Artoon Co., Ltd. (株式会社アートゥーン Kabushiki-Gaisha Ātūn) was a Japanese

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established in 1999. It became a subsidiary of AQ Interactive in May 2004 and became a wholly owned subsidiary in June 2005. The team was primarily affiliated in the United States with Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360 projects, although they had also worked with

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and

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on other platforms. Key Artoon personnel include Yoji Ishii, Manabu Kusunoki, Hidetoshi Takeshita, Yutaka Sugano, Masamichi Harada,

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and Naoto Ohshima. When the company formed, it drew personnel and talent from several of

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's development teams, particularly those which worked on ''

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'' (created by Ōshima), and '' Panzer Dragoon''. The developer had approximately 85 employees. The company's focus was to create original game content for various consoles. Artoon became defunct when the parent company, AQ Interactive, filed for bankruptcy. Artoon was situated in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture,

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. A secondary studio was maintained in Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan. Artoon, along with feelplus and Cavia, were all absorbed into parent company AQ Interactive.

Games developed

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{{Artoon Defunct video game companies of Japan Video game companies established in 1999 Video game companies disestablished in 2010 Video game development companies Japanese companies established in 1999 Japanese companies disestablished in 2010 AQ Interactive