Cygames
 | |
Native name | 株式会社Cygames |
|---|---|
Romanized name | Kabushiki Gaisha Sai Gēmuzu |
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | May 2011 |
| Headquarters | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Koichi Watanabe (President) |
| Owner | |
Number of employees | 1,597 (2017) |
| Parent | CyberAgent |
| Subsidiaries |
CyDesignation Cymusic CygamesPictures BlazeGames GameJeans WithEntertainment Citail Osaka Cygames Kusanagi LogicLinks[1] |
| Website |
cygames |
Cygames, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社Cygames Hepburn: Kabushiki Gaisha Sai Gēmuzu) is a Japanese video game development studio established in 2011 by CyberAgent. Mobile and E-commerce company DeNA acquired a 24% stake in the studio in 2012. From foundation the company produced mobile games, initially on the Mobage platform, and from 2013 on Android and iOS.
Key IPs include Rage of Bahamut (2011), The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls (2011, with Bandai Namco), Granblue Fantasy (2014), and Shadowverse (2016). The company began development of console games in 2015. In 2016 Cygames announced the establishment of an anime studio CygamesPictures.
History
Cygames, Inc. was established in 2011 by CyberAgent,[2] a Japanese web services company. In 2012, DeNA purchased a 24% stake in Cygames.[3] Shortly thereafter, the studio was chosen by Gamasutra as one of the top 10 game developers of the year.[4]
In June 2012 Cygames founded CyDesignation, a company specialized in Design, Illustration, Game planning and Game development. [5][1]
In March 2016, Cygames announced the establishment of its own anime production division and anime studio as a subsidiary known as CygamesPictures to do planning, production and animation both for Cygames own IPs and original anime projects as well. [6][7]
In June 2016, Cygames announced the acquisition of the Gaming and Anime background studio Kusanagi. [8]
In 2016, Cygames announced that it was developing Project Awakening, its first large-format title for consoles[9] as well as the establishment of their Osaka studio focused on console games. [10]
In May 2017, Cygames and Kodansha announced that they formed a partnership to launch a new label called Cycomi. The new label is made for a print release in volumes distributed by Kodansha for the manga already published online by Cygames in its own site also called Cycomi like the ones based on their property but also completely new ones.
In 2017, Cygames founded its esports team, Cygames Beast, with Street Fighter players Daigo Umehara, Snake Eyez, and PR Balrog.[11][12] Since July 2017, Cygames is an official sponsor of Juventus Football Club. In April 2018 a partnership with Nintendo was announced to develop the game Dragalia Lost, for the purpose of facilitating the partnership Nintendo will obtain approximately 5 percent of Cygames’s issued stocks.[13]
In May 2018, Cygames announced the establishment of a subsidiary for music production and artist management called Cymusic. [14]
Games developed
Mobile/web browser games
| Title | Original release date | Publisher(s) | Platforms | JP | WW | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rage of Bahamut |
|
|
mobage | Yes | Closed | |
| The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
(Co-developed with Bandai Namco Studios) |
|
mobage, AndApp | Yes | No | ||
| Saint Seiya Galaxy Card Battle
(Co-developed with DeNA) |
|
mobage | Yes | No | ||
| Disney Fantasy Quest
(Co-developed with DeNA) |
|
mobage | Yes | No | ||
| Super Sentai Heroes |
|
mobage | Yes | No | ||
| Battle Spirits: Hasha no Houkou |
|
mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed | |
| Sakatsuku S World Stars |
|
mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed | |
| Rekka no Honoo BURNING EVOLUTION
(Co-developed with Shogakukan) |
|
|
mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| TIGER & BUNNY Lord of Hero |
|
mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed | |
| Sangokushi Puzzle Taisen |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Knights of Glory[15] |
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|
mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| La Rudiaia Chronicle |
|
|
mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light |
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | ||
| Granblue Fantasy |
|
|
mobage, AndApp, GREE, DMM Games, Yahoo! Games, Android, iOS | Yes | No* | |
| Battle Champs
(JP: Little Noah, Developed by Blaze Games) |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | Yes | |
| LINE Paper Dash World |
|
LINE GAME | Yes | No | Servers closed | |
| The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage
(Co-developed with Bandai Namco Studios) |
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | ||
| Rabitobi
(Developed by SHITEIRU) |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Princess Connect!
(Co-developed with CyberAgent) |
|
|
Ameba | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Kindai Mahjong All Stars Touhaiden
(Co-developed with Takeshobo) |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Shadowverse |
|
|
Android, iOS, DMM Games, Steam | Yes | Yes | |
| Sevens Story
(Co-developed with WithEntertainment Inc) |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
| Odin Crown[16]
(Co-developed with GameJeans, CyDesignation) |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
| Princess Connect! Re:Dive |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
| Dragalia Lost
(Co-developed with Nintendo EPD) |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | Yes | |
| Lost Order
(Co-developed with CyDesignation, PlatinumGames, Noisycroak) |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
| Uma Musume Pretty Derby |
|
|
Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
| Eiyuu Gakuen Hero-ka |
|
|
TBA | Yes | No |
- Granblue Fantasy is not formally available on app stores outside of Japan; however, the game client is fully localized into English with new updates on pace with Japanese content releases, there is no region locking and, so long as a user can navigate account creation in Japanese, the game can be freely accessed outside of Japan, and in-app purchases in currencies other than JPY are supported via PayPal or Google Play, meaning that the game and all features (save promotional events that require living in Japan) are available to English speakers.
Console games
| Title | Original release date | Publisher(s) | Platforms | JP | WW | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wondership Q
(JP: Airship Q, Co-developed with Miracle Positive Co., Ltd.) |
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PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Steam | Yes | Yes | |
| The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Viewing Resolution |
|
PlayStation 4 (PSVR) | Yes | No | ||
| Anubis: Zone of the Enders -- M∀RS |
|
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PlayStation 4, Steam | Yes | Yes | |
| Granblue Fantasy Project Re:Link
(Co-developed with PlatinumGames) |
|
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PlayStation 4 | Yes | Yes | |
| Project Awakening |
|
|
PlayStation 4 | Yes | Yes |
References
- 1 2 "Cygames – Corporate".
- ↑ "Cygames – Press". Cygames.
- ↑ "DeNA to buy into Cygames - Mobile World Live". 7 November 2012.
- ↑ staff, Gamasutra, GD mag. "The top 10 game developers of 2012".
- ↑ "株式会社CyDesignation". www.cydesignation.co.jp.
- ↑ "Rage of Bahamut Developer Cygames Establishes Anime Company".
- ↑ "Company - CygamesPictures". cygamespictures.co.jp.
- ↑ "Cygames Makes Anime Background Studio Kusanagi Its Subsidiary".
- ↑ "Cygames Announces "Project Awakening" for Current-Gen Home Consoles". 21 August 2016.
- ↑ "Cygames opens PS4-focused Osaka studio - Gematsu". 19 May 2015.
- ↑ "格闘ゲームプレイヤー・梅原大吾、 スネーク・アイズ、PRバルログとのスポンサー契約締結、 ならびに、「Cygames Beast」発足に関するお知らせ - 株式会社Cygames".
- ↑ "Cygames Jumps Into eSports By Signing Daigo Umehara, PR Balrog, And Snake Eyez". 2 March 2017.
- ↑ "Data" (PDF). www.nintendo.co.jp.
- ↑ "株式会社Cygames、音楽制作子会社を立ち上げ 株式会社Cymusic設立のお知らせ - 株式会社Cygames".
- ↑ Steparu. "Knights of Glory Released | Steparu.com". steparu.com. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ↑ "Odin Crown – Japanese studio announces new mobile MOBA | MMO Culture". mmoculture.com. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
External links
- Andriessen, CJ (12 Jul 2018), "Cygames has conquered mobile: Now it's coming for consoles", Destructoid