Koei Tecmo announced today with a press release that a merger with its former subsidiary Gust, developer of the Atelier series and of the upcoming Ar Nosurge, will be executed on October 1st
Interesting email from Koei Tecmo which states that the company based in Yokohama, Japan seeks civil litigation for IP infringement with regards to assets used by YOUZU (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD from the game series “Nobunaga’s Ambition” and “Taiko Risshiden”. According to the email it seems that YOUZU PTE.LTD used music and other assets from those series in its own marketing campaigns online for their game app the “Defendant App”.
Koei Tecmo is establishing a new AAA studio this April that will be creating a game "independent from existing brands."
Koei Tecmo's Integrated Report 2023 published this morning alongside the company's financial results includes interesting insight from veteran Yosuke Hayashi.
Nice merger in my opinion people.
If it means more budget for atelier games, this is awesome.
Here i am hoping if by even a little strand of miracle they would port a localized FATAL FRAME V for the PS4/Xbox, godh how i miss that game.
To be honest Koei Tecmo really needed this, it's time for them to become a bigger factor in japanese gaming because the past years they've been pretty much irrelevant.
Interesting. I wonder how this merger will go.