|
Zelda Video Game Series
is a media franchise, video game series created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is primarily developed and published by Nintendo; some portable installments and re-releases have been outsourced to Flagship (company), Flagship, Vanpool (company), Vanpool, Grezzo, and Tantalus Media. The series centers on the various incarnations of Link (The Legend of Zelda), Link, a courageous young man of the elf-like Hylian race, and Princess Zelda, a princess within the bloodline of the Hylia (The Legend of Zelda), goddess Hylia, as they fight to save the land of Universe of The Legend of Zelda#Hyrule, Hyrule from Ganon, an evil warlord turned demon king, who is the principal antagonist of the series. Ganon wishes to use the Triforce, a sacred relic left behind by the three goddesses that created Hyrule, to remake the world in his own dark image. When gathered together, the power of the Triforce can grant any wish its user desires, but if someone with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelda 2017
is a 2017 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. Set at the end of the Zelda timeline, ''Zelda'' timeline, the player controls an amnesiac Link (The Legend of Zelda), Link as he sets out to save Princess Zelda and prevent Calamity Ganon from destroying the world. Players explore the open world of Hyrule while they collect items and complete objectives such as puzzles and side quests. ''Breath of the Wild'' world is unstructured and encourages exploration and experimentation; the story can be completed in a Nonlinear gameplay, nonlinear fashion. Initially planned as a 2015 Wii U exclusive, ''Breath of the Wild'' released on March 3, 2017, for the Wii U and Nintendo Switch; an enhanced edition released on June 5, 2025 for Nintendo Switch 2. Development lasted five years, commencing immediately after the release of ''The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword'' in 2011. Led by director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma, Nintendo sought to rethink ''The Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo Switch
The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the Eighth generation of video game consoles, eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the Ninth generation of video game consoles, ninth generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox Series X/S. The Switch is a Tablet computer#Gaming tablet, tablet that can either be docking station, docked for home video game console, home console use or used as a handheld game console, portable device, making it a Video game console#Hybrid video game consoles, hybrid console. Its wireless Joy-Con controllers function as two halves of a standard controller and alternatively as individual controllers, featuring buttons, directional analog sticks for user input, motion sensing, and tactile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo EPD
abbreviated Nintendo EPD, is the largest division within the Japanese video game company Nintendo. The division focuses on developing and producing video games, mobile apps, and other related entertainment software for the company. Nintendo EPD was established in September 2015 after merging their Entertainment Analysis & Development and Software Planning & Development divisions. History The division was created on September 16, 2015, after the consolidation of two of Nintendo's former software divisions, Entertainment Analysis & Development (EAD) and Software Planning & Development (SPD), as part of a company-wide organizational restructure under Nintendo's newly appointed president, Tatsumi Kimishima. The division assumed both of its predecessors' roles, focusing on the development of games and software for Nintendo platforms and mobile devices; it also manages and licenses the company's various intellectual properties, alongside producing and supervising developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Ninja
is a Japanese video game developer and a division of Koei Tecmo. It was founded in 1995 as Tecmo Creative #3, a division of Tecmo headed by Tomonobu Itagaki. It is best known for franchises such as '' Ninja Gaiden'', ''Dead or Alive'' and '' Nioh''. History Founding, ''Dead or Alive'' and ''Ninja Gaiden'' (1995–2009) Team Ninja was formed by Tomonobu Itagaki as Tecmo Creative #3. The team was formed from a group of game designers working at Tecmo specifically for the purpose of creating the home versions of the fighting game series ''Dead or Alive''. During the mid-1990s, Japanese gaming company Tecmo was in financial trouble. Seeing how popular Sega's ''Virtua Fighter'' series was in Japan at the time, the management asked Tomonobu Itagaki to create a game similar to ''Virtua Fighter''. In order to stand out from other fighting games, Team Ninja focused on making ''Dead or Alive'' fast-paced and provocative. Itagaki believed that violence and sexuality were needed for "t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omega Force
(stylised as ''ω-Force'') is a Japanese video game developer and a division of Koei Tecmo, founded in 1996 by Akihiro Suzuki and Kenichi Ogasawara, and is best known for the ''Dynasty Warriors'' video games. History Omega Force was founded in 1996 as the fourth Business Division of Koei, to widen the appeal of Koei's portfolio outside of their strategy and simulation games, such as ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms (video game series), Romance of Three Kingdoms'' and ''Nobunaga's Ambition''. Kenichi Ogasawara originally joined Koei in hopes of being able to work on ''Nobunaga's Ambition'', of which he was a fan, as a planner. Due to his lack of programming skills he was assigned to a training course to become a programmer, whilst porting games from PC-98#Models, NEC PC-9801 to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES. Ogasawara, after being promoted to planner, was then tasked by Koei to create a 3D action game utilizing the technological capabilities of the PlayStat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monolith Soft
trade name, trading as Monolith Soft, is a Japanese Video game developer, video game development studio originally owned by Namco (later Bandai Namco) until being bought out by Nintendo in 2007, best known for the ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' series of games. The company was founded in 1999 by Tetsuya Takahashi with the support and cooperation of Masaya Nakamura (businessman), Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco. Their first project was the ''Xenosaga'' series, a spiritual successor to the Square (video game company), Square-developed ''Xenogears''. Multiple Square staff would join Takahashi at Monolith Soft including Hirohide Sugiura and Yasuyuki Honne. In addition to the ''Xenosaga'' series, Monolith Soft worked on other projects including ''Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, Baten Kaitos'' and ''Namco × Capcom'', the precursor to their later ''Project X Zone'' series, along with assisting on projects from other developers. While several of its games have release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grezzo
is a Japanese video game developer. It was founded in December 2006. Koichi Ishii, known for his work on the ''Mana (series), Mana'' series of games by Square Enix, was hired as CEO and president of the company in April 2007. The company's name comes from the Italian expression "", meaning 'a diamond in the rough'. Games References External links * {{Nintendo developers Amusement companies of Japan Video game companies of Japan Video game development companies Nintendo divisions and subsidiaries Video game companies established in 2006 Japanese companies established in 2006 Software companies based in Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanpool (company)
Vanpool, Inc. was an independent Japanese video game, music software, computer software and toy developer. Its employees included Taro Kudo and Kazuyuki Kurashima, both of whom worked for the independent game developer Love-de-Lic. The company was primarily known for its work on the ''Dillon's Rolling Western'' and ''Kirby Kirby may refer to: Buildings * Kirby Building, a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas, United States * Kirby Lofts, a building in Houston, Texas, United States * Kirby Hall, an Elizabethan country house near Corby, Northamptonshire, England * Kirby Ho ...'' series. Vanpool shut down on May 31, 2023. Games Games Developed Development Assistance References External links * Defunct companies of Japan Japanese companies established in 1999 Privately held companies of Japan Software companies based in Tokyo Defunct video game companies of Japan Video game development companies Video game companies established in 1999 Vanpool games Video game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flagship (company)
was an independent Japanese video game developer funded by Capcom, Nintendo, and Sega located in Chūō-ku, Osaka Japan that was founded by game designer Yoshiki Okamoto. Flagship had often created scenarios for new and existing products, and has developed for Nintendo several times on the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. Their final video game was '' Kirby: Squeak Squad'' for the Nintendo DS. History Flagship was founded by Yoshiki Okamoto on April 24, 1997. Funds and personnel for the startup were provided by Capcom, Sega, and Nintendo. The developer's first project was a series of episodic, Sega Saturn The is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8, 1995, in Europe. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, it is the successor to the succes ...-exclusive RPGs, but it was never released. In May 2007, Capcom announced that Flagship would cease to exist from June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capcom
is a Japanese video game company. It has created a number of critically acclaimed and List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being ''Resident Evil'', ''Monster Hunter'', ''Street Fighter'', ''Mega Man'', ''Devil May Cry'', ''Onimusha'', ''Dead Rising'', ''Dragon's Dogma'', ''Ace Attorney'', and ''Marvel vs. Capcom''. Established in 1979, it has become an international enterprise with subsidiaries in East Asia (Hong Kong), Europe (London, England), and North America (San Francisco, California). History Founding and arcade games (1979-1984) Capcom's predecessor, I.R.M. Corporation, was founded on May 30, 1979 by Kenzo Tsujimoto, who was still president of Irem, Irem Corporation when he founded I.R.M. He worked at both companies at the same time until leaving Irem in 1983. The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japan branch were I.R.M. and its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation Magic
Animation Magic () was a Russian-American animation studio founded in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1991, with offices later added in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 100%-owned subsidiary in Saint Petersburg, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders .... The company developed animations for CD-based software. It was acquired in December 1994 by Capitol Multimedia. The assets and rights that Capitol owned would be sold to Davidson & Associates in April 1997. By 1994 Animation Magic had 90 employees, including 12 software engineers and approximately 60 animators, computer graphic, background and sprite artists. Its products included '' Hotel Mario'', '' Link: The Faces of Evil'', '' Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon'', ''Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam'', ''Pyramid Adventures'', '' I.M. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epoch Co
In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era. The "epoch" serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The moment of epoch is usually decided by congruity, or by following conventions understood from the epoch in question. The epoch moment or date is usually defined from a specific, clear event of change, an ''epoch event''. In a more gradual change, a Point of no return, deciding moment is chosen when the ''epoch criterion'' was reached. Calendar eras Pre-modern eras * The Yoruba calendar (''Kọ́jọ́dá'') uses 8042 BC as the epoch, regarded as the year of the creation of Ile-Ife by the god Obatala, also regarded as the creation of the earth. * ''Anno Mundi'' [lit. "Year of the World"] (years since the creation of the world) is used in ** the Byzantine calendar (5509 BC). ** the Hebrew calendar (3761 BC). * The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar uses the creation of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
