Inc. is an American software development company based in San Francisco, which is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games "Ingress" and "Pokémon Go". The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 by Keyhole, Inc. founder John Hanke as an internal startup within Google. The company later became an independent entity in October 2015.
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King (company) King Digital Entertainment plc, doing business as King, is a social games development company. King develops games for the web, for mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), Facebook, and Windows 10. King gained fame after releasing the cross-platform title "Candy Crush Saga" in 2012, considered the first successful game utilizing the freemium model. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard in February 2016 for $5.9 billion, and operates as its own entity within that company.
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Massive Entertainment Ubisoft Entertainment Sweden AB, doing business as Massive Entertainment, is a Swedish video game developer based in Malmö, Sweden. The company has been fully owned by Ubisoft since 2008. The studio is known for "Ground Control", "World in Conflict", and their latest title "Tom Clancy's The Division".
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Zynga Zynga is an American video game developer running social video game services founded in July 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops social games that work stand-alone on mobile phone platforms such as Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone and on the Internet through its website, Zynga.com, and social networking websites such as Facebook, Google+, and Tencent QQ. Zynga states its mission as "connecting the world through games." The company was named in honor of Zinga, CEO Mark Pincus' deceased American bulldog.
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Media Create Media Create (株式会社メディアクリエイト , Kabushiki Gaisha Media Kurieito ) is a Japanese company that gathers and analyzes data from the digital entertainment industry, specifically focusing on the Japanese console gaming market. Business operations include publishing, market research and consulting. It is a popular website for people interested in learning the latest video game software and hardware sales figures from Japan.
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Mobile21 Mobile21 Co., Ltd. (モバイルニジュウイチ株式会社) was a Japanese video game developer that was a 50/50 joint venture between Nintendo and Konami established on October 7, 1999. Mobile21 primarily concentrated on next-generation Game Boy Advance development, with a particular interest in mobile phone linking features.
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PikPok PikPok is a mobile game development studio and publisher based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded as a subsidiary brand of the game developer Sidhe, focusing on mobile and handheld games. Since 2012, PikPok has been the company's primary brand.
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Ghostlight Ghostlight is a British multi-platform video game publisher based in the United Kingdom, established as a subsidiary of Midas Interactive Entertainment in 2004. The company primarily brings Japanese titles to the European market.
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Dhruva Interactive Dhruva Interactive is a game development company in India, providing game development and art production services to the global gaming industry. It was founded in 1997 by K. Rajesh. Dhruva's development history includes various platforms and genres across consoles on social/casual and mobile devices in serving marquee global clients - big and small.
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Square Enix Montreal Square Enix Montreal is a Montreal-based studio under video game developer Square Enix best known for creating the "Go" series of turn-based puzzle games for smartphones and tablets based on former Eidos Interactive intellectual properties. Founded in November 2011 as a traditional studio with plans to create a new "Hitman" series game for consoles and employ several hundred people, its mandate changed in 2013 when it became its parent company's choice studio to produce mobile games, beginning with the "Hitman" franchise. The company developed prototypes for two mobile "Hitman" games, which became the board game-inspired puzzle game "Hitman Go" (2014) and the shooter "" (2015). The commercial success of the latter and the critical success of the former led to two additional titles in the "Go" series: "Lara Croft Go" (2015), based on the "Tomb Raider" series, and "Deus Ex Go" (2016), based on the "Deus Ex" series.
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Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment Software) is a French video game publisher, headquartered in Rennes, France. It is known for publishing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including "Assassin's Creed", "Far Cry", "Just Dance", "Prince of Persia", "Rayman", and "Tom Clancy's". It is the fourth largest publicly-traded game company in the Americas and Europe after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive in terms of revenue and market capitalization.
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Creative Mobile Creative Mobile is an independent video game developer and publisher based in Tallinn, Estonia.
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PlatinumGames PlatinumGames Inc. (プラチナゲームズ株式会社 , Purachina Gēmuzu Kabushiki Gaisha ) is a Japanese video game development company. The company was founded in October 2007, as result of the merger between Seeds Inc. and Odd Inc. The following year, video game publisher Sega announced that it would be publishing four unique properties developed by the company, which included "MadWorld", "Infinite Space", "Bayonetta", and "Vanquish". Their partnership later extended to include "Anarchy Reigns". However, none of these were a commercial success, even though most of them received high critical praise.