Cygames
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 Cygames shares its headquarters building (in Shibuya) with its parent company, CyberAgent | |
Native name | 株式会社Cygames |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha Saigēmusu |
| Type | Subsidiary |
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| Founded | May 9, 2011 |
| Headquarters | Shibuya, Tokyo , Japan |
Number of locations | 4 |
Key people | Koichi Watanabe (President) |
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Number of employees | 2,461 (2019) |
| Parent | CyberAgent |
| Subsidiaries | BlazeGames Citail CyDesignation CygamesPictures Cygames Taiwan Cymusic Cysharp GameJeans Kusanagi LogicLinks Scoop Music Corporation WithEntertainment[1] |
| Website | cygames |
Cygames, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社Cygames, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Saigēmusu) 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, and Nintendo acquired another 5% stake in 2018, leaving CyberAgent with 69% of the shares and as such, they are the parent company of Cygames. From its formation, the company produced mobile games, initially on the Mobage platform, and from 2013 on Android and iOS. The company headquarters is located in Tokyo while other divisions are located in Osaka and Saga in Japan and Seoul, South Korea.
Key IPs include Rage of Bahamut (2011), The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls (2011, with Bandai Namco Entertainment), 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. The company also began funding anime for its mobile property and for new projects and adaptations for anime. The company also entered the manga, music and design market in the time period.
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 and app called Cycomics like the ones based on their property but also completely new ones.[11]
On June 8, 2017, Cygames and its parent company CyberAgent announced that they jointly established CA-Cygames Anime Fund”, a fund for investing in anime IP which will inject funds to the anime production committee to obtain the rights to stream anime videos on the Internet and produce games with a total amount of funds to be 3 billion yen.
In 2017, Cygames founded its esports team, Cygames Beast, with Street Fighter players Daigo Umehara, Snake Eyez, and PR Balrog.[12][13] 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.[14]
In May 2018, Cygames announced the establishment of a subsidiary for music production and artist management called Cymusic.[15]
Games developed[]
Mobile/web browser games[]
| Title | Original release date | Publisher(s) | Platforms | JP | WW | Notes / Remarks |
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| Rage of Bahamut |
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mobage | Yes | Closed | |
| The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls |
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mobage, Android, iOS, AndApp | Yes | No | |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Super Sentai Heroes |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Battle Spirits: Hasha no Houkou |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Sakatsuku S World Stars |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| TIGER & BUNNY Lord of Hero |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Sangokushi Puzzle Taisen |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Knights of Glory[16] |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| La Rudiaia Chronicle |
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mobage | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
| Granblue Fantasy |
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Yes | No[a] | |
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Android, iOS | Yes | Yes | Servers closed |
| LINE Paper Dash World |
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LINE GAME | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | Servers closed |
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Ameba | Yes | No | Servers closed |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Shadowverse |
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Android, iOS, DMM Games, Steam | Yes | Yes | |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | Servers closed |
| Princess Connect! Re:Dive |
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Android, iOS | Yes | Yes | |
| Dragalia Lost |
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Android, iOS | Yes | Yes | |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | |
| Uma Musume Pretty Derby |
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Android, iOS, DMM Games | Yes | No | |
| Idoly Pride |
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Android, iOS | Yes | No | Co-developed by QualiArts |
| Eiyuu Gakuen Hero-ka |
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TBA | Yes | No | |
| Untitled Cygames crossover game |
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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 |
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PlayStation Vita, Steam | Yes | Yes |
| The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Viewing Revolution |
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PlayStation 4 (PSVR) | Yes | Yes |
| Anubis: Zone of the Enders -- M∀RS |
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PlayStation 4, Steam | Yes | Yes |
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PlayStation 4, Steam | Yes | Yes |
| Shadowverse: Champion's Battle[19] |
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Nintendo Switch | Yes | Yes |
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PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 | Yes | Yes |
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PlayStation 4 | Yes | Yes |
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Console | Yes | Yes |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "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.
- ^ "Granblue Fantasy's Cygames, Kodansha Launch Manga Label". Anime News Network. 28 May 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Jump up to: a b The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls Viewing Revolution coming west on July 18, Gematsu, July 17, 2017
- ^ "Shadowverse: Champion's Battle launches November 5 in Japan, debut trailer and details". Gematsu. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
External links[]
- Official website
- Andriessen, CJ (12 Jul 2018), "Cygames has conquered mobile: Now it's coming for consoles", Destructoid
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