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Arzest Corporation (Japanese: アーゼスト, Hepburn: Āzesuto) is a Japanese video game development company that develops games for video game consoles. It was formed on June 25, 2010 by key members of
Artoon Artoon Co., Ltd. (株式会社アートゥーン Kabushiki-Gaisha Ātūn) was a Japanese video game developer established in 1999. It became a subsidiary of AQ Interactive in May 2004 and became a wholly owned subsidiary in June 2005. The team w ...
, which was also founded by Executive Vice President
Naoto Ohshima (born February 26, 1964) is a Japanese artist and video game designer, best known for designing Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman characters from Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise. Although Yuji Naka created ...
, best known as the character designer of
Sonic the Hedgehog is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...
, as well as his nemesis
Dr. Eggman Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is the main antagonist of Sega's '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise. Eggman was created and designed by Naoto Ohshima as part of many design choices for Sega's new mascot. After the creation of Sonic the Hedgehog, Oh ...
. Arzest was also founded by key Artoon and
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members who worked on the ''
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'' series.


Company profile

They were recruited by Nintendo to work on mini-games in '' Wii Play: Motion'' for the
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. According to their portion of the credits of the game, as many as a dozen of former Artoon and
Sega is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its international branches, Sega of America and Sega Europe, are headquartered in Irvine, California and London, r ...
employees now work at Arzest. They worked on additional new features of one of the main
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built-in software applications ''
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'', such as adding
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features to Puzzle Swap among others. Arzest has since released several retail games on the 3DS: ''
Yoshi's New Island ''Yoshi's New Island'' is a 2014 platform game developed by Arzest and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. First released in Europe and North America in March 2014, ''Yoshi's New Island'' is a retcon of the events ...
'' in 2014, ''
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is a crossover sports and party game in the ''Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games'' series, released for the Nintendo 3DS in February 2016 in Japan, March 2016 in North America, and in April 2016 for Europe and Australia, and for the Wii U world ...
'' in 2016, and ''
Hey! Pikmin ''Hey! Pikmin'' is an action game in the ''Pikmin'' series developed by Arzest and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld video game console. It is a standalone sequel to ''Pikmin 3'' and is the series' first installment on a handh ...
'' in 2017.


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*{{officialwebsite, http://www.arzest.jp/english/index.html Privately held companies of Japan Video game companies of Japan Video game development companies Video game companies established in 2010 Japanese companies established in 2010 Companies based in Yokohama