Arkedo Studio was a French independent

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, founded in

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

by Camille Guermonprez and Aurélien Régard. The company released their first game, ''

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'' for the

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, in

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

. They followed that game with

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

's ''

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''—also for DS, and then later ''OMG: Our Manic Game'' for

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. The company's founding goal was to be "as small as possible", while still creating "'real' games - in boxes, with a manual". The company's owners have sought to retain the rights to their

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; as of January 2010, they continue to hold them all. On February 23, 2013 it was announced that the studio is shutting down.

Games developed

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Hell Yeah! developer Arkedo Studio disbands
News about studio shutdown {{Arkedo Studio Video game development companies Defunct video game companies of France Companies based in Paris Video game companies established in 2006 Video game companies disestablished in 2013