is a Japanese

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established in 2011 by

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. Mobile and E-commerce company

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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

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platform, and from 2013 on Android and

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. The company headquarters is located in Tokyo while other divisions are located in

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and Saga in Japan and

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. Key

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include ''

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'' (2021), '' Princess Connect! Re:Dive'' (2018), ''

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'' (2016), ''

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'' (2014), ''

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'' (2011, with Bandai Namco Entertainment), and ''

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'' (2011). The company began development of

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in 2015. In 2016 Cygames announced the establishment of an anime studio

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. 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

, a Japanese web services company. In 2012,

purchased a 24% stake in Cygames. Shortly thereafter, the studio was chosen by

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as one of the top 10 game developers of the year. In June 2012, Cygames founded CyDesignation, a company specialized in Design, Illustration, Game planning and Game development. In March 2016, Cygames announced the establishment of its own anime production division and anime studio as a subsidiary known as

to do planning, production and animation both for Cygames own IPs and original anime projects as well. In June 2016, Cygames announced the acquisition of the gaming and anime background studio Kusanagi. In 2016, Cygames announced that it was developing ''

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'', its first large-format title for consoles as well as the establishment of their Osaka studio focused on console games. In May 2017, Cygames and Kodansha announced that they formed a partnership to launch a new label called Cycomi. The new label will release volumes in print distributed by Kodansha for manga already published online by Cygames on its digital manga website called Cycomics. However, in April 2019, Cygames formed a new partnership with

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. 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 ''

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'' players

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, Snake Eyez, and PR Balrog. 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. In May 2018, Cygames announced the establishment of a subsidiary for music production and artist management called Cymusic.

Games developed

Mobile/web browser games

Console games

References

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