Feelplus Inc. (株式会社フィールプラス Kabushiki gaisha Fiirupurasu) was a Japanese

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and a subsidiary of

AQ Interactive AQ Interactive, Inc. was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. AQ stands for Artistic Quality. It was the parent company of the developers Artoon, Cavia and feelplus, and most recently the U.S. publisher Xseed Games. AQ Interactive an ...

. The studio was conceived by

Microsoft Game Studios Xbox Game Studios (previously known as Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Microsoft Games) is an American video game publisher and part of the Microsoft Gaming division based in Redmond, Washington. It was established in March 2000, ...

specifically to aid

Mistwalker is an independent video game development studio. The company was founded in July 2004 by Hironobu Sakaguchi, best known for his work at Square including creating the ''Final Fantasy'' series. The company has created both game franchises such as ' ...

in video game development. It was founded by former UPL employees including Tsutomu Fujisawa as on May 1, 1992. Former employees of

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and

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later joined in. By September 2002, ''

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'' (later to become ''AQ Interactive'') bought the company. In May 2005, it became a fully owned subsidiary and ''Scarab'' changed its name to ''Feelplus Inc.'' On August 2010, Feelplus Inc.,

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 ...

and

were absorbed into

Games

;As Scarab *''

Survival Arts is a 1993 fighting arcade game developed by Scarab and published by Sammy. It uses digitized images of real actors with blood and gore, similar to Midway's arcade hit '' Mortal Kombat''. Ports for the Super NES and Sega Genesis were annou ...

'' (1993) *''

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'' (1994) *''

Battle Monsters is a versus fighting game developed by feelplus, Scarab for the Sega Saturn. It was originally published by Naxat Soft in Japan and later published in North America and Europe by Acclaim Entertainment. Similar to Atari Games, Atari's Pit-Fighte ...

'' (1995) *''

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'' (1996) *''Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua'' (1997) *'' Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' (1997) *'' Fighting Vipers 2'' (2001, Dreamcast port) ;As Feelplus *''

Lost Odyssey is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Feelplus and planned by Mistwalker for the Xbox 360. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2007 in Japan and 2008 in western territories. The story follows Kaim, one of a select group of ...

'' (2007) co-developed with

*''

Infinite Undiscovery is an action role-playing game developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix for the Xbox 360 in September 2008. It tells the story of the main character Capell and his journey to sever the chains that are holding the moon, with the help of ...

'' (2008) Visual production *'' Star Ocean: The Last Hope'' (2009) Visual production *'' Ju-On: The Grudge'' (2009) *'' No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise'' (2010) *''

Ninety-Nine Nights II , stylized as ''N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights'', is a role-playing video game with hack and slash game mechanics set in a high fantasy game universe, where a demon army is rising with one million troops. It is a sequel to ''Ninety-Nine Nights'' and wa ...

'' (2010) co-developed with

Q Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer. The studio created, produced, and published digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units. It was founded on October 10, 2003 by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, formerly of S ...

*''

MindJack is a third-person shooter video game developed by feelplus and published by Square Enix. The game was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on January 18, 2011 in North America, January 21, 2011 in Europe, January 27, 2011 in Japan and February ...

'' (2011) *''

Moon Diver , formerly known as ''Necromachina'', is a side-scrolling platforming video game developed by feelplus and published by Square Enix. It was released for the PSN on March 29, 2011, and the Xbox Live Arcade on May 4, 2011. Plot It is the dawn o ...

'' (2011)

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Official Scarab website
via

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Official Feelplus website
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Scarab
at

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Feelplus
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